Divided province : Ontario politics in the age of neoliberalism /
Divided province : Ontario politics in the age of neoliberalism /
edited by Greg Albo and Bryan M. Evans.
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Ontario growth model : the "end of the road" or a "new economy"? / The geography of the Ontario service economy / A neoliberal pause? The auto and manufacturing sectors in Ontario since free trade / Northern Ontario and the crisis of development and democracy / New bargains? Ontario and federalism in the neoliberal period / Gendering state : women and public policy in Ontario / Municipal neoliberalism and the Ontario state / Class, power, and neoliberal employment policy in Ontario / Poverty and policy in Ontario : you can't eat good intentions / Reforming health services in Ontario : contradictions / Competing paradigms : the search for sustainability in Ontario electricity policy / Schooling goes to market : the consolidation of lean education in Ontario / Colonialism, Indigenous struggles, and the Ontario state / Unequal futures : race and class under neoliberalism in Ontario / The democratic imagination in Ontario and participatory budgeting / The challenges of union political action in the era of neoliberalism / John Peters -- Steven Tufts -- Dimitry Anastakis -- David Leadbeater -- Robert Drummond -- Tammy Findlay -- Carlo Fanelli -- Charles Smith -- Peter Graefe and Carol-Anne Hudson -- Hugh Armstrong and Pat Armstrong -- Mark Winfield and Becky MacWhirter -- Alan Sears and James Cairns -- Jamie Lawson -- Grace-Edward Galabuzi -- Terry Maley -- Stephanie Ross.
"No government jurisdiction in Canada has so radically transformed its public policies over the past decades as Ontario, and yet the province has also maintained a striking degree of political stability in its party system. Since the 1990s, neoliberalism has been the point of reference in constructing policy agendas for all of Ontario's political parties. It has guided the strategy for governance of the dominant Liberal Party since 2003, even as it divides the province between workers and employers, north and south, rural and urban, and racialized minorities and the majority population. With a focus on the governments of Mike Harris, Dalton McGuinty, and Kathleen Wynne, Divided Province brings together leading researchers to dissect the province's public policies since the 1990s. Presenting original, state-of-the art research, the book demonstrates that, although the Conservative government of Mike Harris implemented the sharpest and most profound shift towards the establishment of a neoliberal regime in the province, the subsequent Liberal governments consolidated that neoliberal turn. The essays inside this volume explore the consequences of this ideological turn across a spectrum of policies, including health, education, poverty, energy, employment, manufacturing, and how it has impacted workers, women, First Nations, and other distinct communities. The first book to offer a comprehensive critical account of neoliberalism in Ontario, Divided Province overturns conventional readings of the province's politics and suggests that building a more democratic and egalitarian alternative to the current orthodoxy requires nothing less than a radical rupture from existing policies and political alliances. Without such a decisive break, political space may well open up again for the populist right."--
9780773555679
20189054050 can
(AMICUS)000045303290
Neoliberalism--History--Ontario--20th century.
Neoliberalism--History--Ontario--21st century.
Electronic Books.
JC574 / .D585 2018
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Ontario growth model : the "end of the road" or a "new economy"? / The geography of the Ontario service economy / A neoliberal pause? The auto and manufacturing sectors in Ontario since free trade / Northern Ontario and the crisis of development and democracy / New bargains? Ontario and federalism in the neoliberal period / Gendering state : women and public policy in Ontario / Municipal neoliberalism and the Ontario state / Class, power, and neoliberal employment policy in Ontario / Poverty and policy in Ontario : you can't eat good intentions / Reforming health services in Ontario : contradictions / Competing paradigms : the search for sustainability in Ontario electricity policy / Schooling goes to market : the consolidation of lean education in Ontario / Colonialism, Indigenous struggles, and the Ontario state / Unequal futures : race and class under neoliberalism in Ontario / The democratic imagination in Ontario and participatory budgeting / The challenges of union political action in the era of neoliberalism / John Peters -- Steven Tufts -- Dimitry Anastakis -- David Leadbeater -- Robert Drummond -- Tammy Findlay -- Carlo Fanelli -- Charles Smith -- Peter Graefe and Carol-Anne Hudson -- Hugh Armstrong and Pat Armstrong -- Mark Winfield and Becky MacWhirter -- Alan Sears and James Cairns -- Jamie Lawson -- Grace-Edward Galabuzi -- Terry Maley -- Stephanie Ross.
"No government jurisdiction in Canada has so radically transformed its public policies over the past decades as Ontario, and yet the province has also maintained a striking degree of political stability in its party system. Since the 1990s, neoliberalism has been the point of reference in constructing policy agendas for all of Ontario's political parties. It has guided the strategy for governance of the dominant Liberal Party since 2003, even as it divides the province between workers and employers, north and south, rural and urban, and racialized minorities and the majority population. With a focus on the governments of Mike Harris, Dalton McGuinty, and Kathleen Wynne, Divided Province brings together leading researchers to dissect the province's public policies since the 1990s. Presenting original, state-of-the art research, the book demonstrates that, although the Conservative government of Mike Harris implemented the sharpest and most profound shift towards the establishment of a neoliberal regime in the province, the subsequent Liberal governments consolidated that neoliberal turn. The essays inside this volume explore the consequences of this ideological turn across a spectrum of policies, including health, education, poverty, energy, employment, manufacturing, and how it has impacted workers, women, First Nations, and other distinct communities. The first book to offer a comprehensive critical account of neoliberalism in Ontario, Divided Province overturns conventional readings of the province's politics and suggests that building a more democratic and egalitarian alternative to the current orthodoxy requires nothing less than a radical rupture from existing policies and political alliances. Without such a decisive break, political space may well open up again for the populist right."--
9780773555679
20189054050 can
(AMICUS)000045303290
Neoliberalism--History--Ontario--20th century.
Neoliberalism--History--Ontario--21st century.
Electronic Books.
JC574 / .D585 2018