After '08 : social policy and the global financial crisis / edited by Stephen McBride, Rianne Mahon, and Gerard W. Boychuk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boychuk, Gerard William, 1967- editor.

Mahon, Rianne, 1948- editor.

McBride, Stephen, 1947- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Social aspects.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Political aspects.

Social policy--Economic aspects.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2015]

Summary:

Did the 2007-08 global financial crisis mark a turning point for social policy, or did it reinforce existing neo-liberal approaches to governance?.

Contents:

Intro

After '08

Title page

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Context

1 Neo-Liberalism in Question?

2 Broadening the Frame

3 A New Era for Social Policy?

Part 2: International Organizations

4 Understanding Policy Change as Position-Taking

5 The ILO and Social Protection Policy after the Global Financial Crisis

6 The ILO, Greece, and Social Dialogue in the Aftermath of the GFC

7 It Takes Two to Tango

Part 3: Emerging Areas

8 Integrating the Social into CEPAL's Neo-Structuralist Discourse

9 The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Mexican Social Policy

10 Social Policy in South Africa

11 In the Shadow of Crisis

Part 4: Global North

12 Global Crisis and Social Policy in Peripheral Europe

13 Austerity Budgets and Public Sector Retrenchment

14 Austerity Lite

15 US Incremental Social Policy Expansionism in Response to Crisis

Conclusion

Contributors

Index

Copyright Page.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-7748-2966-4

OCLC:

957126498