Unmasking austerity
Subtitle: opposition and alternatives in Europe and North America
By: by Dexter Whitfield
Publisher: Spokesman
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Nottingham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780851248417; 9780851248325
Subjects: Public Debts; Budget deficits; Financial crises; Economic policy; Fiscal policy; Economic development
Other titles: Opposition and alternatives in Europe and North America
Description: "Unmasking Austerity: Opposition and Alternatives in Europe and North America exposes how austerity policies have fuelled the fire of recession rather than stimulating growth. It identifies key lessons from organising and action against such policies, and urges a rethink of trade union, community and social movement strategies to overcome austerity. Unmasking Austerity examines the deeper causes of the financial crisis, and exposes the manufactured crises which are being used to dismantle hard-earned labour rights and the welfare state. A radical alternative strategy includes economic stimulus, reconstruction of public services, faster fundamental reform of banks and financial markets, the elimination of corporate welfare that enriches big business, and strategies to increase labour's share of national income." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-128)
Table of contents: title: 1. Unmasking austerity; title: 2. Opposing austerity: organising and action strategies; title: 3. Alternatives to austerity : investment, innovation and reconstruction; title: 4. Exposing causes, contradictions and conflicts.