Behind Toronto's SARS crisis of 2003 lay a broader social crisis. The SARS outbreaks in the city shone a harsh light on the inadequacies and outright failures of neoliberal health policies and practices. The crisis, and government responses to it, also clearly showed the extent to which right-wing governments prioritize business security above health and social security of workers.
This paper examines how the French pensions strikes of 2003 were defeated by a government strategy of concertation and consultation. It argues that this defeat is also hastening a process of union realignment that is increasingly taking place around the identities of social partner and social movement.
This article is intended to stimulate discussion on alternatives to neoliberal strategies of welfare-state restructuring. The authors discuss the emergence of the Danish 'welfare-through-work' model of socio-economic governance, analyse the importance of Job Rotation as its leading edge strategy, highlight recent conflicts and tensions within that strategy and, lastly, suggest lessons for Britain.
Marxian approaches to the business cycle need to involve an interplay of real and financial factors. Post-Keynesians are good on analysing modern financial systems, but mistaken in believing that the business cycle is attributable only to financial instability.
Heralded, with no apparent irony, as The Communist Manifesto for our time, the dense but elliptical Empire has achieved almost iconic status among Left academics and activists since it was published in 2000. This essay shifts the focus from the text itself to the Italian Marxist tradition of autonomia from which Negri's thinking has evolved.
The New Labour Government's New Deal for Communities attempts to stitch neoliberal urban policy onto Area Based Initiatives that involve the local community. In Newcastle upon Tyne, this combination resulted in several fault-lines and considerable local conflict. The locus of power was not in the community but in the partner agencies.
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