Jobs with Inequality: Financialization, Post-Democracy, and Labour Market Deregulation in Canada Contributor(s): Peters, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442646195 ISBN-13: 9781442646193 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2022 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Canadian - Political Science | Comparative Politics - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 339.209 |
LCCN: 2023275038 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.70 lbs) 472 pages |
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Publisher Description: Income inequality has skyrocketed in Canada over the past decades. The rich have become richer, while the average household income has deteriorated and job quality, plummeted. Common explanations for these trends point to globalization, technology, or other forces largely beyond our control. But as Jobs with Inequality shows, there is nothing inevitable about inequality. Rather, runaway inequality is the result of politics and policies, and what governments have done to aid the rich and boost finance, and what has not done to uphold the interests of workers. Drawing on new tax and income data, John Peters tells the story of how inequality is unfolding in Canada today by examining post-democracy, financialization, and labour market deregulation. Timely and novel, the book explains how and why business and government have rewritten the rules of the economy to the advantage of the few, and considers why progressive efforts to reverse these trends have so regularly run aground. |