Divided Province: Ontario Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism 9780773555679

Table of contents :
Cover
DIVIDED PROVINCE
Title
Copyright
Contents
Tables, Figures, and Maps
Preface
1 Divided Province: Democracy and the Politics of State Restructuring in Ontario
PART ONE THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEOLIBERALISM IN ONTARIO
2 The Ontario Growth Model: The “End of the Road” or a “New Economy”?
3 The Geography of the Ontario Service Economy
4 A Neoliberal Pause? The Auto and Manufacturing Sectors in Ontario since Free Trade
5 Northern Ontario and the Crisis of Development and Democracy
PART TWO TRANSFORMING THE ONTARIO STATE
6 New Bargains? Ontario and Federalism in the Neoliberal Period
7 Gendering State: Women and Public Policy in Ontario
8 Municipal Neoliberalism and the Ontario State
9 Class, Power, and Neoliberal Employment Policy in Ontario
PART THREE CONSOLIDATING THE NEOLIBERAL POLICY REGIME IN ONTARIO
10 Poverty and Policy in Ontario: You Can’t Eat Good Intentions
11 Reforming Health Services in Ontario: Contradictions
12 Competing Policy Paradigms and the Search for Sustainability in Ontario Electricity Policy
13 Schooling Goes to Market: The Consolidation of Lean Education in Ontario
PART FOUR DEMOCRATIC POLITICS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
14 Colonialism, Indigenous Struggles, and the Ontario State
15 Unequal Futures: Race and Class under Neoliberalism in Ontario
16 The Democratic Imagination in Ontario and Participatory Budgeting
17 The Challenges of Union Political Action in the Era of Neoliberalism
Contributors
Index