The Experience of Middle Australia :The Dark Side of Economic Reform

Publication subTitle :The Dark Side of Economic Reform

Author: Michael Pusey  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2003

E-ISBN: 9780511060038

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521651219

Subject: C91 Sociology

Keyword: 社会学

Language: ENG

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The Experience of Middle Australia

Description

This book puts middle Australia under the microscope, examining how quality of life is faring in the face of change and uncertainty. 400 Australians from around the country shared their experiences of work, family, and community for this book, creating a striking picture of Australian society into a new millennium. This lived experience is set against hard data so that we can truly understand the impact - good and bad - of economic restructuring on the broad Australian middle class. Meticulously researched, it mounts a moral and intellectual counter-argument to economic reform. A sequel to the best-selling Economic Rationalism in Canberra, Michael Pusey's book will be equally important.

Chapter

Economic Reform: Where Did It Come From?

Who Are the Reformers?

Warnings?

Approach and Method

2 Incomes and Their Meanings

What’s Happened to the Incomes of the Broad Middle?

Feeling the Pinch?

Does Middle Australia Know What Is Happening to Its Income?

Winners and Losers?

Is It Fair? The Latent Politics of Income Distribution

Pointers and Conclusions

3 Jobs, Work and Fairness in the Wake of Labour Market Reform

What? More Labour Market Reform?

Two Angry Middle Australias?

Two ‘classes’, two middle Australias?

Educational attainment

Two angry middle Australias: same but (structurally) different

Who is reconciled to economic reform?

A Double Assault on the Willing?

Looking for the Culprits

Resentment towards elites

Broken promises

Conclusion

4 Working Families: Struggling with the Costs of Reform

It’s Hurting…

Families Caught in the Middle

Women, Work, Rights and Choices

Lost Restraints, Lost Disciplines and Invidious Choices

Family Experience across the Generations

Conclusions and Pointers

5 Civil Society and Communities

The Breakdown of Community?

Social Capital and Volunteering

The Structure of Society: Recognition, Denial and Egalitarian Aspiration

The Media

Trust

Conclusions

6 Politics, Power and Institutions

The Power of Big Business

Institutional ‘Reform’

Towards Active Government?

Who Is to Blame?

In Conclusion and with Hindsight…

7 Judgements on Economic Reform

Time

Globalisation

Practical Moralities

Legitimacy (and Trust)

Finally…

Appendix A: Chronology of Economic Reform

Appendix B: Methods and Procedures

Appendix C: Supplementary Tables

Appendix D: Income and Equivalent Household Income

Notes

Abbreviations

Chapter 1: The Experience of Economic Reform

Chapter 2: Incomes and Meanings

Chapter 3: Jobs, Work and Fairness

Chapter 4: Working Families

Chapter 5: Civil Society and Communities

Chapter 6: Politics, Power and Institutions

Chapter 7: Judgements on Economic Reform

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Index

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