Donna Baines holds the Chair in Social Work and Policy Studies and is a Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this appointment, she taught labour studies and social work for 15 years at McMaster University. In 2006-07, she was Visiting Scholar, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Donna’s teaching interests include social movements and advocacy, social policy, globalization and restructuring and social justice. Her research interests focus on the impact of restructuring on work in the human services, particularly in the social services; race, class, and gender in everyday social service work; social services work and unions; caring labour; radical social work practice and theory including feminist social work; gendered and racialized impacts of restructuring work, particularly in the social services; anti-racist social work; post modern social work; women and social policy; and structural social work. Donna has published extensively, in a wide variety of areas, including restructuring, health and safety, bullying, the organization of work for social workers, and social service public policy. Her articles have appeared in Social Work, Journal of Health and Safety, Women and Work, Australian Social Work, Social Justice and Studies in Political Economy, among several other journals. Donna is also editor of Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice. Building Transformative, Politicized Social Work. Donna is also a board member of Ferncliff Daycare and After School Programme, as well as a member in Canadian Association of Schools of Social Work, Progressive Economics Forum, Society for Socialist Studies, National Activist School Planning Project and Flying Flamingo Sisters.

: Introduction (Donna Baines & Stephen McBride)
: PART 1: A CONTEXT OF AUSTERITY
: “In Austerity We Trust” (Stephen McBride)
: Structural Adjustment for the North (Robert O’Brien & Falin Zhang)
: The Strategic Use of Budget Crisis (Ellen Russell)
: Neoliberalism, Inequality and Austerity in Rich World Democracies (John Peters)
: PART 2: CONTRADICTIONS
: Austerity, Gender Equality and Canadian Unions (Linda Briskin with Sue Genge, Margaret McPhail & Marion Pollack)
: Social Democracy in the New Age of Austerity (Bryan Evans)
: Neoliberalism and Austerity as Class Struggle (Eric Pineault)
: PART 3: INSECURITIES
: Bridging the Gap (Wayne Lewchuk, Sam Vrankulj & Michelynn Laflèche)
: Austerity Now, Poverty Later (Rachel Zhou)
: Austerity, Job Training and Aboriginal People (Shauna MacKinnon)
: Minority Nationalism in a Time of Austerity (Peter Graefe & Brent Toye)
: PART 4: PUBLIC SECTOR: TARGETS AND RESISTANCE
: P3s and the Value for Money Illusion (Heather Whiteside)
: Ideology in the Classroom (Andy Hanson)
: Care Work in the Non-Profits (Donna Baines)
: Why Austerity? (Jim Stanford)
: Bibliography