Spatial and financial fixes and the global financial crisis: does labour have the knowledge and power to meet the challenge?
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2013, 32 (6), pp. 690 - 704
- Issue Date:
- 2013-01
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Five years after the global financial crisis, and trillions of dollars in stimulus spending later, the crisis not only remains unresolved, but risks entering a new deeper phase in southern Europe. The global turbulence, although experienced with differing degrees of intensity and dislocation around the world, manifests as high unemployment, industrial slow-down, extensive austerity measures and a range of health and financial pressures passed on to working and unemployed people. One response by governments has been a renewed emphasis on `skill as a means to work through the crisis and reposition the national economy for a post-crisis world. This paper questions this emphasis suggesting that if skill is the answer then the wrong question is being asked. The concept of `fixes is used to examine changes in production and work, before discussing the limitations of organized labours response to the crisis. The crisis poses questions to the labour movement about its understanding of the changes taking place in the economy, and therefore work, and the alternatives it could be advocating for new less crisis-prone ways of governing the production of goods and services, and the education that might support that.
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