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Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction Critical Perspectives on Corporatization
Corporatization as Arm’s Length Administration
Corporatization as Expanding Managerial Control and “Business-Like” Organization
Corporatization as Public-Private Integration
The Public-Private Divide: Neoliberal Corporatization as a Deeply Political Process
Volume Outline
Looking Ahead
Health Care
1 — Healthy Profit Private Finance and Public Hospitals
Introduction
Corporatization and the Canadian Health Care System
P3s and Public Health Care Corporatization
Leading P3 Corporate/Private Actors
Private Partners: Construction and Engineering Firms
Private Partners: Financiers
Private Partners: Operations and Maintenance Providers
Local Companies
Conclusion
2 — Three Waves of Health Care Corporatization in Ontario Hospitals
Introduction: A Mickey Mouse Idea
The First Wave: Distinguishing between “Core” and “Ancillary” Services
The Second Wave: Consolidation, Consultancies, and the Loss of Community Control
The Third Wave: Market-Based Funding, Service Consolidation, Public-Private Partnerships, and Mega-Mergers
Conclusion
Education
3 — The Rise of the Corporate Cashroom Corporatization and the Neoliberal Canadian School
Introduction
Corporatization and Public Education
Youth News Network: A Case Study in Commercialism
A Shift in Tactics
Educating the Educators: Schools and the “Real World”
Financial Literacy
Conclusion
4 — Carbon Capital and Corporate Influence Mapping Elite Networks of Corporations, Universities, and Research Institutes
Introduction
Mapping Carbon Capital’s Reach into Universities and Research Institutes
University Governance and Corporate Elite
Research Institutes
Mapping Fossil Knowledge Networks in Alberta
Conclusion
5 — International Students as a Market in Canadian Public Education
Introduction
Education as a Global Commodity
Corporatizing International Student Recruitment in British Columbia
Turning Overseas Schools into Profitable Businesses—Or Not
International Students Increasingly Fund Public Universities and Colleges
Weighing Benefits—Or Not
The Education World Is Not Flat
6 — How and Why to Change the Ways We Try to Change the Corporatization of Canada’s Universities1
Introduction
What Is a Social Relations Approach?
Three Strategies Based in Cause-and-Effect Thinking
Staying Grounded in a Social Relations Approach
Criminal Justice
7 — Police Foundations and the Corporatization of Criminal Justice in Canada
Introduction
Corporatization in Context
Public Policing and Corporatization: The Case of Police Foundations
Conclusion
8 — Do Construction Companies Create Criminal Justice Policy? Reflections on the Nature of Corporate Power in the Canadian State
Introduction
State Theories and the “Grey Zone of Publicness”
Keeping Up with Management Fads
Prisons and Labour Market Discipline
Conclusion: Saving the State?
9 — Corporatizing Therapeutic Justice The Case of the Winnipeg Drug Treatment Court
Introduction
Theorizing Corporatization
The Winnipeg Drug Treatment Court
Mechanisms of Corporate Governance in the WDTC
Organizational Structure
Performance Indicators
Front Line Service: Corporatizing Court Culture
Conclusion
Policy-Making
10 — Corporatization and Federal-Provincial Relations
Introduction
Forms of State and Forms of Federalism
Narrowing the Social Policy Discourse
New Forms of Hierarchy
Executive Control Over Outcomes
Conclusion
11 — Corporatizing Urban Policy-Making Management Consultants, Service Reviews, and Municipal Restructuring
Introduction
Management Consulting as State-Corporate Symbiosis
City Politics as Corporate Decision-Making
Segmenting and Circulating Corporate Knowledge
Conclusion
Civil Society and the Non-Profit Sector
12 — Managerialism and Outsourcing: Corporatizing Social Services in Canada’s Non-Profit Sector
Introduction
NPM and Managerialism in the Context of NPSS Corporatization
Precarity, Gender, and Unpaid Work
Eroding Participatory Practices
Social Participation
Flexibility and the Ability to Respond to New and Long-Standing Social Needs
Advocacy and the Capacity to Stand Outside of Government and Offer Critique
Resistance in the Non-Profit Sector
Conclusion
13 — The Corporatization of Food Charity in Canada Implications for Domestic Hunger, Poverty Reduction, and Public Policy
Introduction
Corporate Food Charity and Public Policy
Origins and Institutionalization of Canada’s Food Bank Movement
The Corporatization of Charitable Food Banking in Canada
National Restructuring, Management, and Funding
Professional Sports and the Music Industry
The Media and the CBC
The Consequences of Corporatization for Poverty Reduction and Public Policy
Public Perceptions: Governments Looking the Other Way
The Effectiveness of Corporate Food Charity
Social Values and Corporate Social Responsibility
From Income Assistance to Food Assistance
Public Utilities and Resource Governance
14 — Pipelines, Regulatory Capture, and Canada’s National Energy Board
Introduction
The Corporatization of the National Energy Board
The Introduction of Bill C-38: New Modes of Regulatory Efficiency and Managerial Control
Regulatory Capture and the Revolving Door
The “Pipeline Cops”: Treating Companies as Customers
Business as Usual Under the Trudeau Liberals?
Conclusion
15 — Murky Waters When Governments Turn Water Management into a Business
The Growing Water Crisis in Canada
The Corporatization of Water
Commercializing Canadian Water Services and Nestlé’s Bottled Water Takings
Public-Private Partnerships (P3s)
Commodifying Water Through Trade Agreements
Resisting Corporatization: Protecting Water as a Human Right, Commons, and Public Trust
16 — Learning from Corporatization The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Introduction
The Problems of Neoliberal Corporatization
Exacerbating Myopia
Commodification
Progressive Corporatization?
Lessons for Canada
Contributors’ Biographies
Notes
Index
Copyright
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