Against the Terror of Neoliberalism or Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills

Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics beyond the Age of Greed

Author: Henry A Giroux

With its dream worlds of power, commercialization, and profit making, neoliberalism has ushered in new Gilded Age in which the logic of the market now governs every aspect of media, culture, and social life—from schooling to health care to old age. As the social contract becomes a distant memory, the new 'corporate state' distances itself from workers and minority groups, who become more disposable in a new age of uncertainty and manufactured fear.

This is the only book to connect the history, ideology, and consequences of neoliberal policies to education and cultural issues that pervade almost every aspect of daily life.

A significantly revised and updated new version of Giroux's 2003 book, The Terror of Neoliberalism, this book points to ways in which neoliberal ideology can be resisted, and how new forms of citizenship and collective struggles can be forged, to reclaim the meaning both of a substantive politics and of a democratic society.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: Slouching Toward Bethlehem     1
The Emerging Authoritarianism in the United States: Political Culture Under the Bush/Cheney Administration     15
Spectacles of Race and Pedagogies of Denial     60
Disabling the Future: Youth in the Age of Market Fundamentalism     84
Neoliberalism as Public Pedagogy     112
The Politics of Hope in Dangerous Times     130
Against Neoliberal Common Sense: Rethinking Cultural Politics and Public Pedagogy in Dark Times     147
Notes     181
Index     218
About the Author     226

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Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills

Author: National Fire Protection Association

The Second Edition features a laser-like focus on fire fighter injury prevention, including a dedicated chapter on safety. Reducing fire fighter injuries and deaths requires the dedicated efforts of every fire fighter, of every fire department, and of the entire fire community working together. It is with this goal in mind that we have integrated the 16 Fire Fighter Life Safety Initiatives developed by the National Fallen Fire Fighter Foundation into Chapter 2, Fire Fighter Safety. In most of the chapters, actual National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System cases are discussed to drive home important points about safety and the lessons learned from those real-life incidents. It is our profound hope that this textbook will contribute to the goal of reducing line-of-duty deaths by 25 percent in the next 5 years.