Framing Austerity: Print Media Portrayals of the Public Sector During the Irish Financial Crisis

by Aileen Marron

This monograph examines the ways in which discourses on the public sector were articulated in the print media during the 2011 financial crisis in the Irish, UK and European news media. It finds that coverage of the public sector was ideological, portraying public sector workers as overpaid, inefficient, and sheltered from the worst of the crisis. These explanations perpetuated the view that there was a need for austerity through cutbacks to public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786611058
• ISBN13: 9781786611055
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"