Contents: Introduction 1 Gary Craig 1 The rise of right-wing populism and the implications for health care during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond 10 Russell Mannion and Ewen Speed 2 Social injustice in consolidated authoritarian regimes: responding to the COVID-19 pandemic 23 Colin Knox, Saltanat Janenova, and Hyesong Ha 3 Racism and the far right 45 Amin Sharifi Isaloo 4 The labour market and the ‘race to the bottom’: the UK Living Wage campaign as an alternative 65 Calum Carson 5 Fairness in the platform economy: lessons learnt from a pandemic 82 Adam Badger, Alessio Bertolini, Mark Graham, and Funda Ustek Spilda 6 Just transition in practice: lessons from the EU’s pathway to a socially fair green transition 111 Joan Miró 7 Social justice, neoliberalism and food charity: insights from Aotearoa/New Zealand 131 Katharine Cresswell Riol 8 Authoritarianism and theocracy in the 21st century: far-right Christianity and social counter-movements in America 152 Serena Clark and Chelsea Wilkinson 9 The third sector amid welfare state restructuring: the implications for social justice in an era of permanent austerity 173 Keith A. O’Neill 10 No shelter from the storm: the growing challenges of housing precarity for older women during the COVID-19 pandemic 194 Audrey Tung and Denise Cloutier 11 Child well-being and social justice: findings from a multinational qualitative study 218 Tobia Fattore, Sabirah Adams, Başak Akkan, Ravinder Barn, Emre Erdoğan, Susann Fegter, Jan Mason, Stella MŠrz, Serra Müderrisoğlu, Shazly Savahl, Graciela Tonon, Põnar Uyan-Semerci Conclusion: promoting social justice in a turbulent era 242 Gary Craig Index

‘Invaluable and timely research exposing the global drift of authoritarian politics of austerity, greed and hate by re-engaging with the social justice values of fairness, equality and inclusion to inform centrist and alternative left-of-centre strategies. The globally-sourced case studies analyse the continuing crises of economic neoliberalism, embedded racism and entrenched poverty which have been exacerbated by Covid-19 and climate change. The reader is left to consider how the challenge facing progressive civil society is moving beyond the politics of disparate social movements towards combined action directed at public policy respecting a common humanity.’