Racialized Precarious Employment and the Inadequacies of the Canadian Welfare State
Although the rise in precarious employment within Canada is tied to the ascendancy of neoliberalism, racialized persons have long been marginalized within the Canadian workforce and relegated to precarious workforce participation. Through an exploration of the relationship between precarious employm...
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| description | Although the rise in precarious employment within Canada is tied to the ascendancy of neoliberalism, racialized persons have long been marginalized within the Canadian workforce and relegated to precarious workforce participation. Through an exploration of the relationship between precarious employment and racialized power structures, it will be demonstrated that while the moderate Keynesian welfare policies of the post–World War II era served to mitigate the experiences of those excluded from the workplace, racialized power structures were not fundamentally altered in that era. This critique offers a response to scholarship on the impact of neoliberalism that valorizes the welfare state without paying sufficient attention to its history of racial exclusions. It proposes new strategies to address these underlying inequalities within the existing structures of the Canadian workforce. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a063447bf0794fd2a84e41736865fc5e2022-12-22T00:18:52ZengSAGE PublishingSAGE Open2158-24402015-04-01510.1177/215824401557563910.1177_2158244015575639Racialized Precarious Employment and the Inadequacies of the Canadian Welfare StateNicole S. Bernhardt0York University, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAlthough the rise in precarious employment within Canada is tied to the ascendancy of neoliberalism, racialized persons have long been marginalized within the Canadian workforce and relegated to precarious workforce participation. Through an exploration of the relationship between precarious employment and racialized power structures, it will be demonstrated that while the moderate Keynesian welfare policies of the post–World War II era served to mitigate the experiences of those excluded from the workplace, racialized power structures were not fundamentally altered in that era. This critique offers a response to scholarship on the impact of neoliberalism that valorizes the welfare state without paying sufficient attention to its history of racial exclusions. It proposes new strategies to address these underlying inequalities within the existing structures of the Canadian workforce.https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015575639 |
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| title | Racialized Precarious Employment and the Inadequacies of the Canadian Welfare State |
| title_full | Racialized Precarious Employment and the Inadequacies of the Canadian Welfare State |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Racialized Precarious Employment and the Inadequacies of the Canadian Welfare State |
| title_short | Racialized Precarious Employment and the Inadequacies of the Canadian Welfare State |
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