Open AccessRacialized Precarious Employment and the Inadequacies of the Canadian Welfare State
Author(s) -
Nicole S. Bernhardt
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
sage open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357
H-Index - 32
ISSN - 2158-2440
DOI - 10.1177/2158244015575639
Subject(s) - neoliberalism (international relations) , workforce , welfare state , scholarship , sociology , welfare , state (computer science) , power (physics) , inequality , political economy , racism , labour economics , political science , economics , gender studies , economic growth , politics , law , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
Although the rise in precarious employment within Canada is tied tothe ascendancy of neoliberalism, racialized persons have long been marginalized withinthe Canadian workforce and relegated to precarious workforce participation. Through anexploration of the relationship between precarious employment and racialized powerstructures, it will be demonstrated that while the moderate Keynesian welfare policiesof the post–World War II era served to mitigate the experiences of those excluded fromthe workplace, racialized power structures were not fundamentally altered in that era.This critique offers a response to scholarship on the impact of neoliberalism thatvalorizes the welfare state without paying sufficient attention to its history of racialexclusions. It proposes new strategies to address these underlying inequalities withinthe existing structures of the Canadian workforce