“The new road to serfdom begins with a loan,” wrote Michael Hudson in his 2006 Harper’s article on the then-pending collapse of the U.S. housing market, which is now in full swing. By that estimation, Canada is a nation of serfs that still believe it’s free, as we continue to spend our way deeper and deeper into debt.
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The concept of precarity has emerged in recent years as a useful description of daily life under neo-liberal globalization, as well as a potential banner for uniting various movements in the fight against it. This issue of Briarpatch dives into the shallow end of the labour pool to investigate the increasingly precarious nature of work in Canada, and highlights a number of sites of struggle where workers are beginning to challenge this growing precarity.
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