http://briarpatchmagazine.com Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news & views. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/12/03/november-2007-precarious-work/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/12/03/november-2007-precarious-work/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:09:34 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2007/12/03/november-2007-precarious-work/ 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. Browse contents. To subscribe or order a copy of this issue, call 1-866-431-5777 or visit our secure online shop.]]> http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/12/03/november-2007-precarious-work/feed/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/26/when-the-proletariat-meets-the-precariat-precarity-the-labour-movement/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/26/when-the-proletariat-meets-the-precariat-precarity-the-labour-movement/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:55:20 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2007/10/26/when-the-proletariat-meets-the-precariat-precarity-the-labour-movement/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/26/when-the-proletariat-meets-the-precariat-precarity-the-labour-movement/feed/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/building-the-worlds-most-flexible-workforce-the-harper-governments-double-doubling-of-the-foreign-worker-program/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/building-the-worlds-most-flexible-workforce-the-harper-governments-double-doubling-of-the-foreign-worker-program/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:33:24 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2007/10/24/building-the-worlds-most-flexible-workforce-the-harper-governments-double-doubling-of-the-foreign-worker-program/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/building-the-worlds-most-flexible-workforce-the-harper-governments-double-doubling-of-the-foreign-worker-program/feed/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/voices-from-the-front-lines-three-sites-of-struggle-against-precarious-labour-in-canada/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/voices-from-the-front-lines-three-sites-of-struggle-against-precarious-labour-in-canada/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:30:53 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2007/10/24/voices-from-the-front-lines-three-sites-of-struggle-against-precarious-labour-in-canada/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/voices-from-the-front-lines-three-sites-of-struggle-against-precarious-labour-in-canada/feed/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/free-trades-refugees-mexicos-migrant-workers-at-home-and-abroad/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/free-trades-refugees-mexicos-migrant-workers-at-home-and-abroad/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:34:29 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2007/10/24/free-trades-refugees-mexicos-migrant-workers-at-home-and-abroad/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/free-trades-refugees-mexicos-migrant-workers-at-home-and-abroad/feed/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/enough-to-live-on/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/enough-to-live-on/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:34:52 +0000 dave http://briarpatchmagazine.com/test/2007/10/24/enough-to-live-on/ http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2007/10/24/enough-to-live-on/feed/