[영문]This paper explores whether people are better off working in the precariousemployment associated with a neoliberal globalized economy.Firstly, we show the impacts of globalization on the compositionof food bank users in Toronto, Canada. We then compare twogroups of food bank users, one with at least one household memberworking, the other without. Our findings demonstrate that the lifeexperiences of the two groups remain depressingly similar: thoseemployed remained mired in poverty and continued to lead marginalized,precarious lives. The lack of investment in education ortraining characteristic of ‘work-first’ welfare reforms leads to unstable,low-paid work for the vast majority of those leaving welfare.