Precarious Enterprise on the Margins

Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City

Jessica Gerrard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-93157-6 (ISBN)

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This book explores the contemporary conditions of marginal work within the context of persistent unemployment, poverty, and homelessness in wealthy nations. Drawing from research concerning three cities—Melbourne, San Francisco, and London—Jessica Gerrard offers a rich account of one of the most precarious informal forms of work: selling homeless street press (The Big Issue and Street Sheet). Combining analyses of sellers’ everyday work experiences with theorizations of marginality, working, and learning, Gerrard provides much-needed insight into contemporary forms of entrepreneurial and precarious work. This book demonstrates that those who are unemployed and seemingly unproductive are, in fact, highly productive. They value, desire, and seek practical work experience whilst also struggling to fulfill the basic needs that many of us take for granted.

Jessica Gerrard is Senior Lecturer in Education, Equity, and Politics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

1. Introduction: Work, Poverty, and Capitalism.- 2. Marginality Reconsidered.- 3. Homeless Street Press: Historical and Contemporary Connections.- 4. Time is Money.- 5. Being Productive: Working, Not Begging.- 6. Learning to Entrepreneurially Labour.- 7. Working in Public: Value, Exchange, and Performance.- 8. Moving On?: Pathways, Aspirations, and Stasis.- 9. Epilogue: Enterprise on the Margins.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 214 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-349-93157-8 / 1349931578
ISBN-13	978-1-349-93157-6 / 9781349931576
Zustand	Neuware