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Precarious Enterprise on the Margins

Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City

Jessica Gerrard author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:23rd Jul '17

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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. 

ISBN: 9781137594822

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 3997g

214 pages

1st ed. 2017