Overview
- Draws on and contributes to current debate and research surrounding inequality and marginality within contemporary society
- Develops the relationship between work and education
- Engages with literature regarding the nature of contemporary work, and the centrality of work culture and practice in modern life
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Reviews
“This book is an engaging and illuminating encounter with the contemporary conditions of work and learning to work. It brings focused attention to the centrality of work – and now enterprise – in our lives. The ‘encounter’ is framed by seeking to understand the lives and experiences, the aestheticized and gendered performances of enterprise, of homeless sellers of street papers. In doing so Gerrard gives us renewed pause to reflect on those lives and the marginalised circumstances to which they point.” (Peter Kelly, Deputy Head of School (Research and Innovation), School of Education, RMIT University, Australia)
“This book is rich in data that gives a fascinating insight into the lives of homeless street press sellers. It will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the reproduction of inequality through precarious working conditions in the contemporary period and I highly recommend it.” (Tracy Shildrick, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jessica Gerrard is Senior Lecturer in Education, Equity, and Politics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Precarious Enterprise on the Margins
Book Subtitle: Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City
Authors: Jessica Gerrard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59483-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59482-2Published: 23 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93157-6Due: 20 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59483-9Published: 21 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 214
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Development Aid, Sociology of Work, Entrepreneurship