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Working in Jamie's Kitchen

Salvation, Passion and Young Workers

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  • © 2009

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  1. Peter Kelly
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  2. Lyn Harrison
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Wasted Lives

    • Peter Kelly, Lyn Harrison
    Pages 1-25

  3. The Naked Chef and the Master’s Apprentices

    • Peter Kelly, Lyn Harrison
    Pages 26-78

  4. Jamie’s Kitchen and the problem of young workers

    • Peter Kelly, Lyn Harrison
    Pages 79-109

  5. Becoming the Passionate, Entrepreneurial Self

    • Peter Kelly, Lyn Harrison
    Pages 110-140

  6. Passion: The Vital Ingredient in the Quest for Salvation?

    • Peter Kelly, Lyn Harrison
    Pages 141-175

  7. ‘Because She’s Pretty?’ Gender Relations and Young Workers

    • Peter Kelly, Lyn Harrison
    Pages 176-214

  8. ‘Don’t be a Smart Arse’: (Neo)liberalism, Generation Y and the Achievement of Conformity

    • Peter Kelly, Lyn Harrison
    Pages 215-249

  9. Conclusion: Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Will Set You Free)

    • Peter Kelly, Lyn Harrison
    Pages 250-261

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 262-280
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About this book

In the UK in 2002 the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver set out to transform a group of unemployed young Londoners into enterprising, passionate workers. Their struggles, and those that train and manage them, to develop a passionate orientation to work highlights many of the challenges we all face in the globalized labour markets of the 21st century.

About the authors

PETER KELLY is currently the head of Behavioural Studies (Faculty of Arts) at Monash University, Australia. His interests lie in exploring the nature of Youth identities in increasingly global settings and the ways in which various aspects of young people's identities are governed in these settings. 

LYN HARRISON is currently the coordinator of the Master of Education and the Graduate Certificate of Higher Education in the School of Education (Faculty of Arts and Education) at Deakin University, Australia. Her research interests lie in exploring Youth self/identity and the production of risks in late modernity, particularly in relation to health, wellbeing and sexuality.

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