Precarious Enterprise on the Margins
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Precarious Enterprise on the Margins

Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City

  1. English
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eBook - PDF

Precarious Enterprise on the Margins

Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City

About this book

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. 

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. List of Images
  5. Chapter 1: Introduction: Work, Poverty and Capitalism
  6. Chapter 2: Marginality Reconsidered
  7. Chapter 3: Homeless Street Press: Historical and Contemporary Connections
  8. Chapter 4: Time Is Money
  9. Chapter 5: Being Productive: Working, Not Begging
  10. Chapter 6: Learning to Entrepreneurially Labour
  11. Chapter 7: Working in Public: Value, Exchange and Performance
  12. Chapter 8: Moving On?: Aspirations, Pathways and Stasis
  13. Chapter 9: Epilogue: Enterprise on the Margins
  14. Index