Precarious Enterprise on the Margins : Work, Poverty, and Homelessness in the City

• Main Author: Gerrard, Jessica (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Entrepreneurship.; Lifelong learning.; Adult education.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Industrial sociology.; Poverty.; elektronické knihy; electronic books

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 pre...