Precarious enterprise on the margins : work, poverty and homelessness in the city /: work, poverty and homelessness in the city. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jessica Gerrard.
• Authors: Gerrard, Jessica
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Work, Poverty, and Capitalism -- 2. Marginality Reconsidered -- 3. Homeless Street Press: Historical and Contemporary Connections -- 4. Time is Money -- 5. Being Productive: Working, Not Begging -- 6. Learning to Entrepreneurially Labour -- 7. Working in Public: Value, Exchange, and Performance -- 8. Moving On?: Pathways, Aspirations, and Stasis -- 9. Epilogue: Enterprise on the Margins.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 362.509173/2; Social sciences; Urban poor; Marginality, Social; Work; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Marginality, Social; Urban poor; Work; Social Sciences; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education; Poverty, Aid and Development; Sociology of Work; Entrepreneurship; Education -- Adult & Continuing Education; Social Science -- Poverty & Homelessness; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Business & Economics -- Entrepreneurship; Adult education, continuous learning; Development studies; Sociology: work & labour; Entrepreneurship; Adult education; Poverty; Industrial sociology; Entrepreneurship; Social issues & processes; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137594839; 1137594837
• Related ISBNs: 9781137594822; 1137594829
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.