Class in Australia

Steven Threadgold

ISBN 10: 1922464899 / ISBN 13: 9781922464897

Editore: Monash University Publishing, AU, 2022

Codice articolo LU-9781922464897

Riassunto:

Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities are rising. Though Australia is often described as a ‘lucky country’ with a strong economy, we are witness to intensifying inequality with entrenched poverty and the growth of precarious and insecure labour. The disconnect of the rusted-on Labor voter and the rise of far-right politics suggest there is an urgent need to examine the contemporary functions of class relations. At a time of deepening inequality, Class in Australia brings together a range of new and original research for a timely examination of class relations, labour exploitation, and the changing formations of work in contemporary Australian society.

Informazioni sull'autore: Jessica Gerrard is an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Her research is on the changing formations, and lived experiences, of social inequalities in relation to education, activism, work and unemployment. She works across the disciplines of sociology, history and policy studies with an interest in critical methodologies and theories. She is the author of Precarious Enterprise on the Margins: Work, Poverty and Homelessness in the City (2017) and Radical Childhoods: Schooling and the Struggle for Social Change (2014). Steven Threadgold is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Newcastle. His research focuses on youth and class, with particular interests in unequal and alternate work and career trajectories; underground and independent creative scenes; and cultural formations of taste. Steve is the co-director of the Newcastle Youth Studies Network, an Associate Editor of Journal of Youth Studies, and on the Editorial Boards of The Sociological Review and Journal of Applied Youth Studies.

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Titolo: Class in Australia
Casa editrice: Monash University Publishing, AU
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: New