Katharine Quarmby on Gypsy entrepreneurs
28 Aug 2013
Agency author Katharine Quarmby has written a fascinating piece for The Spectator on Gypsy entrepreneurs.
“Ask anyone from the settled community (known as ‘gorgias’ to Romani Gypsies and as ‘country people’ to Irish Travellers) what Gypsies do for money and the list would be short: tarmacking, roofing, scrap-metal dealing, hawking or maybe horse dealing.
This picture, of course, has a germ of truth in it. Many Gypsies still work as skilled labourers — but what’s remarkable is just how entrepreneurial they are, too.”
Katharine’s new ebook Blood & Water was recently selected as an Amazon ‘Kindle Single’.
