Work, Consumerism and the New Poor (Issues in Society) - Softcover

Bauman, Zygmunt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335201555 ISBN 13: 9780335201556

Verlag: Open University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employment; it is a quite different thing to be poor in a society of consumers, in which life projects are built around the consumer choice rather than work, professional skills or jobs. If "being poor" once derived its meaning from the condition of being unemployed, today it draws its meaning primarily from the plight of a flawed consumer. This is one difference which truly makes a difference - in the way living in poverty is experienced and in the chances and prospects to redeem its misery. This text attempts to trace this change, which has been taking place over the duration of modern history, and to make an inventory of its social consequences. On the way, it tries also to consider to what extent the well remembered and tested means of fighting back advancing poverty and mitigating its hardships are fit (or unfit) to grasp and tackle the problems of poverty in its present form.

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Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. He is one of the foremost commentators on the postmodern condition, whose latest books include Postmodernity and its Discontents (1997) and The Globals and the Locals (1998).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Open University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0335201555
• ISBN 13: 9780335201556
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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