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Book SynopsisReviewersâ comments on the first editionâœZygmunt Bauman presents a cogently argued and compelling thesis... an important book from a distinguished scholar, that adds a new dimension to the poverty debate.âBritish Journal of Sociology
âœIt will be of great interest and value to students, teachers and researchers in sociology and social policyâ [Bauman] provides a very forceful and sophisticated statement of the case; and a very well written one too. As a wide ranging analysis of our present discontents it is an admirable example of the sort of challenge which sociology at its best can offer to us and our fellow citizens to re-assess and re-think our current social arrangements.âWork, Employment and Society
âœThis is a stylish and persuasive analysis of the transition between the age of the âsociety of producersâ to that of the âsociety of consumersâ.âPolitical Studies
It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employment
Table of Contents
Series editor’s foreword
Introduction
Part one
1 The meaning of work: producing the work ethic
2 From the work ethic to the aesthetic of consumption
Part two
3 The rise and fall of the welfare state
4 The work ethic and the new poor
5 Work and redundancy in the globalized world
Part three
6 Prospects for the new poor
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