Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition
by Bauman, Zygmunt
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- Title Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age
- Author Bauman, Zygmunt
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, U.S.A.
- Date 2011-06-13
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0745652956.G
- ISBN 9780745652955 / 0745652956
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Equality, Poverty - Social aspects
- Dewey Decimal Code 305
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From the rear cover
For the political class, poverty is commonly seen as a problem of law and order - a matter of how to deal with individuals, such as unemployed youths, who fall foul of the law. But treating poverty as a criminal problem obscures the social roots of inequality, which lie in the combination of a consumerist life philosophy propagated and instilled by a consumer-oriented economy, on the one hand, and the rapid shrinking of life chances available to the poor, on the other. In our contemporary, liquid-modern world, the poor are the collateral damage of a profit-driven, consumer-oriented society - 'aliens inside' who are deprived of the rights enjoyed by other members of the social order.
In this new book Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time - examines the selective affinity between the growth of social inequality and the rise in the volume of 'collateral damage' and considers its implications and its costs.
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 12/01/2011, Page 110