Year: 1998
Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Genre: Sociology
Publisher: Open University Press
ISBN: 0 335 20155 5
English language
Format: DjVu
Number of Pages: 108

The work of the well-known English sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, devoted to the study of the transition from working ethics to consumption kesthetics and the phenomenon of poverty in a consumption society.
The Russian language is not currently translated.

Series editor's foreword vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
Part one 3
1 The meaning of work: producing the work ethic 5
Getting people to work 7
Work or perish 11
Producing the producers 16
From 'better' to 'more' 19
2 From the work ethic to the aesthetic of consumption 23
The making of a consumer 26
Work as judged by aesthetics 30
Vocation as privilege 33
Being poor in a consumer society 36
Part two 43
3 The rise and fall of the welfare state 45
Between inclusion and exclusion 47
The welfare state unemployed 51
The contented majority? 55
Success that brought the demise 59
4 The work ethic and the new poor 63
The discovery of the "underclass" 66
The work ethic goes underclass 68
To be poor is criminal 72
Expulsion from the universe of moral obligations 77
Part three 81
5 Prospects for the new poor 83
The poor without role 86
No role, no moral duty 91
Ethic of work or ethic of life? 94
Notes 99
Index 105

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