TY - BOOK AU - Bauman,Zygmunt ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Work, consumerism and the new poor T2 - Issues in society SN - 9780335215980 (pbk.) : AV - HC79.P6 B36 2005 U1 - 362.5 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Maidenhead PB - Open University Press KW - Public welfare KW - Production (Economic theory) KW - Consumers KW - Attitudes KW - Poor KW - Public opinion KW - Poverty KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Work ethic KW - Labor market KW - Society KW - ukslc KW - Social services & welfare, criminology KW - thema KW - Sociology & anthropology KW - Macroeconomics KW - Poverty & unemployment KW - Consumerism KW - Electronic books N1 - Previous ed.: 1998; Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries N2 - In this volume, Zygmunt Bauman examines how the definition of being 'poor' has changed in light of the growth of consumerism in Western society, and also attempts to evaluate the relevance of traditional methods of tackling poverty. This edition discusses redundancy, disposability and exclusion UR - http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aitie/detail.action?docID=287901 ER -