Consumption

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2529-4

Hardcover

176 pages

September 2003, Polity

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Examines whether consumer society has delivered choice, freedom and prosperity, or individualism, selfishness and social exclusion.
Demonstrates that we are living through a profound transition from a society based on production to a new social order - the consumer society.
Analyses the relationship between the rise of consumerism and the transformation of the world of work - fulfilment is no longer sought from work but from consumption.
Explores possible escape routes from consumer society.