Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age

ISBN: 978-0-7456-5295-5

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224 pages

June 2011, Polity

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Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of our time.
This new book focuses on social inequality. Poverty is often seen as a problem of law and order, but this obscures the social roots of inequality, which lie in the combination of a consumerist life philosophy and the shrinking life chances available to the poor. The poor are the collateral damage of a profit-driven, consumer-oriented society - they are ‘aliens inside’ who are deprived of the rights enjoyed by other members of society.
This book represents a significant new advance on Bauman’s previous writings on liquid modernity. Here he confronts systematically and for the first time the phenomenon of social inequality in our contemporary global age.
Bauman has a large following and his books are widely read outside of higher education. This book will also appeal to students in sociology, politics, cultural studies and related subjects.