Trabajo, consumismo y nuevos pobres
Title | Trabajo, consumismo y nuevos pobres PDF eBook |
Author | Zygmunt Bauman |
Publisher | Gedisa Editorial S A |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9788474327502 |
¿Es posible combatir y vencer la pobreza con métodos ortodoxos? ¿Deberíamos buscar nuevas soluciones, como la de separar el derecho al sustento de la venta del trabajo en el mercado laboral y ampliar todo el concepto de trabajo tal como la sociedad lo ha entendido hasta ahora? Una cosa es ser pobre en una comunidad de productores con empleos para todos, y otra muy diferente es serlo en una sociedad de consumidores cuyos proyectos de vida se construyen en torno a la elección de lo que se consume y no alrededor del trabajo, la capacidad profesional o la disponibilidad de empleos. Si en otras épocas ser pobre significaba estar sin trabajo, hoy este calificativo se refiere, sobre todo, a los apuros de unos consumidores expulsados del mercado. Esta diferencia cambia la situación radicalmente y afecta tanto la experiencia misma de la pobreza como las oportunidades y perspectivas de resolver sus penurias.
Trabajo, consumismo y nuevos pobres (3a. ed.).
Title | Trabajo, consumismo y nuevos pobres (3a. ed.). PDF eBook |
Author | Zygmunt Bauman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2011 |
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Work, Consumerism and the New Poor
Title | Work, Consumerism and the New Poor PDF eBook |
Author | Zygmunt Bauman |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 2004-09-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0335224164 |
Reviewers’ comments on the first edition “Zygmunt Bauman presents a cogently argued and compelling thesis... an important book from a distinguished scholar, that adds a new dimension to the poverty debate.”British Journal of Sociology “It will be of great interest and value to students, teachers and researchers in sociology and social policy… [Bauman] provides a very forceful and sophisticated statement of the case; and a very well written one too. As a wide ranging analysis of our present discontents it is an admirable example of the sort of challenge which sociology at its best can offer to us and our fellow citizens to re-assess and re-think our current social arrangements.”Work, Employment and Society “This is a stylish and persuasive analysis of the transition between the age of the ‘society of producers’ to that of the ‘society of consumers’.”Political Studies It is one thing to be poor in a society of producers and universal employment; it is quite a different thing to be poor in a society of consumers, in which life projects are built around consumer choices rather than on work, professional skills or jobs. Where ‘being poor’ was once linked to being unemployed, today it draws its meaning primarily from the plight of a flawed consumer. This has a significant effect on the way living in poverty is experienced and on the prospects for redeeming its misery. Work, Consumerism and the New Poor traces this change over the duration of modern history. It makes an inventory of its social consequences, and considers how effective different ways of fighting poverty and relieving its hardships are. The new edition of this seminal work features: Updated coverage of key thinkers in the field Discussion of recent work on redundancy, disposability and exclusion Current thinking on the effects of capital flows on different countries and the changes on the shop floor through, for example, business process re-engineering New material on security and vulnerability Key reading for students and lecturers in sociology, politics and social policy, and those with an interest in contemporary social issues.
Consumer Law and Socioeconomic Development
Title | Consumer Law and Socioeconomic Development PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Lima Marques |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2017-07-14 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 331955624X |
This book reflects the research output of the Committee on the International Protection of Consumers of the International Law Association (ILA). The Committee was created in 2008, with a mandate to study the role of public and private law to protect consumers, review UN Guidelines, and to model laws, international treaties and national legislations concerning protection and consumer redress. It has been accepted to act as an observer not only when the UNCTAD was updating its guidelines, but also at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. The book includes the contributions of various Committee members in the past few years and is a result of the cooperation between the Committee members and experts from Australia, Brazil, Canada and China. It is divided into three parts: the first part addresses trends and challenges in international protection of consumers, while the second part focuses on financial crises and consumer protection and the third part examines national and regional consumer law issues.
Discourses of the Developing World
Title | Discourses of the Developing World PDF eBook |
Author | Shi-xu |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2016-04-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1317702557 |
Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar, marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the Third World or the Global South. Written by leading researchers based in Asia, Africa and Latin America, respectively, this book reconstructs Eastern paradigms of communication studies on the one hand and explores the discursive problems, complexities, aspirations, and dynamics of the non-Western, subaltern, and developing societies on the other. As methodological principles, the authors i) adopt the cultural-political stance of supporting cultural diversity and harmony at both academic and everyday levels, ii) draw upon Asian, African and Latino scholarship in critical dialogue with the existing mainstream traditions, and iii) make sense of the discourses of Asia, Africa and Latin America from their own local as well as global, historical and intercultural, perspectives. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of discourse studies, communication and cultural studies, and development studies.
Youth Transitions
Title | Youth Transitions PDF eBook |
Author | René Bendit |
Publisher | Verlag Barbara Budrich |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2008-11-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3866499213 |
Youth and the future What will become of today ́s young people in Australia, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America? Will they be supportive of the world they live in? Or are they doomed to be criminal drop-outs? The authors investigate to which extent different and contradictory trends of social modernisation and economic progress determine the biographical development and social integration of young people in different countries and world regions. Thus, the authors look at the role young people themselves can play in the future; either as construc tive social actors or as a problematic - and partly excluded - group unable to face the challenges of a permanently changing world.
Lives And Relationships
Title | Lives And Relationships PDF eBook |
Author | Yasuhiro Omi |
Publisher | IAP |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2013-12-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1623964296 |
This book brings to cultural psychology the focus on phenomenology of everyday life. Whether it is in the context of education, work, or exploration of life environments, the chapters in this book converge on the need to give attention to complex realities of everyday living. Thus, a description of pre-school organization in Japan would be in its form very different from school organization in Britain or Colombia—yet the realities of human beings acting in social roles are continuous around the world.