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Author Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017.

Title Wasted lives : modernity and its outcasts / Zygmunt Bauman
Published Oxford : Polity ; Malden, MA : Distributed in the USA by Blackwell, 2004
Cambridge [England] : Polity, 2004
©2004

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Description [vi], 140 pages ; 24 cm
Contents In the beginning was design (or the waste of order-building) -- Are there too many of them? (or the waste of economic progress) -- To each waste its dumping site (or the waste of globalization) -- Culture of waste
Summary The 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization. Zygmunt Bauman shows that the problem of coping with 'human waste' provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life
Notes Part of the Asia Pacific Design Library. QSL
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-140)
Subject Civilization, Modern -- 21st century -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Economic development -- Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Globalization -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Outcasts -- Political aspects.
Overpopulation.
Population policy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Refugees -- Government policy.
Refugees -- Political aspects.
ISBN 0745631649
0745631657
9780745631646
9780745631653
Other Titles Modernity and its outcasts