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Tables of Contents for Work, Consumerism and the New Poor
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Series editor's foreward
vii
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
2
Part one
3
40
The meaning of work: producing the work ethic
5
18
Getting people to work
7
4
Work or perish
11
5
Producing the producers
16
3
From `better' to `more'
19
4
From the work ethic to the aesthetic of consumption
23
20
The making of a consumer
26
4
Work as judged by aesthetics
30
3
Vocation as privilege
33
3
Being poor in a consumer society
36
7
Part two
43
38
The rise and fall of the welfare state
45
18
Between inclusion and exclusion
47
4
The welfare state unemployed
51
4
The contented majority?
55
4
Success that brought the demise
59
4
The work ethic and the new poor
63
18
The discovery of the `underclass'
66
2
The work ethic goes underclass
68
4
To be poor is criminal
72
5
Expulsion from the universe of moral obligations
77
4
Part three
81
18
Prospects for the new poor
83
16
The poor without role
86
5
No role, no moral duty
91
3
Ethic of work or ethic of life?
94
5
Notes
99
6
Index
105