Book, Collateral damage: social inequalities in a global era[LS]

In a war, no one takes responsibility for collateral damage: the death of civilians, the bombing of buildings, schools, hospitals... Likewise, Zygmunt Bauman argues that the victims of political and economic actions are also not attended to or taken into account. account. These are men and women sacrificed by the globalization process and who still end up guilty of their exclusion. In our liquid-modern world, the disadvantaged are the collateral damage of a profit-driven, consumption-driven society. In eleven essays, Bauman examines the relationship between the growth of social inequality and the expanding volume of "collateral damage."