Started this little provocateur while studying for my defence, and in coming back to finish realized its full compliment of gifts. It is a concise summary of the economic, social, and political perils we live with...and the clarity it offers isn't always easy to accept.
I'm left with the encouragement to read more Bauman.

"'Markets without frontiers' is a recipe for injustice..."

"Having leaked from a society forcefully laid open by the pressures of globalizing forces, power and politics drift ever further in opposite directions."

"The volume of humans made redundant by capitalism's global triumph grows unstoppably and comes close now to exceeding the managerial capacity of the planet..."