“…The basic fear, or diagnosis, is that an increasing number of people will become superfluous as workers in an economy which is undergoing modernization and globalization. Not only are the 'superfluous people' (Bude 1998) no longer needed in the labour market (or only as parttime employees in insecure and poorly paid jobs), they are also virmally without significance as consumers (Baumann 1998). Nor do they possess the material, social, and cultural resources that would enable them to gain unrestricted access to the services of the other societal sub-systems and organizations.…”