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Book Review: Nick Hubble, Jennie Taylor and Philip Tew, Growing Old with the Welfare State: Eight British Lives

Although overly detailed and repetitious at times, Wilkis’ conclusion ably summarized his findings. ‘Money became the vehicle that allowed me to reconnect fragments of individual and collective life. Without a doubt, money embodied a symbol of integration within the collective’ (p. 159). I believe that Wilkis’ interpretation goes beyond the basic sociological idea that money depersonalizes social relations. ‘Social life can be analyzed through the dynamic that expresses the struggles to accumulate moral capital through hierarchies of money and to interpret how best to handle one’s social relations in those hierarchies’ (p. 162). It is not the amount of money that is important to the poor, but the sources, the uses, and the reciprocities that evolve from the acquisition and use of money that is important. The moral value of money is never unilateral or singular; its meaning depends on where it stands in the hierarchy of monies. For one to understand the place of money in the life of the poor, one must grasp this foundational insight.