Belonging is not easy in the modern world | Letters

Worker in the Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Middleton jam factory, 1929. ‘An injection of industrial democracy is needed if we are to achieve the kind of cooperative decentralised society George Monbiot seeks,’ writes John Lloyd.As Zygmunt Bauman explained so well in his insightful books on “liquid modernity”, more and more people (including me) are finding it difficult if not impossible to figure out where and with whom they belong in this contemporary reality.