One dimensional man
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TL;DR: In this article, the role of communication and media systems in contemporary financial markets is analyzed and it is shown that new communication technologies have played a central role in the increased velocity, volume and scale of financial market activity since the 1970s.
Abstract: The thesis critically analyses the role of communication and media systems in contemporary financial markets. New communication technologies have played a central role in the increased velocity, volume and scale of financial market activity since the 1970
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...As Marx’s (1996) analysis anticipated, the sustainability of capital accumulation is threatened by intractable contradictions....
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TL;DR: Although the commodification of experience has been a long-standing concern for critical scholars, today the breadth and depth of this practice and the conscious manipulation involved is unparallel as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Although the commodification of experience has been a long-standing concern for critical scholars, today the breadth and depth of this practice and the conscious manipulation involved is unparallel...
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...Life has been deprived of autonomous existence and become a means to an end, rather than being an end in itself (see also Horkheimer, 2004; Marcuse, 1972)....
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TL;DR: Using the concepts of metabolism and metabolic rift as a framework, the authors examines carbon geoengineering technologies as a solution to climate change and explores if it is possible to mend an irreparable metabolic rift.
Abstract: Using the concepts of metabolism and metabolic rift as a framework, this paper examines carbon geoengineering technologies as a solution to climate change and explores if it is possible to mend an ...
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01 Jan 1995
Abstract: The work is better and you don't get so frustrated, but you don't ever see anybody at work now which makes us divisive and lonely. I miss the comradeship. (John, Waterside Worker). John's comment hints at the complexity of the worker's experience of workplace change. This thesis peers into the mire, interviewing 161 (mostly male) workers to ask how they legitimate and consent to organisational change, thus illuminating a significant gap in contemporary industrial sociology. The thesis begins with a discussion of the socio-politico-economic environment of contemporary organisational change in Australia, setting the workers' experiences in a broad context. This is followed by a comprehensive review of the "employment" literature (including management and critical theory), which was conducted to establish an appropriate framework for the analysis of the individual worker's experience of change. It was found that management theory ignored contextual variables which were germane to the experience of the capitalist labour process. Critical perspectives, though, generally disregarded the individual in their incorporation of context. It was, however, established that a critical sociological framework could incorporate individual experience. Investigation proceeded on the assumption that workers had both objective and subjective constraints and opportunities which affected their experience of organisational change, and the interpretation of that experience. Workers in four industries (public sector, mining, manufacturing and the waterfront) were surveyed by questionnaire and interview, providing data from which a grid of legitimation and consent behaviours and attitudes was constructed. It was concluded that legitimation and consent are both variable and related concepts. It was found, for example, that workers might legitimate organisational objectives, but not consent to managerial interference in how their job could best articulate with those objectives. Different contexts of organisational experience and organisational change contributed unique expressions of legitimation and consent, complementing a common core of behaviours and attitudes. Peering into the mire revealed, above all, the humour, insight and endurance which accompanies the worker's experience of organisational change in the contemporary workplace. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Chapter One Workers and Organisational Change: the Nature of the 1 Problem Introduction 2 The Context: Australia Goes Global 6 Hearts and Minds 2 0 Conclusion 2 9 Endnote: Australian Wage Determination and the Accord 3 2 Chapter Two Theoretical Perspectives on Workers in Organisations 3 3 Introduction 3 3 I. Individuals in Organisations 3 8 The Limitations of the Theoretical Conceptions of 7 8 Individuals in Organisations II. Individuals in Organisational Change 8 0 The Limitations of the Theoretical Approaches to 9 3 Organisational Change III. The Problem of Worker Consent 9 7 Defining Consent? 9 8 Management Theory and Worker Consent 9 9 Summary: Consent as Cooperation 1 0 5 Critical Theory and Worker Consent 106 Summary: Consent is Manufactured 112 IV. The Problem of Worker Legitimation 113 Management Theory and Worker Legitimation 1 1 4 Summary: Legitimation as Commitment 119 Critical Theory and Legitimation 1 2 0 Summary: Flexible and Manufactured Legitimation 1 2 7 Conclusion 128 Individuals and the Roles they Play in Organisational 129 Change Legitimation and Consent to Change 1 3 6 Concluding Remarks 140 Endnote: The Influence and Influences of Marx 1 4 2 Chapter Three 14 5 Consent, Legitimation and the Workers' Experiences of Change: A Critical Analysis of the Concepts The Role of Control 145 The Conceptual Background to the Empirical Study 1 4 8 Operationalisation of Legitimation and Consent 1 5 0 Granting Consent and Legitimation 1 51 Granting Consent and Withholding Legitimation 153 Granting Legitimation and Withholding Consent 1 53 Withholding Consent and Legitimation 1 5 5 The Context of the Organisational Change Experience 157 Conclusion 1 5 8 Chapter Four Methodology 1 60 The Research Design 1 6 0 The Research Methods 1 6 8 Conclusion 177 Chapter Five Organisational Change at Fincor 17 8 Introduction 178 The Context of Change 1 7 9 The Changing Public Sector 1 7 9 The Fincor Restructure 1 81 Legitimation and Consent to Change: the Fincor Workers' 185 Perspective Overview of the Research Process at Fincor 1 8 5 The Fincor Sample 1 8 5 Worker Consent to and Legitimation of Change 1 8 8 Granting Consent and Legitimation 1 8 8 Granting Consent and Withholding Legitimation 1 9 7 Granting Legitimation and Withholding Consent 1 9 9 Withholding Consent and Legitimation 202 Workers' Experiences of the Process and Outcomes of Change at 20 6 Fincor Workers' Perceptions of the Change Imperative 20 6 The Process of Change 21 0 Workers' Perceptions of the Outcomes of Change 220 The Workers' Judgement of Organisational Change at Fincor 233 Conclusion 238 Chapter Six The Waterfront Reforms at Fremantle 2 4 3 Waterfront Reform: the Context of Change 243 The Employment Relationship on the Wharf 243 Traditional Employment Attitudes 246 Changing Attitudes on the Waterfront 2 48 Legitimation and Consent to Change: the Waterfront Workers' 25 0 Perspectives Overview of the Research Process 25 0 The Waterfront Sample 253 Worker Consent to and Legitimation of Change 257 Granting Consent and Legitimation 25 7 Granting Consent and Withholding Legitimation 270 Granting Legitimation and Withholding Consent 273 Withholding Consent and Legitimation 278 Workers' Experiences of the Process and Outcomes of Waterfront 286 Reform at Fremantle Workers' Perceptions of the Change Imperative 286 The Process of Change 2 92 Workers' Perceptions of the Outcomes from the Reforms 307 The Workers' Judgement of the Waterfront Reforms 31 5 Conclusion 3 21 Chapter Seven Organisational Change at MineCo 3 2 7 The Context of Change 327 Labour Management in the Mining Industry 32 9 Together Success at MineCo 330 Legitimation and Consent to Change: the MineCo Workers' 33 6 Perspective Overview of the Research Process 336 The MineCo Sample 337 Worker Consent to and Legitimation of Change 339 Granting Consent and Legitimation 33 9 Granting Consent and Withholding Legitimation 349 Granting Legitimation and Withholding Consent 352 Withholding Consent and Legitimation 35 8 Workers' Experiences of the Process and Outcomes of the Together 364 Success strategy at MineCo Workers' Perceptions of the Change Imperative 364 The Process of Change 368 Workers' Perceptions of the Outcomes of Change 377 Conclusion 390 Chapter Eight Organisational Change at PopCo 3 9 6 The Context of Change 396 The Role of Labour in the Manufacturing Recovery 398 Responding to the Challenges 400 Legitimation and Consent to Change: the PopCo Workers' 403 Perspective Overview of the Research Process 403 The PopCo Sample 404 Worker Consent to and Legitimation of Change 406 Granting Consent and Legitimation 406 Granting Consent and Withholding Legitimation 41 5 Granting Legitimation and Withholding Consent 41 8 Withholding Consent and Legitimation 42 3 Workers' Experiences of the Process and Outcomes of Change at 42 9 PopCo Workers' Perceptions of the Change Imperative 430 The Process of Change 434 Workers' Perceptions of the Outcomes of Change 446 Conclusion 4 5 6 Chapter Nine Conclusion 4 6 2 Introduction 462 Organisational Change in Theory and Practice 466 The Subjective and Objective Experience of Change: 469 Evidence from the Shop Floor Legitimation and Consent in Organisations 478 The Complex Experience of Change 492 References 4 9 6 Appendices LIST O F FIGURES Page Figure 2.1 A Deterministic Model of the Role of Workers in 131 Organisational Change: Management Theory Figure 2.2 A Deterministic Model of the Role of Workers in 133 Organisational Change: Critical Theory Figure 2.3 A Materialist Model of the Worker as a Relatively 135 Autonomous Actor in Organisational Change Figure 2.4 Management Theory: Consent and Legitimation as 137 Cooperation and Commitment Figure 2.5 Critical Theory: Flexible and Manufactured Consent 139 and Legitimation Figure 9.1 Possible Consent and Legitimation Behaviours and 490 Attitudes
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TL;DR: Specific patterns of motor organization reveal different modes of motor control in individuals with developmental motor problems, and taken phenomenologically these patterns can contribute to the clinical approach to cerebral palsy and redefine patients groups within this framework.
Abstract: Forty years ago, a consensual definition of the cerebral palsy concept was suggested, delineating it as a disorder of movement and posture secondary to non-progressive pathological processes that affect the immature brain. Because this concept is pragmatic and based on function, it has survived unaltered many changes in pathophysiolgical knowledge, diagnostic technology and general nosology. However, its basis has appeared to be flawed. Its main justification remains management, for which the need to meticulously select patients, define adapted objectives, design appropriate management programs and evaluate results has been increasingly recognized. Fine movement analysis using recent technologies can provide a wealth of information about neurological functioning in cerebral palsy that can serve these purposes. Specific patterns of motor organization reveal different modes of motor control in individuals with developmental motor problems. The different motor patterns reflect individual adaptation to the impairment of the central nervous system. Taken phenomenologically these patterns can contribute to the clinical approach to cerebral palsy and redefine patients groups within this framework. (J Pediatr Neurol 2004; 2(2): 57-64).
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
Abstract: The problem of false consciousness and its relationship to the social structure of tourist establishments is analyzed. Accounts of travelers are examined in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction. It is found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences. It is also found that tourist settings are arrenged to produce the impression that a back region has been entered even when this is not the case. In tourist settings, between the front and the back there is a series of special spaces designed to accommodate tourists and to support their beliefs in the authenticity of their experiences. Goffman's front-back dichotomy is shown to be ideal poles of a continuum, or a variable.
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TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors explored the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self and found that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism.
Abstract: Despite recent interest in the effects of restructuring and redesigning the work place, the link between individual identity and structural change has usually been asserted rather than demonstrated. Through an extensive review of data from field work in a multi-national corporation Catherine Casey changes this. She knows that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism. These events affect what people do everyday, and they are altering relations among ourselves and with the physical world. This valuable book is not only a critical analysis of the transformations occurring in the world of work, but an exploration of the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self.
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TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature, including self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers.
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