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The moral economy of grades and standards
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In this article, it is argued that grades and standards are part of the moral economy of the modern world, and that they both set norms for behavior and standardize (create uniformity).About:
This article is published in Journal of Rural Studies.The article was published on 2000-07-01. It has received 313 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Generally Accepted Auditing Standards & Standardization.read more
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
TL;DR: In Sorting Things Out, Bowker and Star as mentioned in this paper explore the role of categories and standards in shaping the modern world and examine how categories are made and kept invisible, and how people can change this invisibility when necessary.
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Theory of business enterprise
TL;DR: Veblen's analysis of the U.S. economy has been claimed and rejected both by sociologists and economists as being one of theirs as mentioned in this paper, but it has enduring value today.
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Quality standards, conventions and the governance of global value chains
Stefano Ponte,Peter Gibbon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that global value chains are becoming increasingly "buyer-driven" even though they are characterized by "hands-off" forms of co-ordination between "lead firms" and their immediate suppliers.
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The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
TL;DR: The central unifying theme in the Manuscripts is the alienation of labour under capitalist conditions of private ownership and its transcendence and abolition under communism as discussed by the authors, which is the genuine resolution of the conflict between man and nature.
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A World of Standards but not a Standard World: Toward a Sociology of Standards and Standardization *
TL;DR: Reviewing the relevance of standards and standardization in diverse theoretical traditions and sociological subfields, it is called for careful empirical analysis of the specific and unintended consequences of different sorts of standards operating in distinct social domains.
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From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food
Eileen Berry,Alessandro Bonanno,Lawrence Busch,William H. Friedland,Lourdes Gouveia,Enzo Mingione +5 more
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Knowledge and Power
TL;DR: The authors argued that the detailed division of labour characteristic of capitalist production owed more to the advantages of control which it afforded the capitalists than to advantages of efficiency shared more or less equally by the population as a whole.
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Metrology: The Creation of Universality by the Circulation of Particulars
TL;DR: The authors explores the recent suggestion that the universality of technoscience -its ability to bring facets of the world into the lab, and to move results achieved in the lab out into the world -is accomplished by expensive and labour-intensive metrological practices that have hitherto been overlooked in social studies of science.
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Beyond political economy: actor networks and the globalization of agriculture
Lawrence Busch,Arunas Juska +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the actor network approach is used to analyze the globalization process of the Canadian rapeseed industry, and the actors engaged in global rapeseed production networks are discussed. But the application of actor network theory to political economy studies is not discussed.
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