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The New Spirit of Capitalism
Luc Boltanski,Eve Chiapello +1 more
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A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.Abstract:
A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.read more
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Fetishism and social domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno and Lefebvre
TL;DR: A comparative account of the theory of fetishism and its role in the social constitution and constituent properties of Marx, Lukacs, Adorno and Lefebvre's theories of social domination is presented in this article.
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Towards an anthropology of critique: The modern experience of liminality and crisis
TL;DR: Critique can be located anthropologically in liminality, particularly the experience of communitas wherein everything is open to question and structures appear as external and meaningless, which can be found in the work of.
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Governing the present: activism, neoliberalism and the problem of power and consent
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace some of the different standpoints from which a critical engagement with "governance" has been developed; then they assess the potential contribution of some strands of feminist cultural and political theory.
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Making sense of insecurity: a defence of Richard Sennett’s sociology of work
TL;DR: The authors defend Sennett's sociology of work under "new capitalism" against claims that his analysis lacks empirical foundation and methodological rigour, and argue that Sennett is not committed to these predictions, instead, his research provides a targeted critique of specific management practices and of those social transformations that share the same ethos.
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What's up with the self-employed? A cross-national perspective on the self-employed's work-related mental well-being.
Jessie Gevaert,Deborah De Moortel,Deborah De Moortel,Deborah De Moortel,Mathijn Wilkens,Christophe Vanroelen,Christophe Vanroelen,Christophe Vanroelen +7 more
TL;DR: It is found that motivation, the ability to recognize opportunities, and finding it easy to be self- employed positively influences the mental well-being of self-employed, implicating that policies promoting self-employment should be (more) concerned with the work-related characteristics of (future)Self-employed.
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A thousand plateaus : capitalism and schizophrenia
TL;DR: In this paper, a translation of the poem "The Pleasures of Philosophy" is presented, with a discussion of concrete rules and abstract machines in the context of art and philosophy.
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The Economic Institutions of Capitalism
TL;DR: The 2008 crash has left all the established economic doctrines - equilibrium models, real business cycles, disequilibria models - in disarray as discussed by the authors, and a good viewpoint to take bearings anew lies in comparing the post-Great Depression institutions with those emerging from Thatcher and Reagan's economic policies: deregulation, exogenous vs. endoge- nous money, shadow banking vs. Volcker's Rule.
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The Society of the Spectacle
TL;DR: The Society of the Spectacle as mentioned in this paper is one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s, and it has been widely used in the literature since.
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Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
TL;DR: Relevance Lost as mentioned in this paper is an overview of the evolution of management accounting in American business, from textile mills in the 1880s and the giant railroad, steel, and retail corporations, to today's environment of global competition and computer-automated manufacturers.