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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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Introduction : Connecting Translation and Network Studies
TL;DR: This introductory article seeks to present a multifaceted and multi-tiered historical trajectory of the term and concept “network”, reflecting on the impact it has already had on studies in the domain of the sociology of translation.
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The possibilities and limits of political contestation in times of ‘urban austerity’:
Crispian Fuller,Karen West +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a conceptual framework in which to examine the social practices of contemporary austerity programs in urban areas, including how these relate to different conceptions of crisis, and the subject whose identificatory practices are key to understanding the form, nature and stability of discursive settlements.
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Different futures for different neighborhoods: The sustainability fix in Detroit
TL;DR: In this article, the volatile relation between economic and cultural capital to control the spirit of capitalism and its relations with society and nature is discussed, and the authors argue that the market appropriation of this utopian vision is at once a revalorization technique and a conflict suppression maneuver.
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Is the high-involvement worker precarious or opportunistic? Hierarchical ambiguities in late capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that structural and discursive developments in late capitalism generate a specific form of ambiguity which is mobilized by both managers and employees in attempts to exploit and control the counterpart.
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Accounting for the general intellect : immaterial labour and the social factory
Crawford Spence,David Carter +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the attempts of various accounting technologies to respond to the emergence of immaterial labour through the lens of autonomist Marxism and find cause to cautiously celebrate immaterial labor whose complexity tends to elude measurement, thereby offering hope for socialisations which exceed capitalist control.
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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.