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The New Spirit of Capitalism

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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.
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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.

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The Struggle for the Soul of Social Work in England

TL;DR: The authors conducted a qualitative study of an undergraduate social work program in England and found that the paradigm of state or statutory social work in England threatens to replace a broad conception of social work as understood in such definitions as the International Federation of Social Work (IFSW), as well as the wider conception of the profession in other European states.
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Defining Algorithmic Ideology: Using Ideology Critique to Scrutinize Corporate Search Engines

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualized "algorithmic ideology" as a valuable tool to understand and critique corporate search engines in the context of wider socio-political developments, and showed how capitalist value systems manifest in search technology, how they spread through algorithmic logics and how they are stabilized in society.
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Is corporate social responsibility a new spirit of capitalism

TL;DR: In this article, the authors cast doubt on whether the managerial literature on corporate social responsibility is currently capable of developing a persuasive discourse to bring about change in corporate capitalism by applying the framework and methodology of the spirit of capitalism introduced by Boltanski and Chiapello, to a corpus of managerial books.
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Introduction to SI: Against the creative city: Activism in the creative city: When cultural workers fight against creative city policy

TL;DR: This paper explored artists' and cultural workers' activism in the context of urban social movements opposing creative city policy, focusing in particular on the meanings and images of creativity that emerge from this confrontation.
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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

Paolo Leon
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

Guy Debord
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.