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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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Precarity as a Biographical Problem? Young Workers Living with Precarity in Germany and Poland:
Adam Mrozowicki,Vera Trappmann +1 more
TL;DR: In the context of debates on the meanings of precarious employment, the authors explores the varied ways young workers in Poland and Germany are managing precarity, using biographical narrative intervie...
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Corporate social responsibility á la the liberal communist
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the liberal communist, a conceptual and satirical figure originally elaborated in the work of Slavoj Žižek (2008), who claims that there is no opposition between capitalism and the social good; all problems are of a practical nature, and hence best solved by corporate engagement; hierarchies, authority and centralized bureaucracies should be replaced by dynamic structures, a nomadic lifestyle and a flexible spirit.
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Voices From the Margin: The Stigmatization Process as an Effect of Socio-Spatial Peripheralization in Small-Town Germany1
TL;DR: The new globalized landscape of capitalist development is characterized by the "annihilation of space by time" with its specific historical-geographical "time-space-compression" as discussed by the authors.
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Globalisations utopia?:on airport atmospherics
TL;DR: This paper argued that the highly managed atmosphere of airport terminals is particularly characteristic of the 'global' era and argued that these atmospheres are moving out into many other places that appear to be more and more similar to airports.
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Events in the affective city: Affect, attention and alignment in two ordinary urban events:
Marion Ernwein,Laurent Matthey +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that an ordinary regime of events is mobilised by city-makers to act on the embodied, affective experience of the city and on the ways urban dwellers know and act upon the city.
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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.