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The New Spirit of Capitalism
01 Jan 2005-
TL;DR: 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.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined older professionals' approaches to and conceptions of learning and found that these older professionals are particularly focused in what, when and how they engage in learning, and demonstrate ambivalences related to discourses of both age and learning.
Abstract: Amidst projected shortages of skilled workers, policy measures to retain older workers in employment include increasing their participation in learning. However, the few studies produced to date examining older workers’ learning suggest complexities not recognized in human capital conceptions of skill development and assumptions of declining seniors’ participation. To build on these studies, particularly in older professionals’ learning, which has received little attention despite concerns regarding professional transitions in a knowledge economy, this article examines older professionals’ approaches to and conceptions of learning. The study involved 816 accountants’ survey responses and 60 interviews with older (50+) Certified Management Accountants in Canada. Far from withdrawing from learning, these older professionals are particularly focused in what, when and how they engage. Their enactments are complex, and demonstrate ambivalences related to discourses of both age and learning. More fundamentally,...
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...Third, the ‘new’ demands claimed in new capitalism of work intensification, contingency, mobility, eroded loyalty and tenuous worker−employer links (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2007; Sennett, 2006) may particularly affect long-experienced, ageing professionals whose practice was shaped in different work relations....
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...Boltanski and Chiapello (2007) stress the contingency and mobility of work in new capitalism, eroding links between workers and employers and demanding worker adaptation....
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...…learning Older professionals’ learning needs to be understood within broader dynamics of workplace ageism as well as within the shifting work arrangements and intensifications in what critical writers have described as ‘new capitalism’ (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2007; Doogan, 2009; Sennett, 2006)....
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...Third, the ‘new’ demands claimed in new capitalism of work intensification, contingency, mobility, eroded loyalty and tenuous worker−employer links (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2007; Sennett, 2006) may particularly affect long-experienced, ageing professionals whose practice was shaped in different…...
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...Older professionals’ learning needs to be understood within broader dynamics of workplace ageism as well as within the shifting work arrangements and intensifications in what critical writers have described as ‘new capitalism’ (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2007; Doogan, 2009; Sennett, 2006)....
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TL;DR: Corporate gifts from philanthropic donations to individual reward schemes attract considerable attention from scholars for the kinds of moral, economic and political logics that motivate them as mentioned in this paper, and they attract considerable interest from scholars.
Abstract: Corporate gifts – from philanthropic donations to individual reward schemes – attract considerable attention from scholars for the kinds of moral, economic and political logics that motivate them. ...
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...Here, then, we encounter one of the points of convergence between social theory and modern managerial discourse (Boltanski and Chiapello, 2007)....
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01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: A collection of essays from some of those closely involved in developing new models of collaboration in investigative journalism can be found in this paper, which offers lessons from some recent major investigations, like The Panama and Paradise Papers and Edward Snowden's NSA files, and a framework for others seeking to mount major collaborative investigations in future.
Abstract: Recent major leaks of documents and data have seen new approaches to investigative journalism develop. Collaboration across countries and across organisations has been necessary to share the scale of the investigation, share expertise, and co-ordinate publication to maximise impact.
This new model of collaboration, in an industry otherwise focused on exclusivity, indicates ways of adapting to technological, business and political change to strengthen accountability journalism at a time when it is under pressure from multiple directions.
This book is a collection of essays from some of those closely involved in developing new models of collaboration in investigative journalism. It offers lessons from some of the recent major investigations, like The Panama and Paradise Papers and Edward Snowden’s NSA files, and a framework for others seeking to mount major collaborative investigations in future.
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TL;DR: Dromi and Illouz as mentioned in this paper argued that novels serve as critiques in their ability to formalize and dramatize generalizable logics of evaluation and to elicit debates by pointing to the inadequacies of, and clashes between, such evaluative logics in the lives of their characters.
Abstract: The disciplines of sociology and literary studies have seen a renewed interest in morality and in ethics in recent decades, but there has been little dialogue between the two. Recognizing that literary works, both classical and popular, can serve as moral critiques and that readers, of all types and classes, can and often do serve as moral critics, this paper seeks to apply some insights of pragmatic sociology to the field of literature by exploring the ways in which moral claims are expressed, evaluated, and negotiated by texts and through texts by readers. Drawing on the new French pragmatic sociology, represented by sociologists such as Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot, this paper claims that fiction has a twofold role in civil society. Firstly, novels serve as critiques in their ability to formalize and dramatize generalizable logics of evaluation and to elicit debates by pointing to the inadequacies of, and clashes between, such evaluative logics in the lives of their characters. Secondly, the reading public is often moved to form its own critiques of a novel, in praise or in denunciation of its content, its form, or its perceived intent, and in doing so exercises its moral capacity in the public sphere. Copyright © 2010 New Literary History, The University of Virginia. This article first appeared in NEW LITERARY HISTORY Volume 41, Issue 2, Spring 2010, pages 351-369. i Yale University. Direct correspondences to the Department of Sociology, Yale University, 493 College St., New Haven, CT 06511; shai.dromi@yale.edu . ii Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1 RH: Recovering Morality Recovering Morality: Pragmatic Sociology and Literary Studies Shai Dromi and Eva Illouz Recent decades have witnessed the rediscovery of the moral and ethical dimensions of literary texts. Under the impetus of the growing interest in the works of Emmanuel Levinas and the criticism promoted by philosophers such as Martha Nussbaum and Richard Rorty—who conceive of literature as a site for the formulation of ethical dilemmas 1 —literary scholarship has turned towards ethics. This movement, which first gained prominence in the mid-1980s, was undoubtedly a response to the formalism of structuralism and post-structuralism. Questions of otherness, of singularity, of the relation of ethics and aesthetics, of universalism and responsibility became increasingly pertinent for literary scholars as different as Wayne C. Booth and J. Hillis Miller, leading the discipline towards a new concern with the moral dimensions of texts and of reading. 2 A turn towards morality has also been evident in various branches of contemporary sociology. Departing from the dominant paradigms of rational choice theory on the one hand and critical theory on the other, sociologists have elaborated new and insightful ways of accounting for the moral dimension of social life. Through his interpretation and revitalization of Émile Durkheim, sociologist Jeffrey Alexander has unraveled the fundamental role of social “goods” and “evils” in modern societies, demonstrating the centrality of morality in the eruption and management of public scandals, in practices of inclusion and exclusion, and in the very underpinnings of democratic life. 3 A different perspective on morality is developed by Michèle
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TL;DR: In this paper, a discussion of the changes which the corporate law sector is currently undergoing through an analysis of qualitative data on the recruitment practices of large commercial law firms and a reading of the trade press is presented.
Abstract: This paper engages with William Twining's longstanding concern with law as a ‘practical art’ through a discussion of the changes which the corporate law sector is currently undergoing. These changes will be examined through an analysis of qualitative data on the recruitment practices of large commercial law firms and a reading of the trade press. The evidence of these firms' thoroughgoing commercialisation, and of Human Resource (HR) strategies designed to produce legal entrepreneurs, is suggestive of a Foucaultian ‘analytics of government’. The data indicates however that underlying the dramatic changes in professionalism, there are also significant continuities. As a result a range of competing rationalities and discourses are today in circulation in the corporate law firm – for instance, discourses of diversity/meritocracy/social mobility; entrepreneurialism; economic rationality and managerialism. These various discourses both support and reflect the complex of ‘modernising’ impulses, residual cultura...
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...The need therefore is for lawyers who are able to function as self-maximising productive units, with “individualized responsibility for their own careers” (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005, p. 166), but whose interests and goals are entirely harmonized with those of the firm....
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...…the successful career now depends on being creative and innovative, nurturing one’s own ‘employability’ through networking and entrepreneurial skills (Boltanski & Chiapello, 2005), but at the same time “sharing in our business, what our strategy might be, what our priorities are, the challenges…...
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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.
Abstract: Translator's Foreword: Pleasures of Philosophy Notes on the Translation and Acknowledgements Author's Note 1. Introduction: Rhizome 2. 1914: One or Several Wolves? 3. 10,000 BC: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?) 4. November 20th, 1923: Postulates of Linguistics 5. 587BC-AD70: On Several Regimes of Signs 6. November 28th, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? 7. Year Zero: Faciality 8. 1874: Three Novellas, or "What Happened?" 9. 1933: Micropolitics and Segmentarity 10. 1730: Becoming Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming Imperceptible... 11. 1837: Of the Refrain 12. 1227: Treatise on Nomadology - The War Machine 13. 7000BC: Apparatus of Capture 14. 1440: The Smooth and the Striated 15. Conclusion: Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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01 Jan 2012
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.
Abstract: The 2008 crash has left all the established economic doctrines - equilibrium models, real business cycles, disequilibria models - in disarray. Part of the problem is due to Smith’s "veil of ignorance": individuals unknowingly pursue society’s interest and, as a result, have no clue as to the macroeconomic effects of their actions: witness the Keynes and Leontief multipliers, the concept of value added, fiat money, Engel’s law and technical progress, to name but a few of the macrofoundations of microeconomics. 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. Very simply, the banks, whose lending determined deposits after Roosevelt, and were a public service became private enterprises whose deposits determine lending. These underlay the great moderation preceding 2006, and the subsequent crash.
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01 Jan 1967
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.
Abstract: For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Originally published in France in 1967, Society of the Spectacle offered a set of radically new propositions about the nature of contemporary capitalism and modern culture. At the same time it was one of the most influential theoretical works for a wide range of political and revolutionary practice in the 1960s. Today, Debord's work continues to be in the forefront of debates about the fate of consumer society and the operation of modern social power. In a sweeping revision of Marxist categories, the notion of the spectacle takes the problem of the commodity from the sphere of economics to a point at which the commodity as an image dominates not only economic exchange but the primary communicative and symbolic activity of all modern societies.Guy Debord was one of the most important participants in the activities associated with the Situationist International in the 1960s. Also an artist and filmmaker, he is the author of Memoires and Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle. A Swerve Edition, distributed for Zone Books.
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01 Mar 1987
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.
Abstract: "Relevance Lost" 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. The book shows that modern corporations must work toward designing new management accounting systems that will assist managers more fully in their long-term planning. It is the winner of the American Accounting Association's Deloitte Haskins & Sells/Wildman Award Medal. It is also available in paperback: ISBN 0875842542.
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