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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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Fear of the formal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the history of the "fear of the formal" and explore its contemporary manifestation in relation to recent and ongoing reforms of organisational life in a range of contexts.
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Thinking past educational disadvantage, and theories of reproduction
Robert Hattam,John Smyth +1 more
TL;DR: This paper propose a critique of critical sociology of education as a means of thinking past theories of reproduction which are the doxa for our field, and propose an alternative version of educational equality, drawing on Ranciere's foregrounding of equality as an axiom rather than an outcome.
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The Myth of Media Literacy
TL;DR: The authors investigates the convergence of forces in that propelled this approach to its currently ascendant position, and explores the techniques and rationales that have coalesced around media literacy, making it at once central to the operation of neoliberal capitalism and to its critique.
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Radical Online Video: YouTube, video activism and social movement media practices
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore contemporary modes of video activism for a radical politics of the left, focusing on YouTube as one of the most prevalent spaces in which radical video is screened and experienced today.
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Firefighters as exceptional: heroism, nationalism and masculinity in times of suburban riots and anti-racist protests
TL;DR: In this article, the growing field of studies on firefighters and masculinity may contribute to understanding how the masculine and heroic imaginary of firefighters may reproduce normalizing intersections of heroism, nationalism and masculinity.
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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.