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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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Returning Life to Life: The Factory of Cine sin Autor
TL;DR: The Cine sin Autor model of production is presented and discussed in this paper in its capacity to intervene the modern factory archetype to reorganize production with the intention of returning life to life.
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Morality and the Middle Class: The European Pattern and the Norwegian Singularity
Rune Sakslind,Ove Skarpenes +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the existence of a Nordic case of middle class culture, by examining their evidence in the light of some central contributions to Western, comparative social history and cultural sociology.
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Serpica Naro and the Others. The Media Sociali Experience in Italian Struggles Against Precarity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the media sociali, a particular kind of media practice that had been developed by Italian activists involved in the long protest campaign against precarity, namely the Euro Mayday Parade (EMP).
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A structurationist analysis of post‐bureaucracy in modernity and late modernity
Louise Briand,Guy Bellemare +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used case study evidence to show that post-bureaucracy is less marked by a discontinuity in surveillance than by its displacement and intensification, and argued that Giddens' theories of late modernity and structuration contain elements that explain the emergence of new organizational forms, their continuity and transformation.
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Economic Crime and Neoliberal Modes of Government: The Example of the Mediterranean
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that resorting to the criminalization and reification of the figures of "evil" (the terrorist, the smuggler, the mafia member, organized crime) becomes an opportunity to organize the field of possible state interventions, the condition of new state actions, an opportunity, thus, to strengthen political domination through intermediaries and private actors.
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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.