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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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Austere creativity and volunteer-run public services: The case of Lewisham's libraries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the mobilisation of the concept of "creativity" within the austerity context; stripped of any oppositional or transgressive aspects, it is used to mean the resourcefulness and ingenuity of citizens to adapt and 'problem-solve' in the face of cuts to the welfare state.
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Economies of Character (or, Character in the Age of Big Data)
TL;DR: In the age of big data, character becomes a newly foregrounded object -and product -of scrutiny as discussed by the authors, and a significant response to such problems can be found in works that disturb the distinction between embedded, first-person perspectives and so-called objective, external viewpoints on their subjects.
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Exploring the performance of democracy and economic diversity in worker cooperatives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the role of democratic praxis in supporting a shift from the perceived dominance and homogeneity of capitalism towards performative post-capitalist praxes of economic diversity and interdependence.
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A Worker's Inquiry in a UK Call Centre : the Labour Process, Management, and Resistance
TL;DR: In this article, a case study at Trade Union Cover, a private company that sells insurance to trade union members, provides an important insight into the shift towards service unionism and its implications for workers and organisations.
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Designing economic cultures : cultivating socially and politically engaged design practices against procedures of precarisation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between the production of socially and politically relevant design work and the socio-economic precariousness many designers experience, and propose a series of conceptual and practical tools for designers that can be mobilised in the creation of economic cultures that defy precarisation within and beyond the field of the profession.
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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.