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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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How digital fantasy work induces organizational ideal reversal? Long-term conditioning and enactment of digital transformation fantasies at a large alternative bank (1963–2019):
TL;DR: This paper provides a theoretical model of how organizational ideal reversal comes about through the co-evolutionary conditioning of ‘have your cake and eat it’ affordances, mimetic neglect of real ethical affordance, and structural transgression of the ideal in the name of market and technical discipline.
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Critical Perspectives on Testing Teaching: Reframing Teacher Education for English Medium Instruction.
Da-Fu Huang,Michael Singh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the role of corrective and transformative critiques in producing knowledge through testing teaching for reframing teacher education in response to, and as an expression of, the globalisation of English.
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Real Vegan Cheese and the Artistic Critique of Biotechnology
TL;DR: This analysis highlights the role that aesthetic and affective strategies play in advancing particular sociotechnical visions, and the way thatBiohacking projects operate in symbiosis with incumbent institutions even as they define themselves in opposition to them, and suggests that biohacking has certain limitations when considered as a form of public engagement with science.
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The struggle for social welfare: towards an emerging welfare sociology
TL;DR: The main aim of as discussed by the authors is to outline welfare sociology as a potential sub-discipline of sociology and to discuss the issues of broadly defined social welfare, while in contemporary social sciences the literature concerning welfare often focuses on themes such as happiness (psychology), prosperity (economics), or quality of life (sociology).
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The purgatorial ethic and the spirit of welfare
Tom Boland,Ray Griffin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors try to understand the irrational rationality of Active Labour Market Policies adopted across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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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.