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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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Surrogate Labour: Exceptional for Whom?
TL;DR: In arguing against exceptionalism, it is argued that such practices cannot be adjudged through application of universal ethical principles and norms, but rather must take account of the complexity of the lived experience of all the participants, placed in their sociological and geographical contexts.
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From McLibel to McLettuce: childhood, spin and re‐branding
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report historical research into McDonald's public communication strategies as the corporation responded to the rising tide of "political consumerism" that accompanied its global market expansion (1960•2005).
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The formation of young workers: The cultivation of the self as a subject of value to the contemporary labour force:
TL;DR: This paper explored the practices through which young people cultivate themselves as subjects of value to the post-Fordist labour force, and went beyond an existing emphasis on young people's focus on themselves.
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'Hard Times, Hard Choices': marketing retrenchment as civic empowerment in an era of neoliberal crisis
TL;DR: In this article, moralized markets and markets as politics literatures in economic sociology are used to explore the emerging industry of private consultants who produce "democratic" dialogues for organizational clients from all sectors.
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Social Capital Online: Alienation and Accumulation
TL;DR: Social Capital Online as discussed by the authors examines the idea within the new "network spectacle" of digital capitalism via the ideas of Marx, Veblen, Debord, Baudrillard and Deleuze.
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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.