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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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Anti-'68ers and the Racist-Libertarian Alliance: How a Schism among Austrian School Neoliberals Helped Spawn the Alt Right
TL;DR: This paper showed that the incorporation of right-wing libertarians into the Alt Right coalition was the end result of a schism in the neoliberal intellectual movement in response to the egalitarian challenge of the 1960s.
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Unpacking the Narrative Decontestation of CSR: Aspiration for Change or Defense of the Status Quo?:
Aurélien Feix,Déborah Philippe +1 more
TL;DR: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has repeatedly been described as an “essentially contested concept, which means that its signification is subject to continuous struggle as mentioned in this paper... "
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Bad feeling at work: emotional labour, precarity, and the affective economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for the ongoing relevance of emotional labour in understanding the subjective demands placed on those working at the factory and argue that emotional labour can be seen as a form of emotional labor.
Martin Kippenberger and Mike Kelley: The Artist Persona and the Precarious Middle Class
TL;DR: The work of artists Martin Kippenberger (German, 1953-97) and Mike Kelley (American, 1954-2012) in the context of postwar political and economic internationalization, particularly between West Germany and the U.S. as discussed by the authors describes the tactics that they developed to engage imported and imposed aesthetic vocabularies and navigate a nascent international art market.
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Constructing Work and Subjectivities in Precarious Conditions: Psycho-Discursive Practices in Young People's Interviews in Greece
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the ways in which informants account for working in precarious conditions and construct agency and subjectivity within these ways of accounting, finding that participants construct precarious work conditions as widespread and banal, by treating precarious work as a sine qua non condition of youth employment.
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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.