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The New Spirit of Capitalism

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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.
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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.

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Green householders, stakeholder citizenship and sustainability

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how established notions of green citizenship might obstruct or foster opportunities for the practices that greens advocate, and introduced a critical pragmatic theoretical framework to establish some explanatory propositions.
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Vulnerability, Relationality, and Dependency: Feminist Conceptual Resources for Food Justice

TL;DR: This article argued that denials of dependency, relationality and vulnerability take the form of normal, but ethically problematic, attitudes and practices, such as reductionism, detachment, and privatization, and thus constitute the underlying shared roots of myriad agricultural and food-related injustices.
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New Trade Union Activism: Class Consciousness or Social Identity?

TL;DR: The Tender Cut as discussed by the authors ) is a qualitative sociologically-grounded investigation of the lived experience of a non-clinical population of people who self-injure.
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Forgotten Relations: Feminist Artists and Relational Aesthetics

TL;DR: The authors argue that Nicolas Bourriaud, the curator responsible for propogating the concept of relational aesthetics, reiterates capitalist exploitation of those who work directly for capitalism, by creating surplus value, as well as domestic labourers of social reproduction who don't.
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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

Paolo Leon
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

Guy Debord
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.