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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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Self-service media: Public radio personalities, reality podcasting, and entrepreneurial culture
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the initial seasons of two reality podcasts, Gimlet Media's StartUp and Stable Genius' ZigZag, in relation to neoliberalism and entrepreneurialism of the self.
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Realty Reality: HGTV and the Subprime Crisis
TL;DR: The American basic cable channel HGTV became the object of public scorn after the housing market became associated with the current and ongoing global financial crisis as discussed by the authors, and it is not the site of culture that has led to economic crisis, but rather a telling site of the culture of crisis.
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Managing the working body: active ageing and limits to the ‘flexible’ firm
TL;DR: Workforce ageing is considered in the context of four Australian employing organisations which are each in the process of change as mentioned in this paper, and policies which aim to restrain biological and psychological decline, by supporting individual functional capacity and health, workplace design and ergonomics and developing the work community are advocated.
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Committing to Internationalisation: Careers of African Participants at the World Social Forum
TL;DR: The authors examined the practical modalities of access of African participants to the WSF, i.e. how they actually managed to travel to Nairobi, through what material help and to what extent they depend on the NGO sphere.
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Marx and `Modernization': Reading Capital as Social Critique and Inspiration for Social Work Resistance to Neoliberalization
TL;DR: Despite the marginalization of Marxism with social work, Karl Marx's Capital still provides a devastating critique of capitalism and remains a vital resource for social workers seeking to understand and develop strategies of resistance to neoliberalization as discussed by the authors.
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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.