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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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From democracy at others’ expense to externalization at democracy’s expense: Property-based personhood and citizenship struggles in organized and flexible capitalism:
TL;DR: The authors investigates the anthropological foundations of European democracies' continuous entanglement with economic and military expansionism and a hierarchical separation between public and private spheres of public discourse in the European democracies.
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Economic elites and new strategies for extractivism in Chile
TL;DR: Within the country's strategic copper mining sector, economic elites are begetting new political technologies that reshape state, economy, and society relations, to better anchor capitalist domination at the local level as mentioned in this paper.
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‘Leadership’ as a Project: Neoliberalism and the Proliferation of ‘Leaders’
Mark Learmonth,Kevin Morrell +1 more
TL;DR: It is increasingly common for anyone with formal, hierarchical status at work to be called a leader as mentioned in this paper, and this relatively recent change in day-to-day discourse is largely passing by.
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More Leisure or Higher Pay? A Mixed-methods Study on Reducing Working Time in Austria
Stefanie Gerold,Matthias Nocker +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a mixed-methods approach to analyse employees' preferences and the decision to reduce working time, with two empirical parts run in parallel, and find that the desire to work less is strongly moulded by personal values placed either on leisure and family time, or on financial security.
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Anti-Equivalence: Pragmatics of post-liberal dispute
TL;DR: The authors review how sociologists of critique have tended to treat critical capacities as oriented towards consensus, but then consider how technologies of real-time control circumvent liberal critique altogether, which abandons equivalence in general, instead adopting a nonrepresentational template of warfare.
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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.