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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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Rethinking consumer culture theory from the postmodern to the communist horizon
TL;DR: The authors explore the slow disappearance of the postmodern critique that challenged mainstream marketing and emphasised the importance of locating phenomena in their wider social, political and historic contexts, concluding that "the post-modern critique has lost its power to challenge mainstream marketing".
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Post-crisis, post-Ford and post-gender? Youth identities in an era of austerity
TL;DR: The authors explored the connections between debates about the transformation of work in a service-dominated economy and those about classed and gendered identities, and suggested they might usefully be connected in analyses of disadvantage and exclusion among working-class young people.
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Autonomy Guaranteed? Cultural Work and the “Art–Commerce Relation”
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine synthetically the concept of autonomy in cultural and creative industries work and discuss how this provision of freedom may then serve to underwrite autonomous cultural work of a more radical and, crucially, negotiated character than that conventionally conceived of in the orthodox critiques.
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Appropriation, Activation and Acceleration: The Escalatory Logics of Capitalist Modernity and the Crises of Dynamic Stabilization:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify dynamic stabilization as a defining feature of modern societies, which refers to the fact that such a society requires (material) growth, (technological) augment...
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Creative labour, cultural work and individualisation.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors distinguish between creative labour as a universal human attribute and cultural work as specifically a meaning-making practice in order to offset the way in which that distinction has become blurred in recent cultural policy rhetoric.
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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.