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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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Social Innovations in the Urban Context
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye, and they focus on innovations that aim at solving problems of the young unemployed, single parents and migrants.
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Learning to (Love) Labour: Production Cultures and the Affective Turn
TL;DR: This article introduced the concept of "affective labour" in media and cultural theory with a view to broadening the ethical horizon of current research into production cultures, and provided a brief introduction to the concept.
The economic sociology of capitalism: an introduction and agenda
TL;DR: Nee and Swedenberg as discussed by the authors published a book called The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, which is a collection of essays about the economic sociology of capitalism and its relationship to the social sciences.
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The endurance of critique
TL;DR: In this article, a reflection on the challenges faced by the practice of critical thinking in anthropology based on my own research on AIDS in South Africa, trauma among Palestinians, and policing and punishment in France, while resituating the questions it raises in a broader history of the discipline.
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The conventions of agri-environmental practice in New Zealand: farmers, retail driven audit schemes and a new spirit of farming
TL;DR: In New Zealand, the incorporation of auditing within standard management practice involves a negotiated process in which the farmers employ strategic justifications of their capability (and value) relative to the quality designations established by the audit 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.