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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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The privatization of development through global communication industries: Living Proof?
TL;DR: In this article, the growing dominance of private donors problematizes the conceptualization that development is meant to alleviate problems in the interests of the public good, yet the dominating power of the private donors in the development process hinders this conceptualization.
Giving notice to employability
TL;DR: A special issue of ephemera calls attention to the way this current preoccupation with employability tethers questions of equality and human development to the instrumental capitalist obsession with growth and renewal.
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Down with Big Brother! The End of Corporate Culturalism?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that employee resistance is implicitly pervasive, prefiguring subsequent investigations of micro-emancipation in management studies, and that emerging forms of corporate regulation utilize "biopower" rather than just cultural conformity.
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Personalisation, social justice and social work: a reply to Simon Duffy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that personalisation is also consistent with a neoliberal social and economic agenda which limits, rather than extends, social justice, and argue that this major policy development is consistent with social work based on social justice and that social workers should cast aside their reservations and embrace technologies of personalisation.
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Affective borders : the emotional politics of the German 'refugee crisis'
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptualisation and analysis of affective borders that brings together feminist, queer and post-colonial theories of affect with critical border and migration studies is presented, focusing on the mobilisation of three different affects in key scenes of the border spectacle that unfolded during the long summer of migration (the time period from early summer 2015 to the beginning of 2016).
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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.