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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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Elite Power under Advanced Neoliberalism
TL;DR: The authors argue that the eradication of jurisdictional elites is an effect of neoliberalism, as articulated most coherently by Hayek, and draw on Lazzarato's work on signifiying vs asignifying semiotics in order to articulate this, and conclude by considering the types of elite crisis which these forms of power tend to produce.
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Are They Leaving Because of the Crisis? The Sociological Significance of Anomie as a Motivation for Migration
TL;DR: In this paper, a sociological analysis of the migration motivations of highly skilled people who left Spain after 2008 is presented, based on in-depth qualitative interviews, which map the role that the crisis played in highly skilled individuals' migration narratives.
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"The devastating conquest of the lived by the conceived": The concept of abstract space in the work of Henri Lefebvre
TL;DR: In this article, a reinterpretation of abstract space, the key concept of Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus, The Production of Space, is presented, arguing that the full significance of the concept is only revea...
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Corporate Mobilities Regimes. Mobility, Power and the Socio-geographical Structurations of Mobile Work
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of mobility regimes and point out three discursive dimensions: the normalization, rationalization and time-space-compression of mobility.
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Social networking, mobility, and the rise of liquid identities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the mobility patterns of one Generation Y network and found that Facebook fosters corporeal as well as imaginative mobility, ultimately leading to the emergence of 'liquid identities' modelled on movement.
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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
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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.