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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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“We Are All Friends Here” Reinforcing Paradoxes of Normative Control in a Culture of Friendship
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore normative control in a culture of friendship and reveal how management seeks to foster informal, intimate, and friendly relationships among its employees in a management consultancy firm.
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Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
TL;DR: Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism as discussed by the authors is an investigation into specific cultural changes that have taken place in a period of intense socioeconomic change and instability beginning roughly in the late 1970s with the era of globalization and counter-globalization protests, through the Dot Com technology boom and bust, and on up to the 2008 global financial collapse with its aftermath of austerity and precariousness for numerous workers in the arts and beyond.
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A Bourdieusian perspective on strategizing
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive perspective on practice by taking into consideration the core notions of field and habitus is proposed to consider strategizing as a practice This emphasizes the 'doing' of multiple agents; the embodied and tacit aspects; the symbolic violence and power issues at stake As a consequence, strategizing refers to the practice of motivated agents engaged in struggles.
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On Some Uses and Abuses of Topology in the Social Analysis of Technology (Or the Problem with Smart Meters)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine different ways in which topological ideas can be used to analyse technology in social terms, arguing that we must become more discerning and demanding as to the limits and possibilities of topological analysis than used to be necessary.
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Critical reflexivity, social work, and the emerging European post-welfare states
TL;DR: In this paper, the main idea underlying the discussion is the assumption that current discussions about reflexivity are a response to a fundamental transformation of the social order in European countries since the 1970s.
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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.