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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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Control by numbers: new managerialism and ranking in higher education
TL;DR: The role of rankings as an instrument of new managerialism is examined in this paper, where the authors show how rankings are reconstituting the purpose of universities, the role of academics and the definition of what it is to be a student.
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Transnational Migration and the Emergence of the European Border Regime: An Ethnographic Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the agency of migrants in the conceptualization of borders is brought to the fore by taking as a starting point the struggles of mobility, and it is shown that borders are daily being crossed by migrants.
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The Confidence Cult(ure)
Rosalind Gill,Shani Orgad +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how confidence has become a technology of self that invites girls and women to work on themselves, and examine the continuities in the way that exponents of the confidence cult(ure) name, diagnose and propose solutions to archetypal feminist questions about labour, value and the body.
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Resisters at Work: Generating Productive Resistance in the Workplace
TL;DR: This paper shows that resistance can be better explained by what resisters do to achieve their ends rather than by seeing resistance as a fixed opposition between irreconcilable adversaries.
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Beyond Power and Resistance: New Approaches to Organizational Politics
Peter Fleming,André Spicer +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that power and resistance should be considered as a singular dynamic called struggle, and propose that because of changing workplace dynamics, power and resistances are increasingly intertwined.
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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.