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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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In the social factory? Immaterial labour, precariousness and cultural work
Rosalind Gill,Andy C. Pratt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a special section concerned with precariousness and cultural work, bringing into dialogue three bodies of ideas: the work of the autonomous Marxist laboratory, activist writings about precariousness, and the emerging empirical scholarship concerned with the distinctive features of cultural work.
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Apocalypse Forever? Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between the consensual presentation and mainstreaming of the global problem of climate change on the one hand and the debate in political theory/philosophy that centers around the emergence and consolidation of a post-political and post-democratic condition on the other.
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Quality standards, conventions and the governance of global value chains
Stefano Ponte,Peter Gibbon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that global value chains are becoming increasingly "buyer-driven" even though they are characterized by "hands-off" forms of co-ordination between "lead firms" and their immediate suppliers.
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The age of responsibilization: on market-embedded morality
TL;DR: This paper argued that contemporary tendencies to economize public domains and methods of government also produce tendencies to moralize markets in general and business enterprises in particular, and that the moralization of markets further sustains, rather than undermines, neo-liberal governmentalities and vision of civil society, citizenship and responsible social action.
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Economization, part 1: shifting attention from the economy towards processes of economization
Koray Caliskan,Michel Callon +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the notion of "economization", which refers to the assembly and qualification of actions, devices and analytical/practical descriptions as "economic" by social scientists and market actors.
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