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The New Spirit of Capitalism

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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.
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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.

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In the social factory? Immaterial labour, precariousness and cultural work

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

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

Ronen Shamir
- 16 Jan 2008 - 
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

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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Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme

TL;DR: In this article, Eve Chiapello et Luc Boltanski tracent les contours du nouvel esprit du capitalisme a partir d'une analyse inedite des textes de management which ont nourri la pensee du patronat, irrigue les nouveaux modes d'organisation des entreprises.
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Tools for Conviviality

Ivan Illich
TL;DR: The multidimensional analysis of ceilings for industrial growth was first formulated in a Spanish document co-authored by Valentina Borremans and myself and submitted as a guideline for a meeting of two dozen Chilean socialists and other Latin Americans at CIDOC (the Center for Intercultural Documentation) in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
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Culture, Class, and Connections

TL;DR: Bourdieu's analysis of class and culture errs in neglecting two important aspects of social structure: social networks and class relations at work He expects high-status culture to be useful in class because it is correlated with class, but culture used at work includes both genres related to class and genres unrelated to class.
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Models of Network Structure

Ronald S. Burt
- 01 Aug 1980 - 
TL;DR: The actor-status epistemic linkage is thus logically isomorphic with the in-icator-concept epistemic correlation as discussed by the authors, and the well developed statistics of multiple indicator structural equation models (e.g. Bielby & Hauser 1 977) can be used to test hypotheses regarding the status /role set duality.
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Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a private-public cycle of consumer disappointment in the Eighteenth century in England and France, and explain changes in life-styles: ideology and second-order volumes.