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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

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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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Démocratisation de l'école et persistance des inégalités : Mobilité sociale : La part de l'hérédité et de la formation

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TL;DR: The question des inegalites scolaires entre enfants d'une meme generation n'en devient que plus sensible as discussed by the authors, in which le diplome est de plus en plus necessaire for trouver un emploi, mais de moins en moins suffisant for acceder au meme statut socio-economique que les generations precedentes.
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Des Catégories aux Liens Individuels : L'Analyse Statistique de L'Espace Social

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of the quete de sens in the analysis of the processus sociaux in the context of the history of social sciences. But, paradoxalement, l'analyse hermeneutique des sources and des categories analytiques semble s'accompagner de l'oubli des paysages sociaeux concrets qui les avaient provoques and qui avaion rendu necessaire la quete of sens operee par les differents acteurs historiques.
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Diplômes et certification de branches dans les conventions collectives

TL;DR: Jobert et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the effect of Bewertungsschlusse in the Tarifvertragen and Berufsklassenschlusseln angegebenen Arten der Qualifikationsanerkennung.