Capitalism

About: Capitalism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 27714 publications have been published within this topic receiving 858042 citations.

A Dutch Miracle: Job Growth, Welfare Reform and Corporatism in the Netherlands

Abstract: The Dutch polder model recently dubbed a 'success story' by Bill Clinton and Jacques Delors - plays a prominent role in current discussions about possibilities for a new 'capitalism with a social face', and appeals to experts all over the world. Just ten years ago the Swedish sociologist Goran Therborn described the Dutch employment policy as a 'spectacular failure'. The authors single out three policy changes to explain the 'miracle' that has taken place since then. The 'Dutch miracle' shows that it is difficult but not impossible to overcome the drawbacks of the welfare state and that in this age of globalization and integration, it remains necessary to coordinate policy on a national level as well. In the last section the authors investigate the dynamics of social-economic policy which will have to be developed under increasingly stringent international conditions

Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

Abstract: Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff Millennial Transitions / Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, and Jeffrey A. Zimmermann Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature / Fernando Coronil Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society / Michael Storper The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoreas / Melissa W. Wright Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) / Allan Sekula Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging / Peter Geschiere and Francis Myamnjoh Millennial Coal Face / Luiz Paulo Lima, Scott Bradwell, and Seamus Walsh Modernity's Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan / Robert P. Weller Millenniums Past, Cuba's Future? / Paul Ryer Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia / Elizabeth A. Povinelli Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils / David Harvey Contributors Index

The Politics of Production: Factory Regimes Under Capitalism and Socialism

Abstract: M ichael Burawoy, professor da U n iversidade da Ca l iforn ia , Berkeley, partindo de reflexoes das teorias marxistas do processo de traba lho , especia lmente da obra de Harry Braverman : "Traba lho e capita l monopol ista" , chega a conclusoes das impl icacoes para a pol ftica atraves de sua ' 'teoria de producao . " Os estudos deste teo rico sao rea l izados a partir de experiencias em cada uma das a reas por e le ana l isadas , 0 que dao ao seu l ivro , As politicas de produgf1o, u rn campo raro de comparacoes internaciona is e aprofundamento emplrico . Este e u rn l ivro cuja tese contem d u a s partes, ou seja , a arg umentayao de que a classe tra ba l hadora ind ustria l tern fe ito intervenyoes sign ificativas e auto-conscientes na h istori a , e q u e essas intervenyoes foram e cont inuam a s e r formadas pelo processo de produyao. C o m esta obra , crit ica o s estudos sobre processo d e traba lho q u e se concentram na expl icayao econ6mica e desafia a separacao d a base econ6mica da super-estrutu ra pol lt ica . Nesta l i nha , considera que a recons­ trucao do marxismo passa pelo exame de como 0 processo de produyao forma a cia sse traba lhadora industria l , nao a penas objetivamente , isto e , pelo tipo de traba lho que faz, mas tambem subj eti­ vamente , ou seja , pelas lutas engendradas por u ma experiencia espedfica ou interpretay5es daque le traba lho . Estrutu ra seu l ivro em cinco capltu los : 0 processo de traba lho na sociedade capita l ista ; Karl Marx e as fabricas satan icas ; a transformacao dos reg i mes fabris sob 0 capita l ismo ava ncado ; tra ba lhadores e m estado socia l ista e 0 l a r ocu lto do sub-desenvolvimento. A ana l ise de B URAWOY sobre a obra de BRAVERMAN e u m tanto paradoxa l pois , ao tempo em que a recon hece como insuperave l , se pro poe a crit icaIa ; ao tempo em que nega a infiuencia de B RAVERMAN n a sua vida d iaria , admite manter-se no marxismo e uti l iza os pressupostos deste teorico para enriquecer as suas ana l ises e, particu larmente , 0 segundo capitu lo de As Politicas de Produgfio . Entretanto , ao lado de BRAVERMAN , ele e crit icado por nao privi leg iar a s u bjetividade e pela postura essencia l ista , que tambem 0 faz superest imar 0 poder do gerente . Ao Emtender , d iferentemente de BRAVERMAN(1 ) , que e 0 ocu ltamento s imultaneo a gara nt ia d o excede nte e nao 0 contro le , a essencia do processo de traba lho capita l ista , Burawoy busca 0 seu fundamento no feuda l ismo, por considera r que nos modos de producao nao capita l ista a exp loracao e transparente . Com esta posiyao, fica a ideia de que os trabalhadores (servos) ass u me m a explora9ao de forma consciente e imed iata . Entretanto , a a usencia de evidencias emplricas e teoricas que confi rmerr esta ind ica9ao nos leva a questionar: neste caso , estaria 0 consent imento l igado a u ma pseudo-consciencia?

Investor Capitalism : How Money Managers Are Changing the Face of Corporate America

Abstract: A behind-the-scenes look at today's kingmakers: institutional investors. Out of the public eye, a small group of professionals--investment experts who handle other people's monies--are exerting ever-greater control over corporate managers, firing CEOs and pushing through 'restructurings' that cost thousands of jobs. Michael Useem's "Investor Capitalism" portrays the quiet, veiled nature of this dance of elephants, and portrays the enormous implications of its results. --John Rekenthaler, Publisher, Morningstar, Inc.