Flexible Capitalism

Author : Jens Kjaerulff
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782386162

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Flexible Capitalism by Jens Kjaerulff Pdf

Approaching “work” as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows how the perspective offers new ways to enquire about the flexible capitalism’s social dimensions. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change by documenting how, across diverse settings, “gift-like” socialities proliferate, and even sustain the intensified flexible commoditization that more commonly is touted as tearing social relations apart. By interrogating a keenly debated contemporary work regime through an approach to sociality rooted in a rich and distinct anthropological legacy, the volume also makes a novel contribution to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.

Author : Benjamin H. Snyder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190203528

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The Disrupted Workplace by Benjamin H. Snyder Pdf

The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible, often at a cost to their personal well-being. In The Disrupted Workplace, Benjamin Snyder examines how three groups of American workers construct moral order in a capitalist system that demands flexibility. Snyder argues that new scheduling techniques, employment strategies, and technologies disrupt the flow and trajectory of working life, transforming how workers experience time. Work can feel both liberating and terrorizing, engrossing in the short term but unsustainable in the long term. Through a vivid portrait of workers' struggles to adapt their lives to constant disruption, The Disrupted Workplace mounts a compelling critique of the price of the flexible economy.

Author : Martin R.; Sunley P.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0333691245

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Flexible Capitalism by Martin R.; Sunley P. Pdf

Author : Hartmut Rosa,Stephan Lessenich,Klaus Dörre
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781689325

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Sociology, Capitalism, Critique by Hartmut Rosa,Stephan Lessenich,Klaus Dörre Pdf

Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalism For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very word “capitalism” sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique is a contribution to the renewal of critical sociology, founded on an empirically grounded diagnosis of society’s ills. The authors, Germany’s leading critical sociologists—Klaus Dörre, Stephan Lessenich, and Hartmut Rosa—share a conviction that ours is a pivotal period of renewal, in which the collective endeavour of academics can amount to an act of intellectual resistance, working to prevent any regressive development that might return us to neoliberal domination. The authors discuss key issues, such as questions of accumulation and expropriation; discipline and freedom; and the powerful new concepts of activation and acceleration. Their politically committed sociology, which takes the side of the losers in the current crisis, places society’s future well-being at the centre of their research. Their collective approach to this project is a conscious effort to avoid co-optation in the institutional practices of the academy. These three differing but complementary perspectives serve as an insightful introduction to the contemporary themes of radical sociology in capitalism’s post-crisis phase.

Author : David J. Evans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000967128

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Transformations of Contemporary Capitalism by David J. Evans Pdf

In recent decades, there has been many attempts to describe, explore, and explain the new ‘post-modern’ capitalism of the twenty-first century. In this context, this book looks at one of the most exciting strands of this research in the late twentieth century: the flexible specialisation research programme (FSRP). Drawing on the history of ideas, discourse, and literature on capitalism of the last four decades, this book shows that although ‘flexible specialisation’ anticipated some of the ways in which capitalism was being transformed in the late twentieth century, they underestimated and failed to anticipate the forms of ‘creative destruction’ and corporate digital control which were becoming embedded in the global capitalist accumulation dynamic itself. The sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union and the ‘end of history’ failed to open up the pathway for new forms of modern social democracy but gave rise instead to the new digital Behemoths. Today, the classical tendencies of capitalism as anticipated by Marx are all too present and, despite talk of ‘post-capitalism’ and ‘digital/techno-feudalism’, the landscape of monopolyfinance capital has consolidated itself. The book counterposes the FSRP with the various Marxist interpretations of the capitalist transition, together with the wider social and economic theories that emerged in the first decades for the twenty-first century around, for example, the ‘great acceleration’, de-growth, and post-growth. This book will be of interest to all readers concerned with heterodox political economy, critical social theory, intellectual history, and, above all, the prospects for social transformation leading to social justice and an ‘egalitarian enlightenment’.

Author : Yos Santasombat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811300653

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The Sociology of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia by Yos Santasombat Pdf

Set within the context of ASEAN integration, this book considers how Capitalism from China interacts with the ASEAN Economic Community, considering the issue from a variety of sociological, cultural and economic perspectives. It examines some of the creative strategies – de-sinicization, re-sinicization and re-balancing – employed by local Chinese communities and ASEAN countries to cope with the pressures of Chinese capitalism. The book addresses the phenomenon of Chinese ethnic economic migration, particularly the social capital of being Chinese in South East Asia, as well as community building, the interplay between domestic politics and globalization, and the rise of Chinese tourism related entrepreneurship.

Author : Maurizio Atzeni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781350305199

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Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism by Maurizio Atzeni Pdf

An introduction to work and society for undergraduate and postgraduate students. This new text brings together international experts on work and employment from a range of disciplines to debate key themes and issues related to work in a globalised economy.

Author : William Roberts Clark
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472024919

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Capitalism, Not Globalism by William Roberts Clark Pdf

Capitalism, Not Globalism shows that, while much has been made of recent changes in the international economy, the mechanisms by which politicians control the economy have not changed throughout the postwar period. Challenging both traditional and revisionist globalization theorists, William Roberts Clark argues that increased financial integration has led to neither a widening nor a narrowing of partisan differences in macroeconomic polices or outcomes. Rather, he shows that the absence of partisan differences in macroeconomic policy is a long-standing feature of democratic capitalist societies that can be traced to politicians' attempts to use the economy to help them survive in office. Changes in the structural landscape such as increased capital mobility and central bank independence do not necessarily diminish the ability of politicians to control the economy, but they do shape the strategies they use to do so. In a world of highly mobile capital, politicians manipulate monetary policy to create macroeconomic expansions prior to elections only if the exchange rate is flexible and the central bank is subservient. But they use fiscal policy to induce political business cycles when the exchange rate is fixed or the central bank is independent. William Roberts Clark is Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, New York University.

Author : Chris Hann,Jonathan Parry
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785336799

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Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism by Chris Hann,Jonathan Parry Pdf

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.

Author : Ilaria Iannuzzi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527580213

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Origins of Capitalism and Jewish Ethics by Ilaria Iannuzzi Pdf

This book focuses on the religious origins of the spirit of capitalism through the thought of Werner Sombart. It offers a critical analysis of the link he makes between Jewish ethics and the spirit of capitalism. Sombart’s exploration of this topic has not found, to this day, adequate representation in the literature. As such, this book analyses the origins of capitalism through a materialistic and spiritual approach, thus offering an unprecedented methodological and epistemological path. It brings to light a different, little-investigated, avenue of exploration followed by the social processes that have governed the relationship between economy and religion, in the belief that this can generate new cognitive and development perspectives for contemporary capitalism.

Author : Brian Moeran,Timothy de Waal Malefyt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319743974

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Magical Capitalism by Brian Moeran,Timothy de Waal Malefyt Pdf

This volume of essays examines the ways in which magical practices are found in different aspects of contemporary capitalist societies. From contract law to science, by way of finance, business, marketing, advertising, cultural production, and the political economy in general, each chapter argues that the kind of magic studied by anthropologists in less developed societies – shamanism, sorcery, enchantment, the occult – is not only alive and well, but flourishing in the midst of so-called ‘modernity’. Modern day magicians range from fashion designers and architects to Donald Trump and George Soros. Magical rites take place in the form of political summits, the transformation of products into brands through advertising campaigns, and the biannual fashion collections shown in New York, London, Milan and Paris. Magical language, in the form of magical spells, is used by everyone, from media to marketers and all others devoted to the art of ‘spin’. While magic may appear to be opposed to systems of rational economic thought, Moeran and Malefyt highlight the ways it may in fact be an accomplice to it.

Author : Geoffrey Martin Hodgson,Makoto Itoh,Nobuharu Yokokawa
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843761432

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Capitalism in Evolution by Geoffrey Martin Hodgson,Makoto Itoh,Nobuharu Yokokawa Pdf

'. . . this collection will be useful to economic and business historians in reminding them that capitalism is not a monolithic and unvarying economic system.' - Gail D. Triner, Business History 'Although so many collections of essays such as the one at hand are eclectic and boring, this is clearly an exception. The strength of the volume resides in the fact that it establishes a dialogue among all the authors on the roots of globalization and what the editors call "the precariousness of world markets".' - Francisco Louçã, Journal of Evolutionary Economics For much of the twentieth century, rivalry existed between centrally planned and capitalist solutions to the problems of economic stability and growth. This changed in the 1990s. In that same decade, the period of rapid growth of the Japanese economy came to an end and by the close of the century, the American model of capitalism was seen as the only possible option.

Author : David J. Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1003350410

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Transformations of Contemporary Capitalism by David J. Evans Pdf

"In recent decades there has been many attempts to describe, explore and explain the new 'post-modern' capitalism of the 21st century. In this context, this book looks at one of the most exciting strands of this research in the late twentieth century: the flexible specialisation research programme. Drawing on the history of ideas, discourse, and literature on capitalism of the last four decades, the book shows that although 'flexible specialization' anticipated some of the ways in which capitalism was being transformed in the late twentieth century, they underestimated and failed to anticipate the forms of 'creative destruction' and corporate digital control which were becoming embedded in the global capitalist accumulation dynamic itself. The sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union and the 'end of history' failed to open-up the pathway for new forms of modern social democracy but gave rise instead to the new digital Behemoths. Today, the classical tendencies of capitalism as anticipated by Marx are all too present and, despite talk of post-capitalism' and 'digital/techno-feudalism', the landscape of monopoly-finance capital has consolidated itself. The book counterposes the flexible specialisation research programme (FSRP) with the various Marxist interpretation of the capitalist transition, together with the wider social and economic theories that emerged in the first decades for the twenty-first century around, for example, the 'great acceleration', de-growth, and post-growth. This book will be of interest to all readers concerned with both heterodox political economy, critical social theory, intellectual history and, above all, the prospects for social transformation leading to social justice and an 'egalitarian enlightenment'"--

Author : Charles F. Sabel,Jonathan Zeitlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521894433

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World of Possibilities by Charles F. Sabel,Jonathan Zeitlin Pdf

A bold and original reinterpretation of Western industrialization from the eighteenth century to the 1990s.

Author : David J. Evans (Independent scholar)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1032395893

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Transformations of Contemporary Capitalism by David J. Evans (Independent scholar) Pdf

"In recent decades there has been many attempts to describe, explore and explain the new 'post-modern' capitalism of the 21st century. In this context, this book looks at one of the most exciting strands of this research in the late twentieth century: the flexible specialisation research programme. Drawing on the history of ideas, discourse, and literature on capitalism of the last four decades, the book shows that although 'flexible specialization' anticipated some of the ways in which capitalism was being transformed in the late twentieth century, they underestimated and failed to anticipate the forms of 'creative destruction' and corporate digital control which were becoming embedded in the global capitalist accumulation dynamic itself. The sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union and the 'end of history' failed to open-up the pathway for new forms of modern social democracy but gave rise instead to the new digital Behemoths. Today, the classical tendencies of capitalism as anticipated by Marx are all too present and, despite talk of post-capitalism' and 'digital/techno-feudalism', the landscape of monopoly-finance capital has consolidated itself. The book counterposes the flexible specialisation research programme (FSRP) with the various Marxist interpretation of the capitalist transition, together with the wider social and economic theories that emerged in the first decades for the twenty-first century around, for example, the 'great acceleration', de-growth, and post-growth. This book will be of interest to all readers concerned with both heterodox political economy, critical social theory, intellectual history and, above all, the prospects for social transformation leading to social justice and an 'egalitarian enlightenment'"--