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Precariousness, Neoliberalism and Social Risk: A Criticism Sociology Review on Post-Fordism
The objective pursued here is to examine precariousness from a critical sociology perspective, starting from three related pillars of argument: the...
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The Social and Political Implications of the Precariat. A Backlash or a Transformation of the Post Fordism Formation?
The paper consists of three parts. The question, what precarity could mean, is discussed in the first part. It contains a short characteristic of the...
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Digital Activism Within Post-Fordism: Interventions Between Assimilation and Exclusion
This chapter explores structural barriers to effective critical practice in Post-Fordist capitalism, with reference to Jacques Rancière’s Consensus...
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Platformizing Informality, One Gig at a Time
The emergence of increasingly powerful and affordable digital technologies with applications across a range of domains to extract business value has...
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American Sociology in A “De-Civilizing” Moment: The End of “Normalcy”?
This book examines changes in the “content and status of sociology” in the United States in the present and recent past. The author understands the...
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Moving Beyond Uber
Discussions on organizational models and work in the platform economy often center on Uber as a prominent example of a digital marketplace that...
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Capitalizing Contradiction, Capitalizing the Commons: Big Tech’s Neoliberal Commonsense and Marx’s “General Intellect”
The fundamental premise of this article is that capital thrives on contradiction, that the contradictions of capital are social rather than logical,...
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Critical Theory and Climate Change: Collective Subjectivity, Evolution and Modernity
The social sciences, particularly sociology but also critical theory, have still insufficiently dealt with climate change, especially at the...
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Domestic and Care Work in France: Legacies of the Twentieth Century
This chapter discusses the evolution of domestic and care work over the course of the twentieth century in France, focusing on changes in its sites...
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Regimes of accumulation and the production of the built environment of Cantonments, Accra-Tema City-Region
Sub-Saharan African cities have experienced remarkable transformations in their built environments over the past two decades. Ghana’s Accra-Tema...
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Performance Evaluation: A Key Element of Recognition at Work
Considering recognition at work to be a matter of justice imposes a new grammar upon the criteria we use to assess and judge people’s work. In many...
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Employment
This chapter examines the stratification effects of social protection institutions on employment. The conventional approach, supported by current...
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“This Is Like a Big Transatlantic Liner”: Contingent Converging Trends
This chapter takes the reader into the economic, social, political and cultural contexts in which the start-up city emerged and found its way into...
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How to Articulate Beyond GDP and Businesses’ Social and Environmental Indicators?
In the past decades, new indicators have been developed to provide alternatives to gross domestic product (GDP) at the macro level and to financial...
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Economic Strategy: Conceptual, Customer-Based, and Environmental, Social, and Governance Strategies in the Theme Park Economy
This chapter introduces a selection of economic strategies that theme parks use to achieve their economic objectives. The conceptual design of any...
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Migration, Youth, and Ethnicity
This chapter addresses the issue of ethnicity and international migration of indigenous youth from southern Mexico. It is an anthropological work...
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In Pursuit of Contemporary Chinese Social Theories
My hometown is located in a village in Longhui, Shaoyang, Hunan Province. My father is the youngest of four brothers. Because his family was not too...
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Global Cities and Business Internationalization: Towards a New Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
As urban centers incorporating worldwide command and coordination functions, global cities act as major hubs contributing to the global economic...