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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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Organisational dehumanisation: Authoritativeness as remedy
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract According to orthodoxy, the human relations movement was a watershed in rehumanising scientifically managed workplaces. In the wake of such purported reform, pundits (theorists and practitioners alike) have typically taken for granted that 21st century approaches to workplace superintendence, birthed in the wake of the Hawthorne Studies and ...
Jean‐Etienne Joullié +2 more
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The Voice Disrupted: Articulation, Hesitation, and Moral Seriousness in F. R. Leavis's Pedagogy
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Steven Cranfield
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Accountability That Keeps on Giving: Open Issues in the Delivery of Public Services
Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reviewing and discussing current “hot” issues in the public accountability of public services from the different perspectives of central and local government, healthcare, universities, and third‐sector organizations, this piece aims at open a debate on how to improve both research and practice in these realms.
Richard Baylis +9 more
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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Can Coercive Vertical Consolidation Improve the Financial Condition of Local Authorities?
Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Vertical consolidation of small local authorities providing neighborhood services and large authorities providing strategic services into unitary authorities is assumed to improve financial condition by creating new economies of scale and scope.
Rhys Andrews, Dennis De Widt
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Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines working‐class women academics' labor as constituting transformative praxis within the capitalist university. Drawing on oral history interviews with 28 Australian women academics from working‐class backgrounds, I demonstrate that working‐class women occupy contradictory class positions simultaneously, exploited through ...
Piper A. Bell
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Divergent Numbers, Convergent Narratives: The Paradox of Gender Pay Gap Reporting
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the first three cycles of Ireland's gender pay gap (GPG) reporting regime. Drawing on a longitudinal analysis of 546 organizations, the study reveals a fundamental paradox: organizations with dramatically different statistical outcomes employ remarkably similar narrative strategies and interventions.
Sara O'Sullivan
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultures and governance of security markets in the United Kingdom are often characterised through a paradoxical narrative of simultaneous state retreat and progressive advance. In the face of repeated recent high‐profile security failures, and global changes in material political economy, we argue that UK security governance is adapting to
Ben Collier, Jamie Buchan
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