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Another sociological utopia The polemics between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was originally published in Contemporary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews no 40/4 as Debate on International Sociology.
Piotr Sztompka
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Human rights and ethical reasoning : capabilities, conventions and spheres of public action [PDF]
This interdisciplinary article argues that human rights must be understood in terms of opportunities for social participation and that social and economic rights are integral to any discussion of the subject.
Bessy C +18 more
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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The Meaning of Work in the Digital Era: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda
ABSTRACT As digital technologies continue to reshape the nature of work, their impact on workers' experience of the meaning of work has attracted growing scholarly interest. However, the existing body of findings remains largely fragmented and conceptually inconsistent.
Yukun Liu +4 more
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ABSTRACT The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long‐standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, understood as an increase in employers’ discretion.
Vincenzo Maccarrone
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Manufacturing Consent revisited
The article briefly presents Manufacturing Consent, a 1979 publication directed by Allis Chalmer that deals with the way in which work discipline for manual labourers is organised through coercion and consent, based in particular on the establishment of ...
Michael Burawoy
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Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States [PDF]
[Excerpt] In this book I seek to demonstrate the state\u27s central role in the labor process by looking at racialized and gendered aspects of state policies, especially in the U.S.-Mexico border region. In the era of global capitalism—marked by the rise
Munoz, Carolina Bank
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Talking about the 'rotten fruits' of Rio 2016:framing mega-event legacies [PDF]
Legacy has become a watchword of hosting mega-events in recent years, used to justify massive spending and far-reaching urban transformations. However, academic studies of legacy outcomes suggest there is only limited evidence for the efficacy of using ...
Talbot, Adam
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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories
ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
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OS JOGOS QUE OS ACADÊMICOS JOGAM: UMA CONVERSA COM MICHAEL BURAWOY
Michael Burawoy, expresidente de la American Sociological Association y de la International Sociological Association, es uno de los científicos sociales más destaca - dos de inicios del siglo XXI.
Michael Burawoy, Guilherme Nothen
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