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This article proposes an analysis of the labour process and the division of labour in capitalist production through a reading of Marx and a few others like Babbage and Braverman. The distinction between labour and labour power is used to expose the specificity of the labour process. Cooperation...
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Since the crisis of Fordism, capitalism has been characterised by the ever more central role ofknowledge and the rise … of the cognitive dimensions of labour. This is not to say that the centralityof knowledge to capitalism is new per se … for any interpretation of the present change ofthe capital/labour relation in cognitive capitalism. In this way, we show …
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The hospital industry could be characterised on the one hand as under “industrial constraints” (just in time, 24 hours opening, and on the other hand as a service activity with, in departments, a high degree of patient oriented activities. Very similar pressure are exerted on hospitals in...
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The emergence of a knowledge capitalism is often considered as an alternative to a financial capitalism. Our goal is to … explain why the financial capitalism hypothesis is not relevant to characterize and to show that the hypothesis of a knowledge … capitalism can provide an explanation of the growth and the importance of finance. Three topics are considered:(1) the new forms …
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fundamental law of capitalism originated by Thomas Piketty illustrate capital inequality undervalued than labor inequality. In …
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fundamental law of capitalism originated by Thomas Piketty illustrate capital inequality undervalued than labor inequality. In …
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The present paper examines the meaning and usefulness of the concept of a New Economy. This construct, which first began to appear in the media in the mid-1990s, is utilised today with a variety of definitions and intentions. Having identified three possible denotations or orientations relating...
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What are the implications of Piketty's Capital for sociology and political science? Capital's argument focuses on the evolution of the r/g ratio (capital returns over growth rate) and outlines two modes of economic inequalities. One is characteristic of affluent (g r) societies and the other is...
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