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View article: Religious Conservatism versus Elite Professionalism: Contradictory Socialisation at an Elite Islamic School
Religious Conservatism versus Elite Professionalism: Contradictory Socialisation at an Elite Islamic School Open
The literature on elite schools seeks to understand the role of elite socialisation in reproducing inequality and the role of symbolic boundary work in legitimating privilege. This article presents an ethnographic study of an elite Islamic…
View article: Geriatric Capitalism: Stagnation and Crisis in the Atlantic Post-Fordist Accumulation Regime
Geriatric Capitalism: Stagnation and Crisis in the Atlantic Post-Fordist Accumulation Regime Open
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View article: Contradictions of the Labour Process, Worker Empowerment and Capitalist Inefficiency
Contradictions of the Labour Process, Worker Empowerment and Capitalist Inefficiency Open
I articulate a classical-Marxist theory of technical change in the capitalist labour process, highlighting two contradictions. The management contradiction is the conflict managers experience between coordination (to increase efficiency) a…
View article: Was Marx wrong about the working class? Reconsidering the gravedigger thesis
Was Marx wrong about the working class? Reconsidering the gravedigger thesis Open
This paper was published in the journal International Socialism and the definitive published version is available at http://isj.org.uk/gravedigger-thesis/.
View article: Lean Enough: Institutional Logics of Best Practice and Managerial Satisficing in American Manufacturing
Lean Enough: Institutional Logics of Best Practice and Managerial Satisficing in American Manufacturing Open
Rational choice theory has been widely criticized for its unrealistic assumptions that individuals have perfect information and computer-like information processing capability, which are used to maximize utility. Sociological institutional…
View article: Private sector management practices don’t work in welfare services
Private sector management practices don’t work in welfare services Open
They're likely to save money, but degrade job quality and client service, write Matt Vidal and Jill Ebenshade