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The Triumph of the Flexible Society

Author : Manuel Hinds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313057702
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of the Flexible Society written by Manuel Hinds and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinds takes offers a fresh perspective on the social, political, and economic disturbances now affecting our world. This book looks at those disturbances not as separate problems, but rather as the coherent symptoms of a deep technological revolution that is changing the shape of society on the scale of the Industrial Revolution: the Connectivity Revolution, the basis of the New Economy. Analyzing the resistance to change that erupted violently in response to that last major economic upheaval, Hinds shows how Communism, Nazism, and fundamentalism owe their triumphs not to the prevalence of poverty or oppression but to the rigidity of societies threatened by profound social changes prompted by rapid technological progress. Demonstrating that their rigidity was caused by the same kind of state intervention in the economy that is now being proposed to stop globalization, he argues persuasively that only a horizontal, flexible society can smoothly manage change in such a way that the pain of transformation—and therefore, the risk of giving birth to new varieties of destructive regimes—is minimized.

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management

Author : M. Ronald Buckley
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178635263X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management written by M. Ronald Buckley and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management is designed to promote theory and research on important substantive and methodological topics in the field of human resources management.

The Triumph of Emptiness

Author : Mats Alvesson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019163672X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Emptiness written by Mats Alvesson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Mats Alvesson aims to demystify some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, and leadership. He contends that a culture of grandiosity is leading to numerous inflated claims. We no longer talk about plans but strategies. Supervisors have been replaced by managers. Goods have become brands. Wealthy countries try to show that they are knowledge societies through mass higher education but with limited effect on real qualifications or qualified job opportunities for graduates. The book views the contemporary economy as an economy of persuasion, where firms and other institutions increasingly assign talent, energy, and resources to rhetoric, image, branding, reputation, and visibility. Using a wide range of empirical examples to illuminate the realms of consumption, higher education, organization, and leadership, this provocative and engaging book challenges established assumptions and contributes to a critical understanding of society as a whole.

The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West

Author : Ewan Harrison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137346868
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West written by Ewan Harrison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the paradox of the worldwide spread of democracy and capitalism in an era of Western decline. The rest is overtaking the West as Samuel Huntington predicted, but because it is adopting Western institutions. The emerging global order offers unprecedented opportunities for the expansion of peace, prosperity, and freedom. Yet this is not the 'end of history', but the beginning of a post-Western future for the democratic project. The major conflicts of the future will occur between the established democracies of the West and emerging democracies in the developing world as they seek the benefits and recognition associated with membership of the democratic community. This 'clash of democratizations' will define world politics.

Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings

Author : Dounia Mahlouly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755645197
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings written by Dounia Mahlouly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving practices of digital activism across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interviews and ethnographic evidence collected between 2012 and 2022. It examines the shifting narrative around digital activism in the region, from the wake of the 2011 uprisings to the 2019 series of protests coined 'the second wave of the Arab Spring'. It considers how media activists navigate the transition from the emergent to the mainstream in a climate of contentious politics, following the civil mobilisations of the pro-revolutionary youths in Tunisia, Egypt, and Lebanon. It outlines the particularities of these three different political contexts and media environments, featuring case studies of the Tunisian blogosphere, online campaigning in the Egyptian elections and interviews with social media activists. In light of this empirical evidence, the book offers a critique of the increasing prevalence of a security perspective through which online activism has been viewed and its deleterious effect on digital political engagement in the region.

Poverty, Class, and Schooling

Author : Elinor L. Brown
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623967678
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Poverty, Class, and Schooling written by Elinor L. Brown and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions to become non-exploited/non-exploitive contributing members of the 21st century. The series draws on the research and innovative practices of investigators, academics, and community organizers around the globe that have contributed to the evidence base for developing sound educational policies, practices, and programs that optimize all students' potential. Each volume includes multidisciplinary theory, research, and practices that provide an enriched understanding of the drivers of human potential via education to assist others in exploring, adapting, and replicating innovative strategies that enable ALL students to realize their full potential. Chapters in this volume are drawn from a wide range of countries including: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Georgia, Haiti, India, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Portugal, Slovenia, Tanzania, Ukraine, and The United States all addressing issues of educational inequity, economic constraint, class bias and the links between education, poverty and social status. The individual chapters provide examples of theory, research, and practice that collectively present a lively, informative, cross-perspective, international conversation highlighting the significant gross economic and social injustices that abound in a wide variety of educational contexts around the world while spotlighting important, inspirational, and innovative remedies. Taken together, the chapters advance our understanding of best practices in the education of economically disadvantaged and socially marginalized populations while collectively rejecting institutional policies and traditional practices that reinforce the roots of economic and social discrimination. Chapter authors, utilize a range of methodologies including empirical research, historical reviews, case studies and personal reflections to demonstrate that poverty and class status are sociopolitical conditions, rather than individual identities. In addition, that education is an absolute human right and a powerful mechanism to promote individual, national, and international upward social and economic mobility, national stability and citizen wellbeing.

Constructing and Sharing Memory

Author : Larry Stillman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443811467
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Constructing and Sharing Memory written by Larry Stillman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Informatics is a developing field which brings together understandings about the interaction of communities and information and communication technologies from fields as diverse as Management and Information Systems, Library and Information Sciences, Community Development, Sociology, or Social and Community Welfare. A key assumption of community informatics is that technologies can be used for positive social change and development, particularly with disadvantaged communities or communities that hitherto, have not had a public voice. The volume brings together international perspectives around defining and debating the idea of community memory which, as Alex Byrne, President of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions observed in his splendid and wide-ranging Introduction: "community memories are multilayered, changeable, conflicting and contested", and the multilayering, changeability and contest between different players provide fertile theoretical and practical ground for Community Informatics and its interdisciplinary cousins. "Community Informatics is an emerging new multi-disciplinary approach to the study of the intersection of communities and Information and Communication Technologies. This volume contains significant contributions from international practitioners and researchers in the fields of archives, record-keeping, community knowledge management, emerging information and communication technologies, history, community development-virtual as well as real-and Community Informatics as a growing discipline. The content of the book is a unique contribution in the field. The volume will be read by researchers, and communities interested in how they communicate their past, present, and future." —Professor Emerita Gunilla Bradley Informatics School of ICT Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm Sweden "Practitioners, researchers and theoreticians in Community Informatics will find a unique array of valuable perspectives in this book. It covers the interaction of communities, memories and technologies in a highly original way, with regard to its breadth and the number of case studies it presents. It incorporates contributions from 13 countries in all parts of our endangered planet, thus providing the international perspective that is critical to understanding how communities can use technology for societal good." —Professor Michel Menou. Les Rosiers sur Loire, France, Associate, Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Travelling with the Argonauts

Author : Małgorzata Irek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785338994
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Travelling with the Argonauts written by Małgorzata Irek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on rich ethnographic materials from longitudinal fieldwork on informal trading routes across Europe, Travelling with the Argonauts offers a new perspective in the research of the social space, reflecting on how best to investigate amorphous social phenomena, such as informal networks. Breaking with much current theory, the approach detailed here – the ‘Restricted Verticality Perspective’ – examines the horizontal dimension of social relations, and understands informality not as marginal or substandard, but as life itself, as the real experience of ordinary people.

Leading Missional Change

Author : Paul J. Dunbar
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620327899
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Leading Missional Change written by Paul J. Dunbar and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems that nearly everyone is talking about missional change for congregations. As a result, many church leaders are attempting to drive that kind of change for the ministries they lead. Some succeed. But many others hit a wall of considerable frustration as they find that congregations resist the very change that is so needed. The reasons for this resistance are many, and they are explored in this volume. What is required to move a church from resistance to readiness? Some resistance is deeply rooted in spiritual patterns. But there are other reasons as well, and they center on trust--personal trust in the leaders who offer missional change. For this work, the authors have done extensive primary and secondary research to identify patterns and behaviors that invite missional leadership. More than that, they've lived this out in their own ministries as pastors of traditional congregations. This book thus offers compelling first-person stories and congregational case studies alongside more generalized findings. Leading Missional Change was written to support pastors and other church leaders who experience resistance, to share wisdom and experience that may lead to readiness, and to give hope and encouragement toward a re-energizing of your own congregation.

A Flexible Future?

Author : Paul Blyton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110863340
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book A Flexible Future? written by Paul Blyton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Defense of Liberal Democracy

Author : Manuel Hinds
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623545099
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Liberal Democracy written by Manuel Hinds and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Defense of Liberal Democracy is a clarion call for today's divided time: a bold reaffirmation of the liberal democratic principles that have carried America through each crisis in its history--and can do so again. Merging expert historical, political, and economic analysis, In Defense of Liberal Democracy shows how our recent technological revolution--what high-profile economist Manuel Hinds calls the Connectivity Revolution--has led to a crisis of divisiveness. Assessing the angry rhetoric and polarization of current political and social discourse in the US, Hinds considers the dangers of seeking populist solutions to our current upheaval and shows how the traditions and institutions of liberal democracy restored prosperity, freedom, and social equity during the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, and other periods of political instability. Hinds examines our national past and present (up to and including the 2020 presidential election) to illustrate how current events can be as dramatic as any historical legacy in warning us of the danger of abandoning our democratic principles.

The Triumph of Managerialism?

Author : Anna Yeatman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786604892
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Book Synopsis The Triumph of Managerialism? by : Anna Yeatman

Download or read book The Triumph of Managerialism? written by Anna Yeatman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents a critical dialogue on managerialist forms of government between philosophy, political thought, organisational and management theory. The volume brings together essays that are concerned with technologies of government that are articulated as different iterations of managerialism. The hallmark of managerialist discourse is value, considered as a quantifiable abstraction, where the intention is to always ‘add value’. The central question addressed here by a team of international expert authors from across a range of disciplines is this: in what ways has this abstraction of value impacted on the substantive work and ethical integrity of government and the public sector, and, more broadly, of the professions (including that of management itself)? Has it displaced this work, or simply recast it? The volume addresses audiences in social sciences, philosophy, management, business, and organisational studies.

The Computer Culture Reader

Author : Joseph R. Chaney
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443806668
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Computer Culture Reader written by Joseph R. Chaney and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Computer Culture Reader brings together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to probe the underlying structures and overarching implications of the ways in which people and computers collaborate in the production of meaning. The contributors navigate the heady and sometimes terrifying atmosphere surrounding the digital revolution in an attempt to take its measure through examinations of community and modes of communication, representation, information-production, learning, work, and play. The authors address questions of art, reality, literacy, history, heroism, commerce, crime, and death, as well as specific technologies ranging from corporate web portals and computer games to social networking applications and virtual museums. In all, the essayists work around and through the notion that the desire to communicate is at the heart of the digital age, and that the opportunity for private and public expression has taken a commanding hold on the modern imagination. The contributors argue, ultimately, that the reference ﬁeld for the technological and cultural changes at the root of the digital revolution extends well beyond any specific locality, nationality, discourse, or discipline. Consequently, this volume advocates for an adaptable perspective that delivers new insights about the robust and fragile relationships between computers and people.

Foundations of Ministry

Author : Michael J. Anthony
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1441206574
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Ministry written by Michael J. Anthony and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develop an excellent Christian education ministry with this introductory guide from the faculty of Biola University's Talbot School of Theology.

The American Economic Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The American Economic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Macropolitics

Author : Morton A. Kaplan
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macropolitics written by Morton A. Kaplan and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1969 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of Flexibility

Author : Guy Standing
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789221077442
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Flexibility written by Guy Standing and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1991 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perestroika in the Soviet Union has necessitated a radical transformation of the labour market. This book encompasses a broad range of views of labour policy-makers and economists from the USSR and abroad. It analyzes recent developments in employment, unemployment, wages and social protection.