Resisting Neoliberal Capitalism

Family Matters: Neoliberal Narratives of Welfare Capitalism in Undercover Boss

This paper examines media representations of labor and working conditions under late capitalism. Specifically, it presents an interdiscursive analysis of the “reality” television series Undercover Boss, drawing attention to themes that reflect and react against the vicissitudes of the Great Recession and recent labor struggles within service and hospitality industries in the US. With corporate ...

Resisting Neoliberal Reform: Political Opportunities and Cultural Framing In the Uruguayan Labor Movement

New Heroines of Labour: Domesticating Post-feminism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Russia

In recent years, post-feminism has become an important element of popular media culture and the object of feminist cultural critique. This article explores how post-feminism is domesticated in Russia through popular self-help literature aimed at a female audience. Drawing on a close reading of self-help texts by three best-selling Russian authors, the article examines how post-feminism is made ...

Version 3.2 Hunter-gatherers in a howling wilderness: Neoliberal capitalism as a language that speaks itself

The ‘self-referential’ character of evolutionary process noted by Goldenfeld and Woese (2010) can be restated in the context of a generalized Darwinian theory applied to economic process through a ‘language’ model: The underlying inherited and learned culture of the firm, the short-time cognitive response of the firm to patterns of threat and opportunity that is sculpted by that culture, and th...

: Resisting History

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