To cite this Article Mills, Melinda(2004) 'Demand for flexibility or generation of insecurity? The individualization of risk, This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, redistribution , reselling , loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does ...

One of our first priorities, after the first week of the December 2008 rebellion had passed, was to record its most important events so that comrades abroad could have some first-hand information. The recording took the form of a rough chronology of the events in Athens, supplemented with a chronology of what had happened in Thessaloniki which was written by the Blaumachen group and other comra...

Adviser: Marco Abel This study revisits conversations surrounding the global moment of 1968 and the forms of radical filmmaking that occurred during that time. Focusing on the Newsreel collective and the Dziga Vertov Group from the United States and France respectively—groups that utilized very distinct filmmaking methodologies and produced disparate aesthetics—the study argues that traditional...

The sanitized environments maintained by multinational corporations in Malaysian "free trade zones"' are not immune to sudden spirit attacks on young female workers. Ordinarily quiescent, Malay factory women who are seized by vengeful spirits explode into demonic screaming and rage on the shop floor. Management responses to such unnerving episodes include isolating the possessed workers, pumpin...

Check if we need one Introduction: Physicists since a long time have tried to apply their skills to fields outside physics, with more or less success. Econophysics is a big fashion at present, though partly based on the wrong belief that economists did not make empirical observations of financial markets or made no Monte Carlo simulations where rational judgement is replaced by random decisions...

You must have surely seen that our good friend Dr C. Quince, has been given yet another huge grant from The Thanatology Foundation for a large project to find human genes for avarice and venality. The factories keep on multiplying and growing and I hope you are never tempted to acquire a dark, satanic mill of your own and join the band of new alchemists who turn gold into base pairs. Some histo...

The reasons are clear enough. Industrial centres were not, in reality, wastelands of anomie and alienation, but thriving communities in which close living, plentiful work, and high wages gave the new proletariat reasons for living, not dying. Increasingly, the most dramatically suicide-prone in Victorian England were old men-and male figures were notably higher than female-superannuated, and of...

That my approach to institutional theory has garnered most interest from students in business schools is ironic in that it derives from sources that hard-headed management theory would likely consider ridiculous. To put it baldly it derives from a double messianism, two unobservable subjects to come: the proletariat and God’s messenger. My initial preoccupation with the institutional level of a...

This book was written during the late 1980s and first published in English in 1993 under the title Towards a New Socialism. It is marked by the conjuncture in which it was written, the Gorbachev period. The Soviet system still existed but was clearly in crisis. Reforms introduced by advocates of market socialism were already begining to disrupt the economy and giving political encouragement to ...

This paper is based on and adapted from a chapter for a book project entitled Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics. The basic idea of the book is to get the facts right about China’s reforms. For example, one chapter of the book on rural entrepreneurship refutes the notion that township and village enterprises (TVEs) were innovative, successful local government enterprises. Many Western econ...