This paper argues that contemporary Western societies’ fixation on different elements of capitalist production, consumption and distribution lies at the heart crisis in mental health wellbeing increasingly experienced by individuals within key state institutions. The weaves together Lefebvre’s Marcuse’s theoretical insights to explore generation (time-)spaces societies, focussing higher educati...

In recent years, the Marxian concept of primitive accumulation has become increasingly prominent in discussions of capitalist development in third world countries. 1 It is argued within the literature that neoliberal globalization has greatly hastened the process of dispossession of resources through large scale privatization of land, water, forests etc which can best be captured through the le...

We analyze the venture capitalist's decision on the timing of the IPO, the offer price and the fraction of shares he sells in the course of the IPO. A venture capitalist may decide to take a company public or to liquidate it after one or two financing periods. A longer venture capitalist's participation in a firm (later IPO) may increase its value while also increasing costs for the venture cap...

In both original form and in popular discourse, Weber's classic Protestant Ethic thesis is grounded in the relationship between capitalist values and status attainment. Advocates and opponents of Weber’s thesis have primarily focused on the religious underpinnings of the ‘Protestant Ethic’ at the expense of the ideological dimension Weber saw as the key motivational force behind the rise of con...

Innovative leaps in digital technology alongside changing gender roles society may open a window of opportunity to renegotiate gendered work patterns. The main question addressed this article is the extent which digitalisation holds potential reorganise relations, and if so why. First, we elaborate on interrelation between capitalist societies. Our argument that shifting boundaries paid unpaid ...

The project that eventually resulted in the publication of Schooling in Capitalist America (1976) began in 1968, stimulated by the then raging academic debates and social conflicts about the structure and purposes of education. We were then, and remain, hopeful that education can contribute to a more productive economy and a more equitable sharing of its benefits and burdens, as well as a socie...

Abstract This article examines the emergence of global environmental perceptions and policies in preparatory phase UN Conference on Human Environment 1968–1972, based an internationally comparative study sixty-three country reports. Located at intersection global, knowledge, political history, raises two theses. First, that ‘the environment’ emerged as a field knowledge not only capitalist indu...

Since the mid-1980s, out-of-work benefit receipt in UK has been increasingly governed by a ‘workfarist’ mesh of conditionality and activation policies. A wealth research found that policies trigger range harmful outcomes for claimants. However, this largely ignores how claimants may struggle against these to eschew outcomes. Drawing on longitudinal interviews with 15 young men, article demonstr...