Daniel Bell’s landmark Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976) remains, 30 years later, the entry point to the rich literature on America’s twentieth-century culture of selffulfillment. After reconstructing the book’s argument with reference to Max Weber’s account of modernity, this article challenges Bell’s claim that Modernist culture and certain tendencies in capitalism threaten the soc...

This article analyzes the reemergence of the eighteenth century gothic tradition in the graphic novels of the twentieth century and asserts that the Gothic appears at times of great social changes. Hence, early or later examples of this fiction can be seen as metaphors reflecting the emergence of capitalism and the paradigmatic evolution in man’s epistemological consciousness. The target of cri...

This article points to a distinct puzzle in the analyses of capitalism that can be found in the works of Weber and Schumpeter, and gives a new introduction to their analysis of capitalism. Both Weber and Schumpeter wrote voluminously on capitalism, as testified to by such giant works as Economy and Society (Weber, 1978c [1922]) and Business Cycles (Schumpeter, 1939). One can also discern a dist...

It would do no justice to a review of the Republic of China’s centennial development if focus is cast exclusively on the ROC’ early period on the Chinese mainland, the authoritarian era in Taiwan, or the two decades after democratization. This article attempts to provide a broad overview of the century of the Republic by putting the ROC’s three developmental stages in a theoretical framework, p...

Abstract This article examines the employment of kinship relations in sustaining plantation economy and perpetuating precariousness child labourers who later became temporary workers tea plantations Kerala, South India. Kinship ties locked diverse into a moral obligation care that could easily be manipulated by management as form labour control. Plantation capitalism, therefore, sustained itsel...

This study aims to examine the mechanism of shared capitalism operation at the individual level. Building on both psychology and economic literatures, this study anticipates that shared capitalistic practices influence employees' feeling of ownership, which mediates the relationship between shared capitalism plans and employees' attitudes of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Furth...