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A related anti-contractual feature of employment is that it leaves interpretative authority over the agreement largely to the employer’s discretion.
Algorithmic Management, Employment, and the Self in Gig Work
Julia Tomasetti
While exclusivity and overlapping business, social and political networks (demonstrated many decades ago by William Domhoff, 1967, 1983) still define elite experience, recent research has shown that vast income inequality exists within the richest 1 per cent (Piketty, 2014, pp. 315–321, 432–436). Hecht (2017) has also shown how inequality among the super-rich leads those at the top end of income and wealth distribution to experience “relative (dis)advantage” when comparing themselves to those wealthier than themselves.
Brazilian Elites and Their Philanthropy
Jessica Sklair
Because they fail to account for multi-faceted defining influences, marxist categories insufficiently explain even the economy, feminist categories insufficiently explain even gender, nationalist categories insufficiently explain even culture, and anarchist categories insufficiently explain even the state. All these foci are certainly necessary, but to use them optimally we need to develop a new orientation that allows us to embody refined versions of each primary framework in a new whole.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
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