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It is not only organisations that can be prefigurative; so too can broader organisational culture, social relations, and everyday practices.
Prefigurative Politics
Paul Raekstad and Sofia Saio Gradin
That services are not amenable to the incremental process innovations that generate rapid rates of productivity growth is hardly an inherent feature of services as such: __in many service activities, impediments to raising productivity levels have been overcome, but precisely by industrializing them.__ As sociologist Jonathan Gershuny has argued, these services were transformed into goods for self-service in households, “the washing machine substituting for laundry services, the safety-razor for barbershop shaving, the motorcar for public transport.”
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
Law professor Joel Bakan,[*] whose book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power became the basis of the award-winning documentary of the same name, set out to assess corporations in the light of standard mental health measures we would apply to people. The appraisal is entirely fair, given that U.S. law has, since the late 1800s, regarded corporations as “persons.” “Viewed from such a vantage,” he told me, “many corporations meet the criteria of ‘sociopaths,’ acting without a conscience: not caring about what happens to other people as a consequence of their actions, having no compulsion to comply with social or legal norms, not feeling guilt or remorse.”
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté, MD
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