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Hacktivism and Cyberwars

Rebels with a Cause?

By Tim Jordan, Paul Taylor

As global society becomes more and more dependent, politically and economically, on the flow of information, the power of those who can disrupt and manipulate…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26004-6 (Routledge)

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Food and Cultural Studies

By Bob Ashley, Joanne Hollows, Steve Jones, Ben Taylor

What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27039-7 (Routledge)

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Learning to Labor in New Times

Edited by Nadine Dolby, Greg Dimitriadis

Learning to Labor in New Times foregrounds nine essays which re-examine the work of noted sociologist Paul Willis, 25 years after the publication of his…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94855-5 (Routledge)

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Contemporary Culture and Everyday Life

Edited by Elizabeth Silva, Tony Bennett

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the everyday lives of people in the industrialized western world are being changed by shifts in traditional assumptions…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-1-903457-09-2 (Routledge-Cavendish)

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Advertising Myths

The Strange Half-Lives of Images and Commodities

By Anne Cronin

Advertising is often portrayed negatively, as corrupting a mythically pure relationship between people and things. In Advertising Myths Anne Cronin argues that it is better…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28174-4 (Routledge)

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Gender and Leisure

Social and Cultural Perspectives

By Cara Carmichael Aitchison

The highly contested nature of both 'gender' and 'leisure' encapsulates many of the most critical social and cultural debates of the early twenty-first century. Drawing…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26156-2 (Routledge)

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Scientific Management

By Frederick Winslow Taylor

This volume comprises three works originally published separately as Shop Management (1903), The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) and Testimony Before the Special House Committee…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27983-3 (Routledge)

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The Philosophy of Management

By Oliver Sheldon

Taylorism was criticised for its over-simplistic view of what motivated the worker. Oliver Sheldon's theme was that though Taylorism had helped the development of a…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27984-0 (Routledge)

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Dynamic Administration

The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett

Edited by Henry C. Metcalf, L. Urwick

Mary Parker Follett was a prominent business philosopher of the period, who agreed with Sheldon about the need to emphasize human factors in management, but…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27985-7 (Routledge)

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Papers on the Science of Administration

Edited by Luther Gulick, L. Urwick

This edited collection includes contributions by Mary Parker Follett, Henri Fayol, James D. Mooney and Henry S. Dennison, and L. J. Henderson, T. N. Whitehead…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27986-4 (Routledge)

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