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An essay is presented on contemporary capitalism and its impact to different aspects such as social, mental, and religion. It states that capitalism structures a society and human mentalities as well as a subject of worship. In addition, religion would be the main definition of religion as what philosopher Hermann Lűbbe noted that religion is a praxis of coping with contingency. Moreover, sociologist Richard Sennett noted that flexible capitalism shows a fragmented social character.

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Primary and secondary education under capitalism serves as an ideological apparatus to construct productive workers who will participate in the extractive economy and consent to their own exploitation. However, some school children are marked as deficient--impaired, disabled, and mad--incapable of being good workers who facilitate capitalist accumulation. Just as capital banishes incapacitated workers to the reserve army of labor, so too do school children learn to "surplus" and "disable" their peers who do not meet school norms. In this paper, I use a revolutionary Marxist perspective to analyze empirical data from a grade 1 United States classroom where students were teasing a neurodivergent classmate and excluding her from participation. I explore how the teacher intervened by using critical literacy to design a curricular unit on hidden disabilities that would engage her students in transformative, disability justice, and how students built a community around their disabled peers. Along the way, I explore how disability is a relation under capitalism rather than an identity; how nature gives us diverse bodyminds but it is capitalism that disables us; how the education system in capitalist societies is a vehicle for the dissemination of ruling class ideologies of productivity; how some school children are surplused and labeled as incapable of being good workers who facilitate capitalist accumulation; and possible solutions--what educators, parents, caregivers, and others can do about it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at tracing the way the role of women has been designed by society in societies, and how it has begun to change with human evolution. Mary Wollstonecraft has asked very significant questions about women's lack of freedom in society and has demanded that she is given a life with equal opportunities. Art has defined beauty as something that gives pleasure to the viewer, and it is the woman who possesses this symmetry and beauty till a particular age, mainstream socio-political thought believes so. Science and technology's intervention with such perceptions, market forces, capitalistic globalization are the new areas that might bring in innovative changes in contemporary thinking, and women might not only be the only one who would be pleasing the viewer, but even men might join this process of pleasing - now as women are operating in politically powerful positions men might be required to please them - perhaps an effort to sustain the human race on earth, competing with the rest of the animals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Drawing on the framework of racial capitalism, this paper highlights two distinct but related dynamics of racial differentiation in relation to Amazon in Greater Toronto Area (GTA): at the level of the region's broader political economy and within Amazon's warehouses. I outline the ways in which the e-commerce giant both exploits and (re)makes the racialized geography of the GTA. Amazon's capitalization on neoliberal austerity and corporate welfare perpetuates class and racialized inequalities. These processes adversely affect these suburban localities and negatively impact employment in both quantitative and qualitative ways. In this context, I argue that Amazon's success has been, in no small part, due to its exploitation of Canada's racially stratified labour market. Within the warehouse, the notion that digital Taylorism produces an undifferentiated workforce and a uniform labour process is interrogated. Instead, workers' own accounts point to the ways digital technologies enable management to generate racial/ethnic differentiation and further squeeze value from workers. By situating Amazon within this specific socio-historical and political economic context, I demonstrate that the GTA offers a case study through which to examine the racial dynamics of digital capitalism and show that racialized and gendered social relations inflect the uneven experiences of algorithmic management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at analysing the manner in which the ancient and modern world conceived the civilized and the savage. People have always felt distant from tribal communities and have constructed narratives projecting them as inferior to civilised societies, believing in their own myths that may be meaningless to other societies and building peculiar practices that may seem strange to others like the Indian caste system. The Enlightenment philosophy's negotiation has been one-sided as the people with 'voices' and 'expressions' wrote their versions of stories vehemently denying the existence of the others. Human thought and systems of languages accepted the division of civilised as advanced from uncivilized. Still, humanity moves on including all people under the umbrella of democracy, capitalism, and globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes where Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics research fails and breaks down the dangers of well-intentioned but ultimately performative ethics research. A large majority of AI ethics research is criticized for not providing a comprehensive analysis of how AI is interconnected with sociological systems of oppression and power. Our work contributes to the handful of research that presents intersectional, Western systems of oppression and power as a framework for examining AI ethics work and the complexities of building less harmful technology; directly connecting technology to named systems such as capitalism and classism, colonialism, racism and white supremacy, patriarchy, and ableism. We then explore current AI ethics rhetoric’s effect on the AI ethics domain. We conclude by providing an applied example to contextualize intersectional systems of oppression and AI interventions in the US justice system and present actionable steps for AI practitioners to participate in a less performative, critical analysis of AI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a review essay of Ottavio Marzocca, Biopolitics for Beginners. Knowledge of Life and Government of People, Milan/Udine: Mimesis International, 2020. Pp. 457. ISBN: 9788869771781 (paperback). It focuses on Marzocca's investigations into biopolitics, a topic of which the author offers an original ecological reconfiguration. The proposed reflections, which address the recent pandemic crisis of COVID-19, are developed from the work of Foucault but are not limited to this thinker. In fact, they offer an articulate examination of the issue by also taking into broad consideration the thought of authors such as Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, Roberto Esposito, Jacques Donzelot, Robert Castel, Pierre Rosanvallon, Nikolas Rose, Melinda Cooper and Gregory Bateson. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays we perceive child labour as a shameful torture and a wicked destruction of the natural order of things. After all, childhood is a time for carelessness, fun and schooling, and children are innocent and vulnerable. Nowadays people believe that these are primeval and natural rights, which is not true. There used to be two models of child labour which I present in my paper. Domestic work in the countryside and in cities, characteristic of the feudal economy at the time when a workplace and a place of residence were the same place (this is still the case in the countryside nowadays), and work outside home, for example in a factory, characteristic of the capitalist economy. There were also varied mixed forms. Thus, in the pre-modern period, rural children were already given to work on a lord's farm, to a rich farmer, or to serve in a city. Similarly, in modern times, children worked at home in domestic industries. The extensive use of child labour was first made possible by the lack of compulsory schooling, which in turn later prevented regular child labour. As long as there was an economic need, however, school had to give way to earning a living for one's family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to study if Shakespeare had become aware of the role played by money in the common man's life. His Timon presents an excellent understanding of money power and describes its social role in humanity. Gold is a private venture and is the achievement of the rising middle class. Marx's Das Capital analyses the role of private capital in a detailed manner, while Shakespeare sums up the social and political power of money in a few lines. Timon of Athens is a great contribution to the political economy, as exemplified by Marx in his personal writings. This interpretation of Marx has created a platform for researchers to use literary works as tools to understand economic processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper, I present a Foucauldian reflection on our datafied present. Following others, I characterize this present as a condition of "digital capitalism" and proceed to explore whether and how digital conditions present an important change of episteme and, accordingly, an importantly different mode of subjectivity. I answer both of these concerns affirmatively. In the process, I engage with Colin Koopman's recent work on infopower and argue that, despite changes in episteme and modes of subjectivity, the digital capitalist present is continuous with biopolitics as Foucault understood it, though it does raise serious worries about the possibility of transgressive resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is dedicated to Dragoslav Avramović, a unique personality who played a key role in a historically important period for Federal Republic (FR) of Yugoslavia. After the successful implementation of his macroeconomic stabilization program, Avramović wanted to implement other important economic reforms. In November 1995, he prepared the "Program II" that contained fifteen measures, one of which was the "Democratization of property relations". Avramović formed a Working Group in April 1996 that was to prepare a privatization program for FR Yugoslavia. The program was soon ready, proposing obligatory, comprehensive and fast privatization of all enterprises in FR Yugoslavia, using a combination of different methods. However, Avramović's privatization program was not even officially discussed, since in mid-May 1995 he had to leave his position of Governor of the National Bank. The paper also points to the profound ideological differences among intellectuals at that time and to the wider consequences of Avramović's departure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper provides a reading of Jena Osman's poetry, specifically her volumes The Network (2010) and Corporate Relations (2014), as capitalist crisis poetry. Intertwining the self and the nation, the self and capitalism, and the self and the financial market's discourses of profit and profitability, Osman's writing shows that neoliberalism has taken over every dimension of life. Using the analogy of the conjugation, the analysis provided here discusses how Osman's explorative kind of poetry does not only generate a new "language" to talk about the ongoing financial crisis but, indeed, that it opens different ways of understanding capitalism's origins and forms on the national and international scales, including its unspoken and hidden histories, such as racial capitalism and the long-term consequences of colonization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper we explore how precarious work is being globalized across urban space. We tie the devaluation of labour to the growth of multi-scalar inequality through the COVID-19 pandemic and in the context of urban austerity. We also seek to identify opportunities for rebuilding worker power through a radical anti-capitalist politics attuned to cities in crisis. We argued that this unevenness across multiple scales creates openings and possibilities for future resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Class forces founded in production relations are basic agents of continuity and change in all societies today. The main distinction is between those who own means of production and those they hire to produce goods and services, along with others they hire to coordinate and control the producers. Of course, these class differences interact with relations based on race, gender, age and other specific conditions. But those analysts who choose to focus on these factors while either ignoring class relations or reducing them to cultural distinctions are missing the underlying profitdriven dynamic of advanced capitalism. The aim of this paper is to identify the basic classes producing goods and services in advanced capitalism and assess their disposition to progressive change. If we want to move toward a sustainable equitable future, we need to 'find the horses' to get us there. Are non-managerial professional employees' likely candidates? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A number of writers have pointed to the similarities of early Marxist conceptions of history and the arguments and conclusions found in the New Histories of Capitalism. Less well known have been the interesting parallels with the work of the chief proponent of the term "capitalism." Marx only rarely used "capitalist" to designate the owners of the means of production. It was Werner Sombart, the interlocutor of Max Weber within the Historical School, who did the most to promote the use of "capitalism" as a term and who most thoroughly theorized about its application to historical interpretation. This paper contends that the primary categories respecting the relationship of markets to war, slavery, and colonialism evident in the New Histories, and most especially in Sven Beckert's work, are to be found in Werner Sombart's writings. And yet one wonders why there has been no explicit attribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies entails the issue of displacement to the level of environmental degradation. Any dislocation or displacement involves vulnerability of ecosystem. This paper will try to show how the British settlement in Sea of Poppies, by causing the rooted native uprooted from their own place, gives way to environmental disaster. Ghosh shows in Sea of Poppies how the pre-colonial pristine pastoral remains untainted for a long time until the occupation of the British settlers. This settlement destroys natural vegetation of the place to such an extent that the lives of the farmers become unbearable. The land is losing its fertility. The indigenous crops are uprooted only to produce non-native products. The local people are forced to become displaced. The capitalist mentality induces the non-native to drive away the native from their rooted place. More importantly, Ghosh also shows that British exploitation has resulted in the crime against humanity, forced displacement, impoverishment of people, animals and their environment. It has also created 'either/or' situations in contexts of land and resource shortage or degradation. The women, in particular, are shown as the most vulnerable. Even the colonizers are uprooted in order to be settled in an alien land. So are their animals and crops only to be acclimatized in a foreign land. So this paper will try to focus on the adverse effects of displacement on the ecosystem in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses how the ‘Peace Mothers’ in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan are structurally located in the middle-ground between familial relations and the state, as they strive to come to terms with their children’s interpretation of the politics of decolonisation through the project of Kurdish democratisation and ‘revolution’. Such a politics takes its dominant form in the vehicle of The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a movement who see themselves as a decolonial and left-wing militant group, and whose membership is both young and committed to radical political transformation. At stake for the mothers of these members who have become an increasingly visible political actor in the Turkish public sphere, is a struggle with their children’s interpretation of possible futures, as well as being the middle-ground and the direct site of confrontation against the state. In contemporary Turkey, the ‘Peace Mothers’ are taking to the street, as their children are either in prison, guerrilla fighters, or as seen in 2019, on hunger strike. The children’s engagement with the state is hidden, compared to the struggle of the ‘Peace Mothers’. The ‘Mothers’ as such, are seen as confrontational, violent (symbolically), and as the so-called “producers of terrorists”. The ‘Mothers’, as (de)sexed identities, are transgressing norms of propriety, something welcomed within the revolutionary spirit of the Kurdish movement, which places women in the forefront of their decolonial struggle against the state, capitalism and slavery. The ‘Peace Mothers’ are a powerful antidote to the state, as voices of the demand for equal rights, as well as resisting the precarity of their existence as Kurds. The ‘Peace Mothers’ are constantly reminded of being ‘women’ through the sexual harassment and violence they are met with. Their bodies, therefore, become a site of resistance and domination. Drawing upon recent events with the so-called ‘Peace Mothers’ of Turkey, the hunger strikes and the centering of the embodied figures of the ‘Mothergoddess’ at the front of Kurdish decolonial struggle, this paper draws upon new data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey and interviews with the ‘Peace Mothers’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The erection and proliferation of baby factories constitute one of the major injustices directed at women especially teenage girls in southeastern Nigeria. Under this arrangement, women are incarcerated for the purpose of procreation alone. A litany of scholarly works has been written on this subject, placing the blame for this impunity, in Nigeria on the capitalist system. This paper insists that beyond capitalism, there is a need to interrogate the cultural erosion of values mostly responsible for this scourge. To achieve this, newspapers, interviews, archival materials and other extant secondary sources have been used for data collection, analysis and for the interpretation of results. The paper employs the qualitative method of analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientific objective: The aim of the paper is to present whether the linguistic self-promotion of "Wiadomości" ["The News"] in 2019 differs (intensity, content) from the self-promotion in 2015. Research methods: Linguistic profiling method derived from the study of the linguistic picture of the world, adapted to the analysis of media material, have been used. Results and conclusions: The intensity of self-promotion in TVP1's "Wiadomości" in 2014-2015 and in 2019 is comparable, however, there are qualitative changes (stronger exposure of relationships with others, especially belonging to the nation; an increase in the number of statements organizing the message, which are also a form of self-promotion; emphasizing the relationship between "Wiadomości" and Telewizja Polska; a decrease in the number of elements regarding gaining information and redirecting the viewer's attention). Cognitive value: The paper broadens knowledge about the self-promotion of the media, the impact of external factors on the linguistic shape of media coverage and shows a new tool useful for researching linguistic pictures of the world in the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the 1970s onward, the work performed by women within the household was critically examined, and a feminist critique of Marx emerged. The critique was first developed in the Campaign for Wages for Housework, founded in 1972, by Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James and other renowned feminists. A major contribution of this critique was to highlight women's domestic labor in the process of capital accumulation, an issue which Marx did not address. This movement therefore sought to make visible women's work which was naturalized into nonexistence by capitalism. This problem of visibility exists all over the world, and women continue to bear the brunt of unpaid care work; they are perceived as "natural" caregivers and shunned for seeking paid care services. Although this phenomenon is common all over the world, this paper will deal with the importance of making women's unpaid work visible in India, as India is a developing country and more people tend to engage in unpaid subsistence work (production for self-consumption, unpaid work in family enterprises and care related work) in developing countries compared to wealthier countries. Portraying the importance and challenges of making women's unpaid care work visible in India can trigger economic and social development of the country. This paper aims to put forward the value of women's unpaid care work in India, and to pinpoint the obstacles that stand in the way of exposing their unpaid contributions. Considering the context of India this paper will examine the following questions: 1. Why is it important to make unpaid care work visible? 2. What are the challenges of making unpaid care work visible? The questions mentioned above will be answered by looking at suitable literature so that theoretical and methodological issues that have emerged can be brought forward and the problems and recommendations can be grasped to arrive at a conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Small businesses play an important role in today's market economy. The success of small firms is largely dependent on the strategic decision-making processes that are employed. In this context, information technology (IT) has a critical role to play. It provides ready to use, end-to-end solutions and allow small businesses to focus on their core business. Recent innovations in IT have positively impacted businesses. With the emergence of web services, the convergence of telecom and computing is finally reaching maturity in a unified platform for doing business in the 21st century. Business enterprises have invested heavily in information technology and the benefits have been well documented. However, there is still a dearth in the current literature that analyzes how this digital technology can help small businesses. This paper seeks to fill this gap and proposes a framework that helps in choosing the appropriate strategic decisions for small businesses. It is essential that business processes are identified based on their cost, complexity, and criticality and then reengineered and automated based on analyzing the domain specific data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deploys a materialist theoretical and methodological framework to analyse and discuss capitalism's disabling phenomena. It is my intention to demonstrate how Marx's concept of a "relative surplus population" may be used to scrutinise capitalism's symbols, meanings, images, and practices which reproduce ableism as the norm. Bringing this concept to the centre of the analysis will help us rethink the impacts of class, race, ethnicity, gender, and disability on the working-class. I will argue that the neoliberal Ideology of Competence, reproduced in everyday life, is used to (1) strengthen and sustain the social division of labour; (2) disguise class divisions and meritocratic values and practices, and (3) preserve bourgeois, ableist, racist, sexist, and ageist practices. It is my expectation to contribute to the educational revolutionary debate insofar as the education of disabled people may stand as a counter-hegemonic practice alongside and intertwined with analyses of race, ethnicity, and gender in their intersections with the impact of class condition. Additionally, this discussion will also serve as a contribution to a critical approach to the neoliberal discourse of inclusion, which also involves issues of class, race, gender, and ethnicity. Thinking and rethinking these phenomena is part of action-reflection praxis of critical educators. Thus, I perceive this paper as a contribution to this praxis and as a counter-hegemonic manifesto. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bourgeois-based approaches to 'critical thinking' are failing to help students develop self-reflexivity and the capacity to think critically about the world. This circumstance has led some Marxist authors to claim that dialectics is the real form of critical thinking, so it should be introduced into teaching/learning activities. This advocacy for dialectical thinking has not been translated thus far into concrete course programmes or syllabi that help understand how such a Marxian-informed approach to education might be worked out, nor do these authors have systematically reflected on the potentialities and limitations that the embedment of dialectics into teaching may bear. This paper addresses both aspects in the light of a particular case study--the design and implementation of a course in Science Communication for graduates that has the theoretical and methodological foundations of the Critique of Political Economy as it basis. It thus outlines the contours of the study programme of that course; comments on what are the material bases on which this proposal finds its conditions of existence, and, relatedly, what are the advantages that this Marxian-inspired perspective vis-à-vis other approaches to 'critical thinking'; and theorises on whether it is possible to unpack the full potential of dialectical thought within the boundaries of capitalist education. The enquiry concludes that, insofar as the capital-form is a fetter for the development of the productive forces of society, it impinges on any Marxian-informed approach to teaching/learning activities in several ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Joseph Conrad wrote Nostromo (1904) at the crucial moment that witnessed the clash between the retreating nineteenth and the ensuing twentieth century. The period encompassed the point of no return towards the logical perfection of the Golden Age and ushered the world towards the meaningless chaos of modernity. The paper argues that being conscious of the approaching subservience of the traditional treatment of history to the random collection of histories typical of the twentieth century modernity, Joseph Conrad's Nostromo is expressive of the persistent longing for the meaningful, solid, epic-like occurrences from the past, as opposed to the absurd mutability of contemporary histories. Yet, this yearning is devoid of any traces of hope and is, therefore, indicative of Conrad's prophesy regarding the impossibility of certainty and meaningful history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As in the most parts of the world, India of today also is governed and determined by a socioeconomic order where the profit is privatized, while the cost is socialized. The world has been witnessing a vulgar polarization of wealth in favor of a few privileged with a vast majority of the populace getting pushed into the deeper ends of poverty and destitution. India is traversing this trajectory, more aggressively in the last couple of decades, since she opened up her economy to the forces of neo-liberalization. The worsening economic conditions would obviously trigger unrest and anger against those in power, and the ruling class in turn pre-empt the possibility of any such upraising by preoccupying the mass with emotionally charged divisive issues that pit them against one another. "Nationalism" has always been one of the most effective "emotional tools" in the hands of the rightist forces world over in the past in their efforts to ward off mass resistance, and now it is India's turn to endure the enactment of the same. While capitalism is tightly preserving the economic structure that enables amassment of wealth for a few, fascism in the hands of the ultra-nationalists is acting as its gatekeeper to ensure that dispossessed do not gatecrash, revolt, and thrash the capitalist castle. The privileged work overtime to divide the very forces that could form a threat to their economic fortunes and system of loot. This paper is a detailed commentary on how the above said process is currently operating and how it is weakening the democracy, diversity, and sustainable development in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As an important means of national supervision of market economy, the informatization construction of business administration plays an important role in regulating market behavior and promoting the steady development of market economy. The real estate economy plays an important role in China's market economy, but the rapid development also leads to social problems. The information construction of business administration and effective supervision of China's real estate economy can promote the steady and healthy development of the real estate economy. Based on this purpose, this paper first analyzes the current situation and necessity of China's business management informatization, analyzes the impact of business management informatization on the real estate economy according to the current situation of China's real estate economy, and puts forward personal suggestions for the future development of the real estate economy, hoping to provide some reference for relevant researchers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Global demand for Halal food is growing and currently about a quarter of world food trade with a value of annual Halal food trade about 2 trillion USD by 2020. During last few decades researches on Halal food began with demand side of market economy showing customer need & satisfaction issues, gradually researchers turned to supply side of Halal food industry exploring Halal integrity issues which has revealed that transportation & transiting has higher risk than manufacturing while determining Halal integrity of Halal products. Halal supply chain eco system along with all stakeholders have emerged as new freight service industry which is preferred by customers due to its perceived cleaner-safer & hygienic services. In current COVID 19 pandemic context causing global GDP shrinkage and trade wars across countries will adversely impact this Halal supply chain industry indicating need for rethinking on efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability of this emerging industry. Halal supply chain services are eco-friendly, preferred by customer and produces higher gross social welfare, but those benefits come along with a higher production cost compared to ordinary supply chain services. Hence policy incentives besides other sustainability strategies would be necessary for growth considerations of Halal supply chain ecosystem. This, theory adaptation category conceptual paper endeavors to analyze Halal integrity and sustainability nexus of freight forwarding services in an emerging Halal supply chain ecosystem in Malaysian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that the greatly increased emphasis in our civilization today on expanding one of the oldest and most basic values, the idea of democracy, has given the public an interest in wanting more participation in the decision-making processes that vitally affect their welfare. It is the thesis of this paper that an extension of participative decision making into capitalism could develop what is called a postmodern theory of industrial democracy. At the same time, such a theory redefines the discourse on empowerment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]