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Barthold, C. and Bloom, P. (2020). Denaturalizing the Environment: Dissensus and the Possibility of Radically Democratizing Discourses of Environmental Sustainability. Journal of Business Ethics, 164(4) pp. 671–681.

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Bloom, Peter (2018). The Bad Faith in the Free Market: The Radical Promise of Existential Freedom. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bloom, Peter (2017). The Ethics of Neoliberalism: The Business of Making Capitalism Moral. Routledge Studies in Business Ethics. Abingdon: Routledge.

Bloom, Peter (2016). Beyond Power and Resistance: Politics at the Radical Limits. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

Bloom, Peter and Clarke, Caroline (2016). When all that we count becomes all that counts: HR at the heart of the productivity shift. HR Magazine.

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Bloom, Peter (2016). Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Globalization. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press.

Bloom, Peter N. and White, Paul J. (2016). The moral work of subversion. Human Relations, 69(1) pp. 5–31.

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Bloom, Peter (2016). Back to the capitalist future: Fantasy and the paradox of crisis. Culture and Organization, 22(2) pp. 158–177.

Bloom, Peter (2016). Cutting off the King’s Head: The Self-Disciplining Fantasy Of Neoliberal Sovereignty. New Formations, 88 pp. 8–29.

Bloom, Peter (2015). Work as the contemporary limit of life: Capitalism, the death drive, and the lethal fantasy of ‘work-life balance’. Organization, 23(4) pp. 588–606.

Bloom, Peter (2015). Resisting the power of organizational resistance. In: Pullen, Alison and Rhodes, Carl eds. The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations. Abingdon: Routledge Publishing, pp. 368–383.

Bloom, Peter (2015). Fighting the “Real” Enemy: Fantasizing the Liberal “Final Solution”. The Library of Social Science Newsletter

Bloom, Peter (2014). We are all monsters now!: A Marxist critique of liberal organization and the need for a revolutionary monstrous humanism. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, 33(7) pp. 662–680.

Bloom, Peter (2013). Fight for your alienation: The fantasy of employability and the ironic struggle for self-exploitation. Ephemera: theory & politics in organizations, 13(4) 785 -807.

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Bloom, Peter (2013). The power of safe resistance. Journal of Political Power, 6(2) pp. 219–239.

Bloom, Peter and Dallyn, Sam (2011). The paradox of order: reimagining ideological domination. Journal of Political Ideologies, 16(1) pp. 53–78.

Bloom, Peter and Cederstrom, Carl (2009). “The sky's the limit”: fantasy in the age of market rationality. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 22(2) pp. 159–180.

Bloom, Peter (2008). Capitalism’s Cynical Leviathan: Cynicism, Totalitarianism, and Hobbes in Modern Capitalist Regulation. International Journal of Žižek Studies, 2(1)

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Bloom, Peter and Rhodes, Carl CEO Society: The Corporate Takeover of Everyday Life. Zed Books.

Montaño, Emilio Allier and Bloom, Peter (2014). The Closed Promise: The Authoritarian "Grip" of Democracy. Theory & Event, 17(3)

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Rhodes, Carl and Bloom, Peter (2012). The Cultural Fantasy of Hierarchy: Sovereignty and the Desire for Spiritual Purity. In: Diefenbach, Thomas and Todnem, Rune eds. Reinventing Hierarchy and Bureaucracy – from the Bureau to Network Organizations. Research in the Sociology of Organizations (35). Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 141–169.