Full Description
Moral struggles in and around markets abound in contemporary societies where markets
have become the dominant form of economic coordination. The present volume
advances our current understanding of markets by highlighting the sources,
processes and outcomes of moral struggles in and around markets. It traces the
creation, reproduction and change of underlying moral orders and reveals the
role of status and power differentials, alliances and political strategies as
well as the general cultural, social and political contexts in which the
struggles unfold. The contributions to this volume reflect the 'moral turn' that
can currently be observed in organization studies and economic sociology, and
connect to recent developments in the sociology of morality.
Contents
Part I. Introduction Chapter 1. Moral Struggles in and Around Markets; Simone Schiller-Merkens and Philip Balsiger
Part II. Empirical
Struggles Around Morally Contested Markets
Chapter 2. Contested Markets: Morality, Market Devices and Vulnerable Population; Philippe Steiner and Marie Trespeuch
Chapter 3. Relational Work as a Market Device: An Analysis of the Contested "Voluntary" Carbon Offset Market; Alice Valiergue
Chapter 4. "This Market Changed My Life": Aspirations and Morality in Markets for Counterfeits; Matías Dewey
Coping with Moral Struggles in Moral(ized) Markets
Chapter 5. The Moralization of Labor: Establishing the Social Responsibility of Employers for Disabled Workers; Eva Nadai and Alan Canonica
Chapter 6. Playing the Double Game: How Ecopreneurs Cope with Opposing Field Logics in Moralized Markets; Lisa Suckert
Chapter 7. Ethical Banks Between Moral Self-Commitment and Economic Expansion; Sarah Lenz and Sighard Neckel
Moral Entrepreneurship and Moral Struggles in the Market Field
Chapter 8. Protest Rhetoric's Appeal: How Brands as Moral Entrepreneurs Recruit the Media into Moral Struggles; Verena E. Wieser, Andrea Hemetsberger, and Marius K. Luedicke
Chapter 9. Activists as Moral Entrepreneurs: How Shareholder Activists Brought Active Ownership to Switzerland; Daniel Waeger and Sébastien Mena
Chapter 10. Contesting the Digital Economy: Struggles over Uber in Poland; Marcin Serafin
Part III.
Chapter 11. Reflections; Patrik Aspers
