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Finance at WorkValérie Boussard (dir.) Routledge ISBN (hardback) : 978-1-13-820403-4 Date de parution : juillet 2017 264 p.In the collective psyche, a financier is a capitalist. In managerial capitalism, the notion of the ‘manager’ emerged, and the role of the manager was distinct from the role of the ‘owner’. Financial capitalism is similarly underpinned by financiers who are not the holders of the financial assets they buy, sell, trade or advise upon.Finance at Work explores the world of financiers, be they finance-oriented CEOs, CFOs, financial journalists, mergers and acquisitions’ advisors or wealth managers. Part I investigates the professional trajectories of members of corporate boards and financialisation as the dissemination of financial logic outside its primary ‘iron cage’; Part II responds by studying financiers at work within financial occupations or financial operations involving external actors; while Part III pursues the issue of financial boundaries by seeking out the way financial logic crosses these boundaries. Part IV takes back the hypothesis of differentiations within finance presented in Part I, and analyses the internal boundaries of asset management, wealth management and leveraged buyout (LBO) acquisitions.This book is essential reading for researchers and academics within the field of finance who aim to understand the ‘spread of finance’ in contemporary societies.&#160;About the editorValérie Boussard is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology at the Paris Nanterre University, France. Her works are focused on the managerialisation and financialisation of contemporary firms through the analysis of professional and occupational groups which take part in such dynamics.&#160;&#160;CONTENTSForewordFrank DobbinAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Financiers at work, financialisation on the march, p. 1Valérie BoussardPART I The boundaries of finance: Exclusionary process, social closure and inner regulation, p. 23Introduction: Interrogating financialization as an analytic, p. 25Karen HoChapter 1 Let’s make the company a bunch of figures: Professional representations in mergers and acquisitions firms, p. 29Valérie Boussard and Marie-Anne DujarierChapter 2 Matching the market: Calibration and the working practices of quants, p. 42Taylor SpearsChapter 3 Buying it: Financialisation through socialisation, p. 57Natascha van der ZwanChapter 4 Financial logic and bankers’ institutional entrepreneurship: The politics of the “zombies” debate in bankruptcy proceedings at the Commercial Court of Paris (2000–2005), p. 70Emmanuel Lazega, Lise Mounier and Sylvan LemairePART II Passing through boundaries: Financiers as intermediaries in conversion to financial logics, p. 87Introduction: Financialising economic activities, p. 89Donald MacKenzieChapter 5 The financialization of the private wealth of farmers: Is it the work of the banks?, p. 92Gilles Laferté and Abdoul DialloChapter 6 Financial backlash: When local bankers face social protest, p. 108Quentin RavelliChapter 7 The assetisation of South African farmland: The role of finance and brokers, p. 123Antoine Ducastel and Ward AnseeuwPART III Crossing boundaries: Individual careers as vehicles for financialisation, p. 137Introduction: The financialisation of finance: The transformation of the French financial elite, p. 139Sabine MontagneChapter 8 The second financialisation in France, or how executives and directors with unchanged financial careers promoted a new conception of control, p. 142Pierre François and Claire LemercierChapter 9 Financialisation through the trajectories of business school graduates in France, p. 156Valérie Boussard and Simon PayeChapter 10 “I didn’t leave financial journalism, I left classical journalism”: Careers and commitments of French financial journalists at the time of financialisation, p. 175Antoine MachutPART IV Internal boundaries: Diversity, segmentation, stratification within financial occupations, p. 189Introduction: Is sociology of finance a general sociology?, p. 191Olivier GodechotChapter 11 Early careers in portfolio and wealth management: The roles of class, race and gender in occupational segmentations, p. 194Stéphanie Mignot-Gérard, Constance Perrin-Joly, François Sarfati and Nadège VezinatChapter 12 Managing fortunes and privacy: Professional rhetoric and boundaries within wealth management, p. 210Camille Herlin-GiretChapter 13 The duality of the LBO field, p. 223Fabien FoureaultReferencesIndexVOIR AUSSIL’aperçu du livre