Liquidated
Subtitle: an ethnography of Wall Street
By: Karen Ho.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822345800; 9780822345992
Subjects: Securities industry -- United States -- Employees; Stockbrokers -- United States; Investment banking -- United States; Downsizing of organizations -- United States
Notes: "A John Hope Franklin Center Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anthropology goes to Wall Street; title: Biographies of hegemony : the culture of smartness and the recruitment and construction of investment bankers; title: Wall Street's orientation : exploitation, empowerment, and the politics of hard work; title: Wall Street historiographies and the shareholder value revolution; title: The neoclassical roots and origin narratives of shareholder value; title: Downsizers downsized : job insecurity and investment banking corporate culture; title: Liquid lives, compensation schemes, and the making of (unsustainable) financial markets; title: Leveraging dominance and crises through the global.