emerald PUBLISHING The Contested Moralities of Markets: 63 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 63)

Product 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. Review To highlight the sources, processes, and outcomes of moral struggles in and around markets, sociologists present empirical studies on struggles around morally contested markets, coping with moral struggles in moral(ized) markets, and moral entrepreneurship and moral struggles in the market field. Among their topics are contested markets: morality, market devices, and vulnerable populations; relational work as a market device: an analysis of the contested "voluntary" carbon offset market; the moralization of labor: establishing the social responsibility of employers for disabled workers; protest rhetoric's appeal: how brands as moral entrepreneurs recruit the media into moral struggles; and contesting the digital economy: struggles over Uber in Poland. -- Copyright 2019 ― Portland, OR About the Author Simone Schiller-Merkens is a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Management and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. In her research, she draws on organization studies, social movement theory and economic sociology to study the formation and change of market categories and fields at the intersection of economic and non-economic spheres. Her research has appeared in journals such as the Scandinavian Journal of Management, Historical Social Research, and Schmalenbach Business Review. Philip Balsiger is an Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. His work analyzes the moral embeddedness of contemporary markets, including the struggles around the institutional and cultural order of markets, the emergence of moral categories in markets, and ethical consumption. He is the author of The Fight for Ethical Fashion (2016) and has published papers in journals such as European Journal of Sociology, Business & Society, and Journal of Consumer Culture.