TY - BOOK AU - Ho,Karen TI - Liquidated : an ethnography of wall street SN - 9780822345992 U1 - 331.76133264273 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Securities industry KW - United States KW - Employees KW - Stockbrokers KW - Investment banking KW - Downsizing of organizations N1 - "A John Hope Franklin Center Book."; Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-368) and index; Anthropology goes to Wall Street -- Biographies of hegemony : the culture of smartness and the recruitment and construction of investment bankers -- Wall Street's orientation : exploitation, empowerment, and the politics of hard work -- Wall Street historiographies and the shareholder value revolution -- The neoclassical roots and origin narratives of shareholder value -- Downsizers downsized : job insecurity and investment banking corporate culture -- Liquid lives, compensation schemes, and the making of (unsustainable) financial markets -- Leveraging dominance and crises through the global ER -