Contested Moralities of Markets

Simone Schiller-Merkens is a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty ofManagement and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. Inher research, she draws on organization studies, social movement theory and economicsociology to study the formation and change of market categories and fields atthe intersection of economic and non-economic spheres. Her research hasappeared in journals such as the Scandinavian Journal of Management, HistoricalSocial Research, and Schmalenbach Business Review.Philip Balsigeris an Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel,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 isthe 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.

• 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 ValiergueChapter 4. "This Market Changed My Life": Aspirations and Morality in Markets for Counterfeits; Matías DeweyCoping 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

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.