ABSTRACT
Most studies in social science that have analysed finance (its institutions, its agents, its practices and norms) in the 1990s-2000s, have stressed, on the one hand, its peculiarity and, on the other hand, its ability/power to shape the other spheres along its own norms. On the one hand, the literature in ethnology confirms the distinctive features of the everyday financial work: distinctive habitus (Ho, 2009) and exceptional compensations (Godechot, 2007); seemingly high technical capabilities based on innovations that have been previously made in the academic sphere (Mackenzie, 2006). Finance is definitively a specific work area. The division of labour, inside the financial world, shows how some positions allow skimming value when other positions allow only to surf (Ertürk et al. , 2007). This diversity is also analysed as a proliferation of new actors who contribute to the investment decision-making process (Froud, Leaver and Williams, 2007). To a certain extent, finance seems to be a socio-economic ‘laboratory’ where new forms of labour, of knowledge and resource sharing are experimented.
