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Built to last: ageing, class and the masculine body in a UK hedge fund

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  • Kathleen Riach

    (Monash University, Australia)

  • Leanne Cutcher

    (University of Sydney, Australia)

Abstract

This article explores the ways in which male traders negotiate ageing in the highly competitive world of finance. It draws on a study of a UK hedge fund to show how ageing processes intersect with masculinity and class-based bodily practices to reproduce market-based ideals of the sector. Through developing the concept of body accumulation, this article provides a new framework for exploring ageing in an organizational context by demonstrating how masculinity, class and organizational values are mapped onto the traders’ bodies over time and in ways that require individuals to continually negotiate their professional value. This not only significantly advances current understanding of how one group of professionals navigate growing older at work, but also highlights the importance of understanding ageing as an accumulation process that takes into account temporal, spatial and cultural dimensions.

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  • Kathleen Riach & Leanne Cutcher, 2014. "Built to last: ageing, class and the masculine body in a UK hedge fund," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 28(5), pages 771-787, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:28:y:2014:i:5:p:771-787
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    1. Francesco Della Puppa, 2019. "Bodies at Work, Work on Bodies: Migrant Bodies, Wage Labour, and Family Reunification in Italy," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 20(4), pages 963-981, November.
    2. Helena Liu, 2017. "The Masculinisation of Ethical Leadership Dis/embodiment," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 144(2), pages 263-278, August.

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