Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life
Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karel Musílek (0000-0002-8315-6283, Cardiff University, corresponding author), Kimberly Jamie (0000-0001-9151-0871, Durham University), Mark Learmonth (0000-0003-3436-9386, Nottingham Trent University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1285-1306 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09500170231185033 |
| OpenAlex | W4385344367 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 53 |
This article contributes to an understanding of work-intensive entrepreneurial lives as part of analysing the intensification of work in society. It offers an empirical extension of Foucauldian analyses, which attribute commitment to work to the influence of neoliberal enterprise discourse while often neglecting the material conditions of entrepreneurial work. The article draws on moderate constructionism and materialist discourse analysis to offer an account that pays attention to discourse and material realities. This ethnographic study shows how participants evoked norms of enterprise discourse to explain their commitment to work. However, they also understood these norms to be fundamentally shaped by their material conditions. The major contribution of the article is to show that the interpenetration of discursive norms with the investment logic of enterprise tends to displace boundaries between work and personal life and shift temporal arrangements of work from work-life 'balance' to prospects of free time in the imagined future
Aesthetics · Commodification · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Ethnography · Materialism · Materiality (auditing · Sociology · Work (physics · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Management and Organizational Studies
Abductive Analysis
Situational Analysis
The Time of Money
The Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment
Win-win imageries in a soap bubble world
Glimpses of resistance
Hegemonic discourses on entrepreneurship as an ideological mechanism for the reproduction of capital
Is Ethnography Jazz
Meaningful work? Nonprofit marketization and work/ life imbalance in popular autobiographies of social entrepreneurship
Doing Fieldwork
Reconstructing Sociology
Theories of Ideology
The Nature of Capital
The Reality of Social Construction
Consumption and Identity at Work
Michel Foucault’s ‘apology’ for neoliberalism
Conditions and relations of (re)production in Marxism and Discourse Studies
The Silicon Valley Ethos
The integration of paid work and the rest of life. Is post‐industrial work the new leisure
How biopower puts freedom to work
Discipline and Punish
Foucault and the Invisible Economy
Post-Fordist reconfigurations of gender, work and life
What is Wrong with Social Theory
Entrepreneurial affect
The Factory of Individuation
Governing the Soul - a Quarter of a Century On
The entrepreneur of the self beyond Foucault's neoliberal homo oeconomicus
Transgressive Desires
The Dynamics of Control of Migrant Agency Workers
Cold Winds and Warm Attachments
From Contract to Speculation
Bricolage as Survival, Growth and Transformation
Anticipatory Socialization and the Construction of the Employable Graduate
Financialization and value
Seeking a role
Welfare reform, precarity and the re-commodification of labour
The Artisan Economy and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Work and Identity in an Era of Precarious Employment
The Psychic Life of Neoliberalism
New Materialisms
Knows no weekend
Between Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman
Entrepreneurs of Themselves
Debating Labour Process Theory
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |