Drawing on 32 months of interview-based ethnographic fieldwork, this paper examines Finland’s “mankala” nuclear energy companies through the lens of anthropological theories of corporate form. Mankalas are limited liability companies run like zero-profit cooperatives that bring together...

This article presents an ethnographic account of one way humor has been enacted to foster a sense of ‘comedic camaraderie’ among young professionals in Finland’s nuclear energy sector. To this end, it details some of the lively, satirical, sometimes-edgy social games played at Suomen...

One feature of recent pension reforms in OECD countries has been that more individual responsibility is transferred to employees and in particular to those approaching the end of their working life. Enlarged freedom of choice concerns the timing of retirement with corresponding consequences for...