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On a day-to-day basis, many people toil away at work without reflecting on how their jobs might actually be influencing them and, in particular, how they think and act toward money. Kevin Delaney’s Money at Work argues just that, claiming that our occupations shape our cognitions and actions regarding money. To articulate this claim, Delaney undertakes a qualitative, interview-and observation-based inquiry into an array of nine occupations, selected for their shared central concern with how to appropriately view and treat money. In so doing, he draws unexpected, insightful comparisons between settings, showing how seemingly dissimilar occupations can have surprisingly similar structural features and “money cultures.” As Delaney explains in Chapter 1, a money culture is a set of “values and beliefs about money that are revealed through symbols, cognitions, belief systems, and storytelling”(p. 13). He argues …