OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ILR Review is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Employer Discretion: The Role of Collective Agreements in the Liberalization of Industrial Relations	57
Book Review: Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management, by Matt Vidal	49
Lucy and the Chocolate Factory: Warehouse Robotics and Worker Safety	27
Negotiating about Algorithms: Social Partner Responses to AI in Denmark and Sweden	26
Book Review: Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries . By Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher	24
First to $15: Alberta’s Minimum Wage Policy on Employment by Wages, Ages, and Places	18
Book Review: Investing in Innovation: Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in the U.S. Corporation. By William Lazonick	17
Which Mexicans Are White? Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans	17
Book Reviews: Collective Skill Formation in the Knowledge Economy. Edited by Giuliano Bonoli and Patrick Emmenegger	17
Indices to Volume 78, 2025	15
Book Review: The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed . By Ofer Sharone The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Une	15
Book Review: Unworking: The Reinvention of the Modern Office, by Jeremy Myerson and Philip Ross	15
Book Review: The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals . By Lisa Herzog The Democratic Marketplace: How a More E	14
Employment and Consumption Responses to the Withdrawal of Unemployment Benefits	13
Book Review: Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City. By Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen	12
The Effect of an Emergency Savings Program on Employee Savings and Work Performance: A Two-Year Field Intervention	11
Book Review: Reputations at Stake. By William S. Harvey	11
Book Review: We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, by Phyllis Michael Wong	11
Group-Based Incentives and Individual Performance: A Study of the Effort Response	10
Evidence on the Relationship between Pension-Driven Financial Incentives and Late-Career Attrition: Implications for Pension Reform	9
Varieties of AI Regulations: The United States Perspective	9
Between Legitimacy and Cost: Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining Rights in Global Supply Chains	9
ILR Review at 75: Editorial Changes and the Launch of “Novel Technologies at Work”	8
Adversaries or Cross-Organization Co-workers? Exploring the Relationship between Gig Workers and Conventional Employees	8
Book Review: Fashioning Prosperous, Sustainable and Humane Societies: Beyond Precarity . By Charles J. Whalen Fashioning Prosperous, Sustainable and Huma	8

Book Review: Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance By Karen Levy	8
A Tale of Two Locals: The Strategic Choice of a Trade Union during the 2019 GM–UAW Strike and Member Satisfaction	8
Book Review: The UAW’s Southern Gamble: Organizing Workers at Foreign-Owned Vehicle Plants. By Stephen J. Silvia	7
Women in Power and Female Employment	7
Book Review: Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy By Ian Greer and Charles Umney	7
The Changing Skill Content of Private-Sector Union Coverage	7
Book Review: Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries By Virginia Doellgast	7
Middle-Class Transnational Migration and Its Margins in The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program	6
Introduction to a Special Issue on Labor in the Middle East and North Africa: Precarity, Inequality, and Migration	6
A Just Transition for Auto Workers? Negotiating the Electric Vehicle Transition in Germany and North America	6
Book Review: Social Policy in Capitalist History: Perspectives on Poverty, Work and Society . By Ayşe Buğra Social Policy in Capitalist History: Perspectives on Poverty,	6
An Empirical Analysis of Race and Political Partisanship Effects on Workplace Mobility Patterns During Lockdown, Reopening, and Endemic COVID-19	6
Opening the Black Box of Self-Employment: Identifying Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States	6
Book Review: Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States, by Jonathan Levy	5
Politicising Commodification: A Response to Ban, Béthoux, Rhodes, and Martínez Lucio	5
Book Review: Co-operation and Co-operatives in 21st-Century Europe . Edited by Julian Manley, Anthony Webster, and Olga Kuznetsova Co-operation and Co-operatives in 21st	5
The Impact of Manufacturing Credentials on Earnings and the Probability of Employment	5
Bonuses, Profit Sharing, and Job Satisfaction: The More, the Merrier?	4
Contract Employment: Measurement and Implications for Employer–Employee Relationships	4
Unlikely Organizers: The Rise of Tech Worker Labor Activism	4
What Are the Consequences of Right-to-Work for Union Membership?	4
Book Review: Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age . By Debbie J. Goldman Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the	4
Beyond the Ladder: The Effects of Limited Promotion Opportunities on Bureaucrats’ Career Decisions and Work Effort	4
Just Cause Protection Under Manager Discrimination	4
Book Review: The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines . By Matt Beane The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an	4
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work . Edited by Guy Davidov, Brian Langille, and Gillian Lester The Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work. E	4
Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native- and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock	4
Book Review: A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future . By J. Mijin Cha A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbo	4
Letter from the Editors	3
Book Review: Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs, by Leah F. Vosko	3
Book Review: The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work. By Mark Erlich	3
Effects of New Technologies on Work: The Case of Additive Manufacturing	3
Long-Run Career Outcomes of Multiple Job Holding	3
Book Review: Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age, by Ashok Kumar	3
Task Content and Job Losses in the Great Lockdown	3
The Centrality of Labor Power for Understanding Contemporary Capitalism	3
Schooling and Parental Labor Supply: Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures in the United States	3
How Much Does Material Determination Explain in Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans?	3
Book Review: Worn Out: How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back. By Madison Van Oort	2
Brokered Careers: The Role of Search Firms in Managerial Career Mobility	2
Union Bargaining Power and Institutional Investors: Evidence from 20 OECD Countries, 1980–2017	2
Book Review: The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City, by Eli Friedman	2
The Need for Speed: The Role of Employers in Immigrant Work Visa Regulatory Prioritization	2
Variations of Freelancers’ “Effort-Bargain” Experiences in Platform Work: The Role of Skills	2
Book Review: Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting Is Bad for Business and Employees. By Peter Cappelli	2
Conflicting Imperatives? Ethnonationalism and Neoliberalism in Industrial Relations	2
Where Are the Fathers? Effects of Earmarking Parental Leave for Fathers in France	2