Work Employment and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Work Employment and Society 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis104
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education55
Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat48
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia45
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors37
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue36
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers36
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts35
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States34
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain31
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition30
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany30
Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making29
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–201928
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) GreerIanUmneyCharle23
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, £29.99 22
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace20
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model18
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency18
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK17
Thank You to Referees17
Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France16
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden15
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker15
Book Review: Tom Vickers, Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis: Producing Workers and Immigrants15
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings14
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity13
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working13
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality13
Book Review: Banu Özkazanç-Pan, Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans12
Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes12
Book Review: Kate Kenny, Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory12
Book Review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano TreréAlgorithms of Resist12
Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation12
Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution11
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour11
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector11
Book Review: Ergin Bulut, A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry11
Migrant Entrepreneurship Enablers: From Chance Encounters to Community Development11
Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry11
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace10
Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism10
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict10
Employer Participation in Active Labour Market Policies in the United Kingdom and Denmark: The Effect of Employer Associations as Social Networks and the Mediating Role of Collective Voice10
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers10
Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace10
Labour Controls, Unfreedom and Perpetuation of Slavery on a Tea Plantation10
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba9
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services9
From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada)9
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany9
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment8
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA8
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform inNeoliberal Chile Pérez-AhumadaPabloBuilding Power to 8
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots8
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space8
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia8
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work8
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective8
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability8
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China8
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work8
The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France7
Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security7
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment7
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector7
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions7
To the Fifties and Back Again? A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Breadwinning Arrangements during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Four European Countries7
‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level7
Framing Unions and Nurses7
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic7
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting7
Wage Differences between Polish and Romanian Intra-EU Migrants in a Flexi-Secure Labour Market: An Over-Time Perspective7
Managerial Technique and Worker Subjectivity in Dialogue: Understanding Overwork in China’s Internet Industry6
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics’ Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity6
The Role of Boundary-Spanners in the Control of a Chinese Garment Factory in Myanmar6
Managing Health and Well-Being in SMEs through an Adviceline: A Typology of Managerial Behaviours6
‘I Find it Daunting . . . That I’m Gonna Have to Deal with This until 60’: Extended Working Lives and the Sustainable Employability of Operational Firefighters6
Bridging the Gaps in Work Quality Research: A Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Review6
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic6
Book Review: Stephen R Barley, Work and Technological Change6
Workplace Bullying and Intensification of Labour Controls in the Clothing Supply Chain: Post-Rana Plaza Disaster6
Professionalization and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Comparative Study on German and US Job Requirements in CSR6
Book Review: Denys Gorbach, The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City GorbachDenysThe Making and 6
Book Review: Eva Fodor, The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary6
Crossers in a Segmented Labour Market: Occupational Advancement and Wage Changes from Semi-Skilled and Unskilled Jobs5
Inter-Union Solidarity and Strategic Group Identity: Insights from Works Councils in the French Car Industry5
Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media5
Embedded Strangers in One’s Own Job? Freelance Interpreters’ Invisible Work: A Practice Theory Approach5
Union Equality Structures and the Challenge of Democratic Legitimacy: The Case of the Fire Brigades Union5
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-195
Rethinking Mobilization Theory for Union Revitalization within the SSA Theory Framework5
Why Do So Many People Not Vote? Correlates of Participation in Trade Union Strike Ballots5
Book Review: Paul David Harpur, Ableism at Work: Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment5
Employment Discrimination against Indigenous People with Tribal Marks in Nigeria: The Painful Face of Stigma5
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation5
Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement5
Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets5
Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service4
Influences on Employment Transitions around the Birth of the First Child: The Experience of Italian Mothers4
Book Review: Peter Ackers, Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg AckersPeterTrade Unions and the British Indu4
Participation in Job-Related Training: Is There a Parenthood Training Penalty?4
Union Coalitions and Strategic Framing: The Case of the Agricultural Advisory Panel for Wales4
It’s Not Just Sex: Relational Dynamics between Street-Based Sex Workers and Their Regular Customers4
Book Review: Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts, A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia4
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions4
(Doing) Time Is Money: Confinement, Prison Work and the Reproduction of Carceral Capitalism4
As the Two-Child Policy Beckons: Work–Family Conflicts, Gender Strategies and Self-Worth among Women from the First One-Child Generation in Contemporary China4
A Bridge over Troubled Borders: Social Class and the Interplay between Work and Life4
Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors’ Careers, 1970 to 20164
Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan4
Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan4
Supersizing the Impact of Unions in Downsizing Processes: A Configurational Approach Based on 19 Cases in France4
From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work4
Thank You to Referees4
Will I Have to Be Reborn? Collective Sensemaking of Stigma among White-Collar Inmates4
Live Performers’ Experiences of Precarity and Recognition during COVID-19 and Beyond4
Hiring Temps but Losing Perms? Temporary Worker Inflows and Voluntary Turnover of Permanent Employees4
Exploring Informal Work: Gaining Legitimation through Nudging4
The Dynamics of Control of Migrant Agency Workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the Enterprising-Self4
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies4
Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services3
‘I am a Scaffolder’: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in ‘Dirty Work’3
Thursday Night and a Sing-along ‘Sung Alone’: The Experiences of a Self-employed Performer During the Pandemic3
The Discursive Power of Trade Union Leadership: Framing Identity Fields for Public Persuasion3
The Employment Trajectories of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence3
‘The Biggest Problem We Are Facing Is the Running Away Problem’: Recruitment and the Paradox of Facilitating the Mobility of Immobile Workers3
How Work Hour Variability Matters for Work-to-Family Conflict3
Thank You to Referees3
Decline of the Centrality of Work? Critique of a Contemporary Ideology3
Avoiding, Resisting and Enduring: A New Typology of Worker Responses to Workplace Violence3
‘Divergent Work Ageing’ and Older Migrants’ (Un)extended Working Lives3
Book Review: Raven Bowen, Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle3
Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings3
Book Review: Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai, Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers3
Book Review: Saori Shibata, Contesting Precarity in Japan: The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus3
Old Habits Die Hard? The Role of Trade Union Identity and Framing Processes in Shaping Strategy3
Book Review: William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams (eds), Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies3
Book Review: Rebecca WB Lund and Ann Christin E Nilsen (eds), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region2
Book Review: David Etherington, Austerity, Welfare and Work: Exploring Politics, Geographies and Inequalities2
Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector2
‘Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life’: Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs2
Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work2
Disabled People Working in the Disability Sector: Occupational Segregation or Personal Fulfilment?2
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs2
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil2
Book Review: Rachael A Woldoff and Robert C Litchfield, Digital Nomads: In Search of Meaningful Work in the New Economy2
Betwixt and Between: The Invisible Experiences of Volunteers’ Body Work2
Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time2
Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations2
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines2
Organising Against Precarity: The Life of a South African Labour Broker Worker2
Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality2
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency2
Experiencing Deportation as Dirty Work? The Case of Dutch Escort Officers2
Radical Change and Institutional Resilience: The Case of Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe2
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms2
The Scarring Effect of First Job Precarity: New Evidence from a Panel Study in Hong Kong2
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