Work Employment and Society

Article	Citations
‘My Life Is More Valuable Than This’: Understanding Risk among On-Demand Food Couriers in Edinburgh	80
At Least I’m My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work	35
Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam	30
Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention	27
The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service	25
The Worker Capabilities Approach: Insights from Worker Mobilizations in Italian Logistics and Food Delivery	25
Digi-Housekeeping: The Invisible Work of Flexibility	24
Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom	23
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	23
Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics	22
With a Little Help from My Friends: Social-Network Job Search and Overqualification among Recent Intra-EU Migrants Moving from East to West	22
‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives	21
Data Scientists’ Identity Work: Omnivorous Symbolic Boundaries in Skills Acquisition	20
Precarity as a Biographical Problem? Young Workers Living with Precarity in Germany and Poland	20
Career Advancement for Women in the British Hospitality Industry: The Enabling Factors	19
Economic Inactivity, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and Scarring: The Importance of NEET as a Marker of Long-Term Disadvantage	18
Upskilling, Deskilling or Polarisation? Evidence on Change in Skills in Europe	18
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	17
‘Good’ Bad Jobs? The Evolution of Migrant Low-Wage Employment in Germany (1985–2015)	17
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs	17
Women Professors across STEMM and Non-STEMM Disciplines: Navigating Gendered Spaces and Playing the Academic Game	17
Disability and Academic Careers: Using the Social Relational Model to Reveal the Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Creating Disability	16
Do Equal Qualifications Yield Equal Rewards for Immigrants in the Labour Market?	16
‘It’s Like a War Zone’: Jay’s Liminal Experience of Normal and Extreme Work in a UK Supermarket during the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’	16

The Relative Quality of Sex Work	15
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work	15
The Making of Cheap Labour across Production and Reproduction: Control and Resistance in the Senegalese Horticultural Value Chain	15
‘You Just Had to Get on with It’: Exploring the Persistence of Gender Inequality through Women’s Career Histories	15
Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms	14
‘Working to Live, Not Living to Work’: Low-Paid Multiple Employment and Work–Life Articulation	14
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia	14
When Can a Disability Quota System Empower Disabled Individuals in the Workplace? The Case of France	14
A Capability Approach to Understand the Scarring Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity: Developing the Research Agenda	14
Profit over People? Evaluating Morality on the Front Line during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Front-Line Service Manager’s Confession and Regrets	13
Masters of None? How Cultural Workers Use Reframing to Achieve Legitimacy in Portfolio Careers	13
Occupations and the Non-Standard Employment Career: How the Occupational Skill Level and Task Types Influence the Career Outcomes of Non-Standard Employment	12
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work	12
Gender Wage Gap and the Involvement of Partners in Household Work	12
Doing and Negotiating Transgender on the Front Line: Customer Abuse, Transphobia and Stigma in the Food Retail Sector	12
Reproducing Global Inequalities in the Online Labour Market: Valuing Capital in the Design Field	12
Youth, Work and ‘Career’ as a Way of Talking about the Self	11
Job Satisfaction and Sexual Orientation in Britain	11
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines	11
Vice-Chancellor Pay and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Vice-Chancellor Characteristics	11
Sticks and Stones: The Naming of Global Talent	11
Relationship-Based Care Work, Austerity and Aged Care	11
Conceptualising ‘Meta-Work’ in the Context of Continuous, Global Mobility: The Case of Digital Nomadism	11
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency	11
Configurations of Boundary Management Practices among Knowledge Workers	10
‘They’ve Been with Me the Whole Journey’: Temporality, Emotional Labour and Hairdressing Work	10
Negotiating Gendered Ageing: Intersectional Reflexivity and Experiences of Incongruity of Self-Employed Older Women	10
Rethinking Situated Learning: Participation and Communities of Practice in the UK Fire and Rescue Service	10
When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry	10
Consuming Worker Exploitation? Accounts and Justifications for Consumer (In)action to Modern Slavery	10
Gender Role Attitudes and Labour Market Behaviours: Do Attitudes Contribute to Gender Differences in Employment in Germany?	9
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	9
Stressed, Depressed and Exhausted: Six Years as a Teacher in UK State Education	9
Trade Union Power Resources within the Supply Chain: Marketisation, Marginalisation, Mobilisation	9
A Heterodox Re-Reading of Creative Work: The Diverse Economies of Danish Visual Artists	9
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study	9
The Partner Pay Gap: Associations between Spouses’ Relative Earnings and Life Satisfaction among Couples in the UK	9
Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan	9
Killing Them ‘Softly’ (!): Exploring Work Experiences in Care-Based Animal Dirty Work	9
The ‘Grey Zone’ at the Interface of Work and Home: Theorizing Adaptations Required by Precarious Work	8
Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations	8
Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services	8
Trapped in Precariousness? Risks and Opportunities of Female Immigrants and Natives Transitioning from Part-Time Jobs in Spain	8
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	8
McStrike! Framing, (Political) Opportunity and the Development of a Collective Identity: McDonald’s and the UK Fast-Food Rights Campaign	8
Moral Dilemma of Striking: A Medical Worker’s Response to Job Duty, Public Health Protection and the Politicization of Strikes	8
Fathers’ Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements: Evidence from the UK	8
Why Do Humans Remain Central to the Knowledge Work in the Age of Robots? Marx’sFragment on Machinesand Beyond	8
Emotional Labour and the Autonomy of Dependent Self-Employed Workers: The Limitations of Digital Managerial Control in the Home Credit Sector	8
Working from Home in Urban China during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assemblages of Work-Family Interference	8

Possible Selves in a Transforming Economy: Upwardly Mobile Working-Class Masculinities, Service Work and Negotiated Aspirations in Australia	8
Working Hard for the Ones You Love and Care for Under Covid-19 Physical Distancing	7
‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level	7
The Impact of Unemployment and Non-Standard Forms of Employment on the Housing Autonomy of Young Adults	7
Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China	7
Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography	7
Bringing Women on Board? Family Policies, Quotas and Gender Diversity in Top Jobs	7
Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain	7
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment	7
The Employment Trajectories of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence	7
Precarious Education-to-Work Transitions: Entering Welfare Professions under a Workfarist Regime	7
Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control	7
Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State	7
Public Service, Private Delivery: Service Workers and the Negotiation of Blurred Boundaries in a Neoliberal State	6
Migrants at Work: Perspectives, Perceptions and New Connections	6
Trouble in Direct Payment Personal Assistance Relationships	6
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	6
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms	6
Refugee Subentrepreneurship: The Emergence of a Liquid Cage	6
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies	6
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19	6
No Voice, No Choice: Assessing Danish Active Labour Market Policies Using Sen’s Capability Approach	6
Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–2015	6
University or Degree Apprenticeship? Stratification and Uncertainty in Routes to the Solicitors’ Profession	6
Managing Health and Well-Being in SMEs through an Adviceline: A Typology of Managerial Behaviours	5
Resisting Patriarchal Cultures: The Case of Female Spanish Home-Based Teleworkers	5
Gender Equalities: What Lies Ahead	5
As the Two-Child Policy Beckons: Work–Family Conflicts, Gender Strategies and Self-Worth among Women from the First One-Child Generation in Contemporary China	5
On the Biopsychosocial Costs of Alienated Labor	5
Estimating the Wage Premium to Supervision for Middle Managers in Different Contexts: Evidence from Germany and the UK	5
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany	5
‘You Can’t Eat Soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South	5
Labour Controls, Unfreedom and Perpetuation of Slavery on a Tea Plantation	5
‘It’s My Passion and Not Really Like Work’: Balancing Precarity with the Work–Life of a Volunteer Team Leader in the Conservation Sector	5
Thursday Night and a Sing-along ‘Sung Alone’: The Experiences of a Self-employed Performer During the Pandemic	5
‘Working While Feeling Awful Is Normal’: One Roma’s Experience of Presenteeism	5
Migrant Entrepreneurship Enablers: From Chance Encounters to Community Development	4
The Evolution of Professionalism as a Mode of Regulation: Evidence from the United States	4
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency	4
How Occupational Pensions Shape Extended Working Lives: Gender, Class and Chance after the Norwegian Pension Reform	4
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil	4
Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: Evidence for European Employees	4
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba	4
‘The Biggest Problem We Are Facing Is the Running Away Problem’: Recruitment and the Paradox of Facilitating the Mobility of Immobile Workers	4
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector	4
The ‘Gender Face’ of Job Insecurity in France: An Individual- and Organizational-Level Analysis	4
Reflexive Self-Identity and Work: Working Women, Biographical Disruption and Agency	4
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Challenge of External Work Arrangements for Industrial Manufacturing Unions in Germany and Italy	4
Nonstandard Employment and Job Satisfaction across Time in China: Evidence from the Chinese General Social Survey (2006–2012)	4
‘I Get Money for What I Like Doing Best’: The Class Origin of Young Blue-Collar Workers and their Commitment to Work	4
Staying Down with the Joneses: Differences in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment across Neighbourhoods	4
Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany	4
Conceptualizing Responsible Return to Work: Corporate Social Responsibility in Relation to Employee Return to Work after Cancer	4
Workplace Bullying and Intensification of Labour Controls in the Clothing Supply Chain: Post-Rana Plaza Disaster	4
Women Managers’ Impact on Use of Family-friendly Measures among Their Subordinates in Japanese Firms	4
Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia	4
Conceptualising ‘Within-Group Stigmatisation’ among High-Status Workers	4
From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work	4
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space	4
Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time	4
Gender Differences in the Social Consequences of Unemployment: How Job Loss Affects the Risk of Becoming Socially Isolated	4
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 Voice	4
Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations	3
Self-Employed Women in Europe: Lack of Opportunity or Forced by Necessity?	3
‘This Is the End’? An Ethnographic Study of Management Control and a New Management Initiative	3
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden	3
The Influence of Household Pension Wealth, Partner’s Health and Spousal Employment Status on Heterogeneous Early Retirement Transitions among Women in England	3
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition	3
Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making	3
Temporary Contracts, Employment Trajectories and Dualisation: A Comparison of Norway and Sweden	3
Manufacturing Managerial Compliance: How Firms Align Managers with Corporate Interest	3
‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless	3
Wage Differences between Polish and Romanian Intra-EU Migrants in a Flexi-Secure Labour Market: An Over-Time Perspective	3
Labour Market Segmentation within Ethnic Economies: The Ethnic Penalty for Invisible Kurdish Migrants in the United Kingdom	3
Training Regimes and Diversity: Experiences of Young Foreign Employees in Japanese Headquarters	3
Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan	3
‘Basically He’s a Pet, Not a Working Dog’: Theorising What Therapy Dogs Do in the Workplace	3
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective	3
Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media	3
‘We Don’t Have the Same Opportunities as Others’: Shining Bourdieu’s Lens on UK Roma Migrants’ Precarious (Workers’) Habitus	3

Navigating the Perilous Waters of Partisan Scholarship: Participatory Action Research (PAR) with the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF)	3
Reproductive Work in the Global South: Lived Experiences and Social Relations of Commercial Surrogacy in India	3
Developing or Degrading Young Workers? How Business Strategy and the Labour Process Shape Job Quality across Different Industrial Sectors in England	3
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity	3
Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers’ Temporary Work	3
Superfluous Jobs in Extractive Industries: The Usefulness/Uselessness of Job Creation after Dispossession	3
‘This Happens All the Time’: Organizations, Rationalization and Ethical Dilemmas in Engineering	3
Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings	2
Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour	2
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK	2
Father Parental Leave Use in Spain: The Role of the Female Partner Labour Situation	2
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Work, Employment and Society: Extending the Debate on Organisational Involvement in/Responsibilities around Fertility and Reproduction	2
The Association between Family Care and Paid Work among Women in Germany: Does the Household Economic Context Matter?	2
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers	2
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions	2
Gender Composition and the Symbolic Value of Occupations: New Evidence of a U-shaped Relationship between Gender and Occupational Prestige Based on German Microdata	2
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace	2
Divide and Conquer: Social Assistance Clients’ Competing Frames of Social Justice	2
Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success	2
Otherness in the Workplace among Highly Skilled Labour Migrants: Swedes in Germany and the UK	2
Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security	2
Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry	2
It’s Not Just Sex: Relational Dynamics between Street-Based Sex Workers and Their Regular Customers	2
The Scarring Effect of First Job Precarity: New Evidence from a Panel Study in Hong Kong	2
Gender Attitudes and Occupational Aspirations in Germany: Are Young Men Prepared for the Jobs of the Future?	2
Women’s Attrition from Male-Dominated Workplaces in Norway: The Importance of Numerical Minority Status, Motherhood and Class	2
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain	2
Managerial Technique and Worker Subjectivity in Dialogue: Understanding Overwork in China’s Internet Industry	2
Families under Pressure: The Costs of Vocational Calling, and What Can Be Done about Them	2
Catch-22: Token Women Trying to Reconcile Impossible Contradictions between Organisational and Societal Expectations	2
Why Queer Workers Make Good Organisers	2
A Bridge over Troubled Borders: Social Class and the Interplay between Work and Life	2
Disabled People Working in the Disability Sector: Occupational Segregation or Personal Fulfilment?	2
Predicting Child-Labour Risks by Norms in India	2
Consent and Contestation: How Platform Workers Reckon with the Risks of Gig Labor	2
Between Settlement and Mobilization: Political Logics of Intra-Organizational Union Communication on Social Media	2
Gender in the Flesh: Allostatic Load as the Embodiment of Stressful, Gendered Work in Canadian Police Communicators	2
Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work	2
Who Did You Meet at the Venice Biennale? Education-to-Work Transition Enhancers for Aspiring Arts Professionals in Australia	2
Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector	2