OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis	112
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education	62
Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat	53
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States	50
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia	41
Book Review: Alan Middleton, The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms MiddletonAlanThe Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, E	39
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts	38
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue	37
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers	33
Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality	32
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–2019	31
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition	31
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) GreerIanUmneyCharle	28
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, £29.99	26
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace	21
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain	21
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany	19
Coercion and Consent under Techno-Economic Despotism: Workers’ Alienation and ‘Liberation’ in the Amazon Warehouse	18
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings	17
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	17
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model	16
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency	16
Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France	16
Thank You to Referees	16
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity	15

Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden	15
Book Review: Tom Vickers, Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis: Producing Workers and Immigrants	15
Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work	15
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK	14
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality	13
Book Review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano TreréAlgorithms of Resist	13
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working	13
Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes	13
Change and Resistance in the Royal Mail: Dispatches from the 2022/2023 Postal Workers’ Strike	13
Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation	12
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector	12
Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution HolborowMarnie Home	12
Book Review: Kate Kenny, Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory	12
Migrant Entrepreneurship Enablers: From Chance Encounters to Community Development	12
Book Review: Banu Özkazanç-Pan, Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans	12
Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry	12
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	11
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour	11
Book Review: Ergin Bulut, A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry	11
Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace	10
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace	10
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers	10
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	10
Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism	10
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba	9
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services	9
Developing a Standard Measure of Job Quality	9
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany	9
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective	9
From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada)	9
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots	9
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA	9
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space	8
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform inNeoliberal Chile Pérez-AhumadaPabloBuilding Power to	8
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work	8
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia	8
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment	8
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work	8
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability	8
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	8
Framing Unions and Nurses	7
The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France	7
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting	7
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions	7
Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security	7
Is Workplace Flexibility Penalised? The Gendered Consequences of Working from Home for the Wages of Parents and Childless Employees in the UK	6
Wage Differences between Polish and Romanian Intra-EU Migrants in a Flexi-Secure Labour Market: An Over-Time Perspective	6
Book Review: Stephen R Barley, Work and Technological Change	6
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	6

The Role of Boundary-Spanners in the Control of a Chinese Garment Factory in Myanmar	6
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 Countries	6
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector	6
Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow	6
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics’ Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity	6
Professionalization and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Comparative Study on German and US Job Requirements in CSR	6
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment	6
Bridging the Gaps in Work Quality Research: A Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Review	6
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
‘Lived Capitalisation’: How Speculative Finance Shapes the Social and Financial Lives of ‘Gig’ Workers in Bengaluru, India	6
Inter-Union Solidarity and Strategic Group Identity: Insights from Works Councils in the French Car Industry	5
‘I Find it Daunting . . . That I’m Gonna Have to Deal with This until 60’: Extended Working Lives and the Sustainable Employability of Operational Firefighters	5
Book Review: Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó and Vincenzo Maccarrone, Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisi	5
Union Equality Structures and the Challenge of Democratic Legitimacy: The Case of the Fire Brigades Union	5
Rethinking Mobilization Theory for Union Revitalization within the SSA Theory Framework	5
Book Review: Eva Fodor, The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary	5
Workplace Bullying and Intensification of Labour Controls in the Clothing Supply Chain: Post-Rana Plaza Disaster	5
Employment Discrimination against Indigenous People with Tribal Marks in Nigeria: The Painful Face of Stigma	5
Managerial Technique and Worker Subjectivity in Dialogue: Understanding Overwork in China’s Internet Industry	5
Crossers in a Segmented Labour Market: Occupational Advancement and Wage Changes from Semi-Skilled and Unskilled Jobs	5
Robotisation and Workforce Dynamics: Analysing Employment and Wage Effects within Manufacturing Establishments	5
Queer Bonds at Work: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Workplace Relations Among Sexual Minority Employees in Hong Kong	4
Thank You to Referees	4
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions	4
Computer Use and Digital Frustration in German Workplaces: Is There a Gendered Part-Time Gap?	4
A Bridge over Troubled Borders: Social Class and the Interplay between Work and Life	4
Embedded Strangers in One’s Own Job? Freelance Interpreters’ Invisible Work: A Practice Theory Approach	4
Women and the Standard Workweek: Developing a Typology of Work Schedules in the UK	4
Why Do So Many People Not Vote? Correlates of Participation in Trade Union Strike Ballots	4
Influences on Employment Transitions around the Birth of the First Child: The Experience of Italian Mothers	4
Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service	4
Book Review: Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts, A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia	4
Exploring Informal Work: Gaining Legitimation through Nudging	4
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation	4
Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement	4
Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets	4
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19	4
(Doing) Time Is Money: Confinement, Prison Work and the Reproduction of Carceral Capitalism	4
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies	4
Live Performers’ Experiences of Precarity and Recognition during COVID-19 and Beyond	4
From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work	4
Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media	4
Book Review: Paul David Harpur, Ableism at Work: Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment	4
Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan	3
Will I Have to Be Reborn? Collective Sensemaking of Stigma among White-Collar Inmates	3
Hiring Temps but Losing Perms? Temporary Worker Inflows and Voluntary Turnover of Permanent Employees	3
Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors’ Careers, 1970 to 2016	3
Participation in Job-Related Training: Is There a Parenthood Training Penalty?	3
Union Coalitions and Strategic Framing: The Case of the Agricultural Advisory Panel for Wales	3
Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings	3
The Dynamics of Control of Migrant Agency Workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the Enterprising-Self	3
Book Review: Peter Ackers, Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg AckersPeterTrade Unions and the British Indu	3
‘I am a Scaffolder’: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in ‘Dirty Work’	3
Thank You to Referees	3
Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan	3
Book Review: Saori Shibata, Contesting Precarity in Japan: The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus	3
Supersizing the Impact of Unions in Downsizing Processes: A Configurational Approach Based on 19 Cases in France	3
Theo Nichols: A Personal Tribute	3
Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services	3
Thursday Night and a Sing-along ‘Sung Alone’: The Experiences of a Self-employed Performer During the Pandemic	3
How Work Hour Variability Matters for Work-to-Family Conflict	3
Decline of the Centrality of Work? Critique of a Contemporary Ideology	3
Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations	2
The Scarring Effect of First Job Precarity: New Evidence from a Panel Study in Hong Kong	2
‘The Biggest Problem We Are Facing Is the Running Away Problem’: Recruitment and the Paradox of Facilitating the Mobility of Immobile Workers	2
The Discursive Power of Trade Union Leadership: Framing Identity Fields for Public Persuasion	2
‘Divergent Work Ageing’ and Older Migrants’ (Un)extended Working Lives	2
Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time	2
Young is Fun: Examining the Inter-Relations of Play and Age at Work	2
Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work	2
Book Review: Raven Bowen, Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle	2
Avoiding, Resisting and Enduring: A New Typology of Worker Responses to Workplace Violence	2
Book Review: William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams (eds), Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies	2
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms	2
Radical Change and Institutional Resilience: The Case of Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe	2
‘Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life’: Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs	2
Old Habits Die Hard? The Role of Trade Union Identity and Framing Processes in Shaping Strategy	2
The Employment Trajectories of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence	2
Disabled People Working in the Disability Sector: Occupational Segregation or Personal Fulfilment?	2