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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Trans People in the Workplace: Possibilities for Subverting Heteronormativity88
Why Do So Many People Not Vote? Correlates of Participation in Trade Union Strike Ballots45
Book Review: Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and Sin Yi Cheung The Death of Human Capital? Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption39
Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat38
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation36
The Socio-Materiality of Dirty Work: A Critical Realist Perspective34
Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets33
Book Review: Paul David Harpur, Ableism at Work: Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment33
Staying Down with the Joneses: Differences in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment across Neighbourhoods32
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis29
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education28
Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement28
Conceptualising Work as a ‘Safe Space’ for Negotiating LGBT Identities: Navigating Careers in the Construction Sector26
From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada)25
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services24
‘You Can’t Eat Soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South21
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue19
Organized Crime and Employment Relations: A Personal Story of ‘Ndrangheta Control on Employment Relations Management Practices in Southern Italy17
‘Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life’: Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs16
Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media16
Book Review: Calla Hummel, Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State15
Temporary Contracts, Employment Trajectories and Dualisation: A Comparison of Norway and Sweden15
‘Difficult to Divulge’: The Impact of Organisational Silence around the Menopause15
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors15
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-1914
Retirement in Western Germany – How Workplace Tasks Influence Its Timing14
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs14
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace13
Radical Change and Institutional Resilience: The Case of Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe13
Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time13
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots12
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers12
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba11
Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success11
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany11
Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour11
Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany11
Boards for Diversity? A Critical Economic Sociology of British South Asian Senior Leaders’ Experiences of the Executive Level of Football10
Who Gains From Organizational Flexibility? Flexible Organizational Practices and Wage Inequality10
Embedded Strangers in One’s Own Job? Freelance Interpreters’ Invisible Work: A Practice Theory Approach10
Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work10
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts10
Book Review: Stephen Edgell and Edward Granter, The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work (Third Edition)10
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia10
Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State9
Trade Union Solidarity in Crisis: The Generative Tensions of Worker Solidarities in Argentina9
Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector9
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines9
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States9
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies9
Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China9
Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time9
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency8
Influences on Employment Transitions around the Birth of the First Child: The Experience of Italian Mothers8
Book Review: David Etherington, Austerity, Welfare and Work: Exploring Politics, Geographies and Inequalities8
From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work8
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil8
Betwixt and Between: The Invisible Experiences of Volunteers’ Body Work8
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace8
Ride-Hail Drivers, Taxi Drivers and Multiple Jobholders: Who Takes the Most Risks and Why?8
Superfluous Jobs in Extractive Industries: The Usefulness/Uselessness of Job Creation after Dispossession8
Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making8
Book Review: Matt Vidal, Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management7
As the Two-Child Policy Beckons: Work–Family Conflicts, Gender Strategies and Self-Worth among Women from the First One-Child Generation in Contemporary China7
The Impact of Remote Work on Managerial Compliance: Changes in the Control Regime over Line Managers7
Book Review: Paul Stewart, Jean-Pierre Durand and Maria-Magdalena Richea (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of the Sociology of Work in Europe7
‘Working While Feeling Awful Is Normal’: One Roma’s Experience of Presenteeism7
Book Review: Rachael A Woldoff and Robert C Litchfield, Digital Nomads: In Search of Meaningful Work in the New Economy7
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability7
Experiencing Deportation as Dirty Work? The Case of Dutch Escort Officers7
Organising Against Precarity: The Life of a South African Labour Broker Worker7
‘Dances with Daffodils’: Life as a Flower-picker in Southwest England6
Why Female Employees Do Not Earn More under a Female Manager: A Mixed-Method Study6
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany6
Wage Effects of Couples’ Divisions of Labour across the UK Wage Distribution6
‘Basically He’s a Pet, Not a Working Dog’: Theorising What Therapy Dogs Do in the Workplace6
Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service6
Between Settlement and Mobilization: Political Logics of Intra-Organizational Union Communication on Social Media6
Thank You to Referees6
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile6
Extreme Lockdowns and the Gendered Informalization of Employment: Evidence from the Philippines6
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition6
Unpromising Futures: Early-Career GPs’ Narrative Accounts of Meaningful Work during a Professional Workforce Crisis6
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions6
(Doing) Time Is Money: Confinement, Prison Work and the Reproduction of Carceral Capitalism6
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work6
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain5
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–20195
Book Review: Rebecca WB Lund and Ann Christin E Nilsen (eds), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region5
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, £29.99 5
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) GreerIanUmneyCharle5
Informal Cultures of Resistance and Worker Mobilization: The Case of Migrant Workers in the Italian Logistics Sector5
Trouble in Direct Payment Personal Assistance Relationships5
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia5
Temporary Migrants as Dehumanised ‘Other’ in the Time of COVID-19: We’re All in This Together?5
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA5
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment5
Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality5
Goldin’s Last Chapter on the Gender Pay Gap: An Exploratory Analysis Using Italian Data4
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker4
Otherness in the Workplace among Highly Skilled Labour Migrants: Swedes in Germany and the UK4
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment4
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work4
Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms4
Bounded Well-Being: Designing Technologies for Workers’ Well-Being in Corporate Programmes4
Gender Equalities: What Lies Ahead4
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions4
Cracking IT: Negotiating Working-Class Gender Capital through Group Enterprises in India4
Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers’ Temporary Work4
Will I Have to Be Reborn? Collective Sensemaking of Stigma among White-Collar Inmates4
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China4
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space4
Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work4
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model4
How Do Young Workers Perceive Job Insecurity? Legitimising Frames for Precarious Work in England and Germany4
Book Review: Tom Vickers, Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis: Producing Workers and Immigrants4
‘It’s One Rule for Them and One for Us’: Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour4
Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan4
Killing Them ‘Softly’ (!): Exploring Work Experiences in Care-Based Animal Dirty Work4
Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics4
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective4
Negotiating Gendered Ageing: Intersectional Reflexivity and Experiences of Incongruity of Self-Employed Older Women4
Marketisation and the Public Good: A Typology of Responses among Museum Professionals4
Framing Unions and Nurses3
The Association between Family Care and Paid Work among Women in Germany: Does the Household Economic Context Matter?3
Towards ‘Racialising’ the Union Agenda on the Front Lines of Healthcare Professions3
Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control3
Reconceptualising Work and Employment in Complex Productive Configurations3
‘You’d Die if You Didn’t Have Fun’: Interpreting the Experiences of Long-Term Unemployed Men as Bakhtinian Death–Rebirth3
Live Performers’ Experiences of Precarity and Recognition during COVID-19 and Beyond3
Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France3
Producing ‘The Right Candidate’: The Social Embeddedness of Labour Market Intermediaries for Migrant Workers in the Belgian Construction Sector3
Exploring Informal Work: Gaining Legitimation through Nudging3
Between Frustration and Invigoration: Women Talking about Digital Technology at Work3
A Bridge over Troubled Borders: Social Class and the Interplay between Work and Life3
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK3
Book Review: Mike Saks (ed.), Support Workers and the Health Professions in International Perspective: The Invisible Providers of Health Care3
Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain3
It’s Not Just Sex: Relational Dynamics between Street-Based Sex Workers and Their Regular Customers3
Conceptualising ‘Within-Group Stigmatisation’ among High-Status Workers3
The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France3
‘A Good Death’: One Hospice Chaplain’s Approach to End-of-Life Care3
Supersizing the Impact of Unions in Downsizing Processes: A Configurational Approach Based on 19 Cases in France3
Book Review: Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts, A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia3
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency2
Thank You to Referees2
Predicting Child-Labour Risks by Norms in India2
Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan2
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings2
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden2
‘Our Backs Are Against the Wall’: The Story of a Bangladeshi Woman Garment Worker in the COVID-19 ‘New Normal’2
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting2
Thank You to Referees 2023-242
Does College Prestige Matter? Asian CEOs and High-Skilled Immigrant Hiring in the US2
Gender Attitudes and Occupational Aspirations in Germany: Are Young Men Prepared for the Jobs of the Future?2
Book Reviews: Virginia Doellgast, Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries2
Adaptation Trajectories of Dismissed Workers: A Critical Case Study of the Lithuanian Radio-Electronics Sector2
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity2
Technological Change, Tasks and Class Inequality in Europe2
Book Review: Preet S Aulakh and Philip F Kelly (eds), Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia2
Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security2
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