Work Employment and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Work Employment and Society is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education169
Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality71
Book Review: Alan Middleton, The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms MiddletonAlanThe Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, E66
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers60
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia59
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States53
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts47
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis38
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue32
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace30
Book Review: Valeria Pulignano and Markieta Domecka The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the Study of Unpaid Labour Can Help Address Inequality in Precarious Work 29
Coercion and Consent under Techno-Economic Despotism: Workers’ Alienation and ‘Liberation’ in the Amazon Warehouse28
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) GreerIanUmneyCharle27
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, £29.99 25
Ambivalent Inclusion: Older Workers, Diversity Agendas and the Persistence of the Ideal Worker23
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–201923
Lay Moralities of Young Workers and the Moral Economy of Service Labour22
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain22
Disaggregating Gender Income Disparities in STEM: Cohort and Family Factors in a Nordic Welfare State22
Thank You to Referees20
Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France18
Organising Beyond the Employment Relationship: Scaling Up and Institutional Power in Own-Account Unions18
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK18
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity17
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model17
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings17
Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work16
Change and Resistance in the Royal Mail: Dispatches from the 2022/2023 Postal Workers’ Strike16
Book Review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano TreréAlgorithms of Resist16
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality16
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working14
Gaming Hope: Professional Women’s Football as Precarious Work14
‘Get on Board or Get Off’: Nosediving Job Quality for Mental Health Providers in the Age of Platform Work14
Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution HolborowMarnie Home13
Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation13
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector13
Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace12
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour12
Contesting Labour Violations in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields12
Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes12
Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism11
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict11
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers11
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace10
Developing a Standard Measure of Job Quality10
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services10
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots9
Who You Know or What You Know? Job Search and Matching in the Presence of Network-Based Recruitment9
Organizational Intersectionality: Do Gender and Migration Status Inequalities Reinforce or Offset Each Other in French Workplaces?9
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany9
From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada)9
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba9
The Intensification–Extensification Dynamic: Hybrid Work and Digital Connectivity9
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space9
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work8
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA8
Joint Book Review AkyelkenNihanWomen, Work and Mobilities: The Case of Urban and Regional Contexts in TurkeyAbingdon: Routledge, 2024, £39.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9781032562988), 148 pp.BertoliniSoniaGoglioVal8
Fathers Combining Work and Care: Flexible Work Arrangements and Paternal Involvement Across Financial Situations8
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 Countries8
Special NEETs: Institutional Influences on School-to-Work Transitions of Young People with Disabilities in Europe8
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform inNeoliberal Chile Pérez-AhumadaPabloBuilding Power to 8
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability8
Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow8
Glocalising Union Organising: How Access to Power Resources Enables and Constrains Global Union Federation Campaigns in the Global South7
‘Lived Capitalisation’: How Speculative Finance Shapes the Social and Financial Lives of ‘Gig’ Workers in Bengaluru, India7
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions7
Framing Unions and Nurses7
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment7
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 7
The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France7
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic7
What Does it Mean to be Passionate about Your Job? Three Meanings of ‘Collectively Oriented Passion’ in UK Pubs7
Bridging the Gaps in Work Quality Research: A Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Review7
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting7
Is Workplace Flexibility Penalised? The Gendered Consequences of Working from Home for the Wages of Parents and Childless Employees in the UK6
Managerial Technique and Worker Subjectivity in Dialogue: Understanding Overwork in China’s Internet Industry6
The Role of Boundary-Spanners in the Control of a Chinese Garment Factory in Myanmar6
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector6
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 Jobs6
Robotisation and Workforce Dynamics: Analysing Employment and Wage Effects within Manufacturing Establishments6
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics’ Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity6
Book Review: Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó and Vincenzo Maccarrone, Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisi6
The Labour Process under Worker Control: Organisational Tensions in Worker Cooperatives6
The Struggle for Meaning in Contemporary Care Work5
Climate Change Vulnerability and the Politics of Production on Swiss Construction Sites5
Queer Bonds at Work: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Workplace Relations Among Sexual Minority Employees in Hong Kong5
Employment Discrimination against Indigenous People with Tribal Marks in Nigeria: The Painful Face of Stigma5
Women and the Standard Workweek: Developing a Typology of Work Schedules in the UK5
Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement5
Inter-Union Solidarity and Strategic Group Identity: Insights from Works Councils in the French Car Industry5
Why Do So Many People Not Vote? Correlates of Participation in Trade Union Strike Ballots5
Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service4
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies4
Theo Nichols: A Personal Tribute4
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation4
Computer Use and Digital Frustration in German Workplaces: Is There a Gendered Part-Time Gap?4
Constructing a Skilled Yet Flexible Migrant Workforce: State-driven Skilled Migration of IT Workers from South Korea to Japan4
Influences on Employment Transitions around the Birth of the First Child: The Experience of Italian Mothers4
Exploring Informal Work: Gaining Legitimation through Nudging4
Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets4
(Doing) Time Is Money: Confinement, Prison Work and the Reproduction of Carceral Capitalism4
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions4
Book Review: Peter Ackers, Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg AckersPeterTrade Unions and the British Indu4
The Role of Settlement Intentions (Un-)Certainty in the Labour Market Integration of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany4
Reimagining the Egalitarian Society: A Community-wide Approach to Transcending the Gender Division of Paid and Unpaid Labour4
‘I am a Scaffolder’: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in ‘Dirty Work’3
Live Performers’ Experiences of Precarity and Recognition during COVID-19 and Beyond3
Supersizing the Impact of Unions in Downsizing Processes: A Configurational Approach Based on 19 Cases in France3
Managing Stigma and Perpetuating Ableism: How Frontline Workers Navigate Disclosure When Encouraging Employers to Hire Disabled People3
Participation in Job-Related Training: Is There a Parenthood Training Penalty?3
Book Review: Raven Bowen, Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle3
The Dynamics of Control of Migrant Agency Workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the Enterprising-Self3
Thank You to Referees3
Autonomy’s Mirage: How Fauxtonomy Fuels Workers’ Frustration in the Gig Economy3
Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors’ Careers, 1970 to 20163
Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan3
Decline of the Centrality of Work? Critique of a Contemporary Ideology3
Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan3
Will I Have to Be Reborn? Collective Sensemaking of Stigma among White-Collar Inmates3
Hiring Temps but Losing Perms? Temporary Worker Inflows and Voluntary Turnover of Permanent Employees3
Holiworking: Perspectives on New Ways of Integrating Holiday and Work3
Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings3
How Work Hour Variability Matters for Work-to-Family Conflict3
Book Review: Peter Cappelli, Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting is Bad for Business and Employees CappelliPete2
Book Review: Francesca Coin, The Great Resignation: The New Refusal of Work CoinFrancescaThe Great Resignation: The New Refusal of WorkLondon: Bloomsbury2
Agency through Informality: How Bangladeshi Restaurant Owners Navigate Structural Constraints in Times of Crisis2
Avoiding, Resisting and Enduring: A New Typology of Worker Responses to Workplace Violence2
Book Review: William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams (eds), Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies2
‘The Biggest Problem We Are Facing Is the Running Away Problem’: Recruitment and the Paradox of Facilitating the Mobility of Immobile Workers2
Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time2
‘Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life’: Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs2
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines2
Why Female Employees Do Not Earn More under a Female Manager: A Mixed-Method Study2
The Scarring Effect of First Job Precarity: New Evidence from a Panel Study in Hong Kong2
Old Habits Die Hard? The Role of Trade Union Identity and Framing Processes in Shaping Strategy2
Managing Mobility: Platform Work Models, Organizational Identification, and Food Delivery Couriers' Exit Intentions2
Disabled People Working in the Disability Sector: Occupational Segregation or Personal Fulfilment?2
Book Review: Panos Theodoropoulos, The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity TheodoropoulosPanosThe Precarious Migrant Worker: The So2
Algorithmically Managing Risk and the Risk of Managing Algorithms in Australian Homecare: A Managerial Perspective2
Radical Change and Institutional Resilience: The Case of Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe2
Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work2
The Discursive Power of Trade Union Leadership: Framing Identity Fields for Public Persuasion2
‘Divergent Work Ageing’ and Older Migrants’ (Un)extended Working Lives2
Young is Fun: Examining the Inter-Relations of Play and Age at Work2
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms2
‘A Good Death’: One Hospice Chaplain’s Approach to End-of-Life Care1
Repressive Equality Regimes: How Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Initiatives Constrain Equality and Conceal Politics at Work1
Thank You to Referees1
Constellations of Atypical Employment in Couples and Labour Income: Where is Disadvantage Located?1
The Makeshift Careers of Women in Malawi: Neither Traditional Nor Flexible1
A Contextual Model of Moral Injury: Redefining Trauma in Frontline Professions through Ethics and Context1
Book Review: Lars Meier, Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class1
The Association between Family Care and Paid Work among Women in Germany: Does the Household Economic Context Matter?1
Book Reviews: Virginia Doellgast, Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries1
Experiencing Deportation as Dirty Work? The Case of Dutch Escort Officers1
The Activating Welfare State and Precarisation: a Temporal Analysis of the Perceived Unemployment Risk in Switzerland, 1999–20191
Making Sense of Exploitation: Teenage Workers’ Experiences of Unpaid Labour in Low-Wage Service Jobs1
Book Review: Penny Dick, Rethinking Gender Inequalities in Organizations1
Book Reviews: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour1
Producing ‘The Right Candidate’: The Social Embeddedness of Labour Market Intermediaries for Migrant Workers in the Belgian Construction Sector1
‘It’s One Rule for Them and One for Us’: Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour1
Thank You to Referees 2023-241
Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality1
Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–20151
Neo-craft Work as Meaningful Work: Longing for Resonance1
Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective: How, Where and Why Do Platform Workers Protest?1
Fixed-term Employment and Subjective Well-being: A Comparison of Natives, Migrants and Refugees1
‘Our Backs Are Against the Wall’: The Story of a Bangladeshi Woman Garment Worker in the COVID-19 ‘New Normal’1
Bounded Well-Being: Designing Technologies for Workers’ Well-Being in Corporate Programmes1
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