OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Work Employment and Society is 6. 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.)

Article	Citations
Trans People in the Workplace: Possibilities for Subverting Heteronormativity	88
Why Do So Many People Not Vote? Correlates of Participation in Trade Union Strike Ballots	45
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 Disruption	39
Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat	38
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation	36
The Socio-Materiality of Dirty Work: A Critical Realist Perspective	34
Book Review: Paul David Harpur, Ableism at Work: Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment	33
Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets	33
Staying Down with the Joneses: Differences in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment across Neighbourhoods	32
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis	29
Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement	28
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education	28
Conceptualising Work as a ‘Safe Space’ for Negotiating LGBT Identities: Navigating Careers in the Construction Sector	26
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 Services	24
‘You Can’t Eat Soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South	21
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue	19
Organized Crime and Employment Relations: A Personal Story of ‘Ndrangheta Control on Employment Relations Management Practices in Southern Italy	17
‘Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life’: Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs	16
Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media	16
Book Review: Calla Hummel, Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State	15
Temporary Contracts, Employment Trajectories and Dualisation: A Comparison of Norway and Sweden	15
‘Difficult to Divulge’: The Impact of Organisational Silence around the Menopause	15
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	15
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19	14

Retirement in Western Germany – How Workplace Tasks Influence Its Timing	14
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs	14
Radical Change and Institutional Resilience: The Case of Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe	13
Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time	13
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace	13
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers	12
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots	12
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany	11
Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour	11
Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany	11
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba	11
Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success	11
Embedded Strangers in One’s Own Job? Freelance Interpreters’ Invisible Work: A Practice Theory Approach	10
Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work	10
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts	10
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 Academia	10
Boards for Diversity? A Critical Economic Sociology of British South Asian Senior Leaders’ Experiences of the Executive Level of Football	10
Who Gains From Organizational Flexibility? Flexible Organizational Practices and Wage Inequality	10
Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State	9
Trade Union Solidarity in Crisis: The Generative Tensions of Worker Solidarities in Argentina	9
Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector	9
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines	9
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States	9
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies	9
Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China	9
Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time	9
Influences on Employment Transitions around the Birth of the First Child: The Experience of Italian Mothers	8
Book Review: David Etherington, Austerity, Welfare and Work: Exploring Politics, Geographies and Inequalities	8
From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work	8
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil	8
Betwixt and Between: The Invisible Experiences of Volunteers’ Body Work	8
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace	8
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 Dispossession	8
Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making	8
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency	8
Book Review: Paul Stewart, Jean-Pierre Durand and Maria-Magdalena Richea (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of the Sociology of Work in Europe	7
‘Working While Feeling Awful Is Normal’: One Roma’s Experience of Presenteeism	7
Book Review: Rachael A Woldoff and Robert C Litchfield, Digital Nomads: In Search of Meaningful Work in the New Economy	7
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability	7
Experiencing Deportation as Dirty Work? The Case of Dutch Escort Officers	7
Organising Against Precarity: The Life of a South African Labour Broker Worker	7
Book Review: Matt Vidal, Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management	7
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	7
The Impact of Remote Work on Managerial Compliance: Changes in the Control Regime over Line Managers	7
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany	6
Wage Effects of Couples’ Divisions of Labour across the UK Wage Distribution	6
‘Basically He’s a Pet, Not a Working Dog’: Theorising What Therapy Dogs Do in the Workplace	6
Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service	6

Between Settlement and Mobilization: Political Logics of Intra-Organizational Union Communication on Social Media	6
Thank You to Referees	6
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile	6
Extreme Lockdowns and the Gendered Informalization of Employment: Evidence from the Philippines	6
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition	6
Unpromising Futures: Early-Career GPs’ Narrative Accounts of Meaningful Work during a Professional Workforce Crisis	6
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions	6
(Doing) Time Is Money: Confinement, Prison Work and the Reproduction of Carceral Capitalism	6
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work	6
‘Dances with Daffodils’: Life as a Flower-picker in Southwest England	6
Why Female Employees Do Not Earn More under a Female Manager: A Mixed-Method Study	6