OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Work Employment and Society is 7. 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.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education	169
Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality	71
Book Review: Alan Middleton, The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms MiddletonAlanThe Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, E	66
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers	60
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia	59
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States	53
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts	47
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis	38
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue	32
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace	30
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 Warehouse	28
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) GreerIanUmneyCharle	27
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, £29.99	25
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–2019	23
Ambivalent Inclusion: Older Workers, Diversity Agendas and the Persistence of the Ideal Worker	23
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain	22
Disaggregating Gender Income Disparities in STEM: Cohort and Family Factors in a Nordic Welfare State	22
Lay Moralities of Young Workers and the Moral Economy of Service Labour	22
Thank You to Referees	20
Organising Beyond the Employment Relationship: Scaling Up and Institutional Power in Own-Account Unions	18
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK	18
Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France	18
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model	17
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings	17

‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity	17
Book Review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano TreréAlgorithms of Resist	16
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality	16
Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work	16
Change and Resistance in the Royal Mail: Dispatches from the 2022/2023 Postal Workers’ Strike	16
Gaming Hope: Professional Women’s Football as Precarious Work	14
‘Get on Board or Get Off’: Nosediving Job Quality for Mental Health Providers in the Age of Platform Work	14
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working	14
Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution HolborowMarnie Home	13
Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation	13
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector	13
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour	12
Contesting Labour Violations in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields	12
Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes	12
Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace	12
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	11
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers	11
Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism	11
Developing a Standard Measure of Job Quality	10
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services	10
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace	10
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany	9
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 Alibaba	9
The Intensification–Extensification Dynamic: Hybrid Work and Digital Connectivity	9
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space	9
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots	9
Who You Know or What You Know? Job Search and Matching in the Presence of Network-Based Recruitment	9
Organizational Intersectionality: Do Gender and Migration Status Inequalities Reinforce or Offset Each Other in French Workplaces?	9
Fathers Combining Work and Care: Flexible Work Arrangements and Paternal Involvement Across Financial Situations	8
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	8
Special NEETs: Institutional Influences on School-to-Work Transitions of Young People with Disabilities in Europe	8
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 Capability	8
Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow	8
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work	8
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA	8
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.BertoliniSoniaGoglioVal	8
Framing Unions and Nurses	7
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment	7
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 France	7
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
What Does it Mean to be Passionate about Your Job? Three Meanings of ‘Collectively Oriented Passion’ in UK Pubs	7
Bridging the Gaps in Work Quality Research: A Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Review	7
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting	7
Glocalising Union Organising: How Access to Power Resources Enables and Constrains Global Union Federation Campaigns in the Global South	7
‘Lived Capitalisation’: How Speculative Finance Shapes the Social and Financial Lives of ‘Gig’ Workers in Bengaluru, India	7
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions	7