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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
‘My Life Is More Valuable Than This’: Understanding Risk among On-Demand Food Couriers in Edinburgh	77
At Least I’m My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work	34
Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam	29
Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention	25
The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service	24
The Worker Capabilities Approach: Insights from Worker Mobilizations in Italian Logistics and Food Delivery	24
Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom	23
Digi-Housekeeping: The Invisible Work of Flexibility	23
With a Little Help from My Friends: Social-Network Job Search and Overqualification among Recent Intra-EU Migrants Moving from East to West	22
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	22
Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics	22
‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives	21
Data Scientists’ Identity Work: Omnivorous Symbolic Boundaries in Skills Acquisition	20
Precarity as a Biographical Problem? Young Workers Living with Precarity in Germany and Poland	20
Career Advancement for Women in the British Hospitality Industry: The Enabling Factors	18
Economic Inactivity, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and Scarring: The Importance of NEET as a Marker of Long-Term Disadvantage	18
Upskilling, Deskilling or Polarisation? Evidence on Change in Skills in Europe	17
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	16
Do Equal Qualifications Yield Equal Rewards for Immigrants in the Labour Market?	16
‘Good’ Bad Jobs? The Evolution of Migrant Low-Wage Employment in Germany (1985–2015)	16
‘It’s Like a War Zone’: Jay’s Liminal Experience of Normal and Extreme Work in a UK Supermarket during the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs	16
Women Professors across STEMM and Non-STEMM Disciplines: Navigating Gendered Spaces and Playing the Academic Game	16
Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’	16
The Making of Cheap Labour across Production and Reproduction: Control and Resistance in the Senegalese Horticultural Value Chain	15

‘Working to Live, Not Living to Work’: Low-Paid Multiple Employment and Work–Life Articulation	14
The Relative Quality of Sex Work	14
A Capability Approach to Understand the Scarring Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity: Developing the Research Agenda	14
When Can a Disability Quota System Empower Disabled Individuals in the Workplace? The Case of France	14
Disability and Academic Careers: Using the Social Relational Model to Reveal the Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Creating Disability	14
‘You Just Had to Get on with It’: Exploring the Persistence of Gender Inequality through Women’s Career Histories	14
Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms	13
Profit over People? Evaluating Morality on the Front Line during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Front-Line Service Manager’s Confession and Regrets	13
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work	13
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia	13
Occupations and the Non-Standard Employment Career: How the Occupational Skill Level and Task Types Influence the Career Outcomes of Non-Standard Employment	12
Reproducing Global Inequalities in the Online Labour Market: Valuing Capital in the Design Field	12
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work	12
Gender Wage Gap and the Involvement of Partners in Household Work	12
Doing and Negotiating Transgender on the Front Line: Customer Abuse, Transphobia and Stigma in the Food Retail Sector	12
Masters of None? How Cultural Workers Use Reframing to Achieve Legitimacy in Portfolio Careers	12
Vice-Chancellor Pay and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Vice-Chancellor Characteristics	11
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines	11
Sticks and Stones: The Naming of Global Talent	11
Youth, Work and ‘Career’ as a Way of Talking about the Self	11
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency	11
Relationship-Based Care Work, Austerity and Aged Care	10
Job Satisfaction and Sexual Orientation in Britain	10
‘They’ve Been with Me the Whole Journey’: Temporality, Emotional Labour and Hairdressing Work	10
Configurations of Boundary Management Practices among Knowledge Workers	10
Negotiating Gendered Ageing: Intersectional Reflexivity and Experiences of Incongruity of Self-Employed Older Women	10
Rethinking Situated Learning: Participation and Communities of Practice in the UK Fire and Rescue Service	10
Conceptualising ‘Meta-Work’ in the Context of Continuous, Global Mobility: The Case of Digital Nomadism	10
Consuming Worker Exploitation? Accounts and Justifications for Consumer (In)action to Modern Slavery	10
Gender Role Attitudes and Labour Market Behaviours: Do Attitudes Contribute to Gender Differences in Employment in Germany?	9
Killing Them ‘Softly’ (!): Exploring Work Experiences in Care-Based Animal Dirty Work	9
Trade Union Power Resources within the Supply Chain: Marketisation, Marginalisation, Mobilisation	9
Stressed, Depressed and Exhausted: Six Years as a Teacher in UK State Education	9
The Partner Pay Gap: Associations between Spouses’ Relative Earnings and Life Satisfaction among Couples in the UK	9
A Heterodox Re-Reading of Creative Work: The Diverse Economies of Danish Visual Artists	9
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study	9
Possible Selves in a Transforming Economy: Upwardly Mobile Working-Class Masculinities, Service Work and Negotiated Aspirations in Australia	8
Why Do Humans Remain Central to the Knowledge Work in the Age of Robots? Marx’sFragment on Machinesand Beyond	8
Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services	8
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	8
McStrike! Framing, (Political) Opportunity and the Development of a Collective Identity: McDonald’s and the UK Fast-Food Rights Campaign	8
Fathers’ Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements: Evidence from the UK	8
When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry	8
Emotional Labour and the Autonomy of Dependent Self-Employed Workers: The Limitations of Digital Managerial Control in the Home Credit Sector	8
The Employment Trajectories of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence	7
Bringing Women on Board? Family Policies, Quotas and Gender Diversity in Top Jobs	7
‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level	7
Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan	7
The ‘Grey Zone’ at the Interface of Work and Home: Theorizing Adaptations Required by Precarious Work	7
Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations	7

Working Hard for the Ones You Love and Care for Under Covid-19 Physical Distancing	7
Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain	7
Trapped in Precariousness? Risks and Opportunities of Female Immigrants and Natives Transitioning from Part-Time Jobs in Spain	7
Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography	7
Working from Home in Urban China during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assemblages of Work-Family Interference	7
Precarious Education-to-Work Transitions: Entering Welfare Professions under a Workfarist Regime	7
Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control	7
Moral Dilemma of Striking: A Medical Worker’s Response to Job Duty, Public Health Protection and the Politicization of Strikes	6
Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–2015	6
The Impact of Unemployment and Non-Standard Forms of Employment on the Housing Autonomy of Young Adults	6
Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China	6
No Voice, No Choice: Assessing Danish Active Labour Market Policies Using Sen’s Capability Approach	6
Migrants at Work: Perspectives, Perceptions and New Connections	6
Trouble in Direct Payment Personal Assistance Relationships	6
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment	6
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	6
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms	6
Refugee Subentrepreneurship: The Emergence of a Liquid Cage	6
Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State	6
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19	6