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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education	141
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis	59
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts	54
Book Review: Alan Middleton, The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms MiddletonAlanThe Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, E	51
Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality	49
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue	48
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia	46
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers	41
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States	39
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace	37
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain	28
Lay Moralities of Young Workers and the Moral Economy of Service Labour	26
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) GreerIanUmneyCharle	26
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, £29.99	25
Disaggregating Gender Income Disparities in STEM: Cohort and Family Factors in a Nordic Welfare State	24
Coercion and Consent under Techno-Economic Despotism: Workers’ Alienation and ‘Liberation’ in the Amazon Warehouse	23
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	22
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany	21
Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work	19
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model	19
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–2019	19
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK	18
Thank You to Referees	18
Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France	18
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency	18

Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	17
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings	16
Change and Resistance in the Royal Mail: Dispatches from the 2022/2023 Postal Workers’ Strike	15
Book Review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano TreréAlgorithms of Resist	15
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity	15
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	13
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality	13
Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes	12
Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution HolborowMarnie Home	12
Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation	12
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector	12
Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace	11
Employer Participation in Active Labour Market Policies in the United Kingdom and Denmark: The Effect of Employer Associations as Social Networks and the Mediating Role of Collective Voice	11
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers	10
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	10
Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism	10
Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry	10
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour	10
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace	10
Organizational Intersectionality: Do Gender and Migration Status Inequalities Reinforce or Offset Each Other in French Workplaces?	9
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services	9
Developing a Standard Measure of Job Quality	9
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots	9
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
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform inNeoliberal Chile Pérez-AhumadaPabloBuilding Power to	8
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space	8
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability	8
Framing Unions and Nurses	8
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work	8
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba	8
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting	8
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA	8
Special NEETs: Institutional Influences on School-to-Work Transitions of Young People with Disabilities in Europe	8
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective	8
Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow	7
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
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	7
The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France	7
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	7
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment	6
Bridging the Gaps in Work Quality Research: A Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Review	6
Is Workplace Flexibility Penalised? The Gendered Consequences of Working from Home for the Wages of Parents and Childless Employees in the UK	6
‘Lived Capitalisation’: How Speculative Finance Shapes the Social and Financial Lives of ‘Gig’ Workers in Bengaluru, India	6
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions	6
What Does it Mean to be Passionate about Your Job? Three Meanings of ‘Collectively Oriented Passion’ in UK Pubs	6
The Role of Boundary-Spanners in the Control of a Chinese Garment Factory in Myanmar	6
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector	6

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	6
Book Review: Stephen R Barley, Work and Technological Change	6
Glocalising Union Organising: How Access to Power Resources Enables and Constrains Global Union Federation Campaigns in the Global South	6
Book Review: Eva Fodor, The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary	6
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics’ Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity	6