OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Transfer-European Review of Labour and Research 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A labour–nature alliance for a social-ecological transformation	93
Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts	60
EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?	58
Creating public value in hostile conditions: public procurement as an opportunity for collective bargaining in Poland and Slovakia	53
Governing the work-related risks of AI: implications for the German government and trade unions	40
Essential or excluded? Union pressures and state responses to platform work in three liberal market economies	35
Algorithmic management and collective bargaining	32
Social dialogue in the shadow of ad hoc government advisory bodies: the case of Central and Eastern Europe	31
Editorial	26
Book Review: Bernhard Ebbinghaus and J Timo Weishaupt The role of social partners in managing Europe’s great recession. Crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis?	25
Book Reviews: Jane Holgate Arise. Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence	25
Editorial	23
The European Participation Index (EPI) and inequality: a multi-dimensional cross-national comparative measure of worker participation	17
Worker voice and algorithmic management in post-Brexit Britain	17
The labour fix : workers and unions within the Green automotive transition	17
Institutionalised power or crisis corporatism? Comparing Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Book Review: Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies	14
Still asking for ‘more Europe’: understanding support for the EU among Italian and Romanian health-care unions	13
Searching for institutions: upgrading, private compliance, and due diligence in European apparel value chains	11
Trade unions and labour market inactivity: a continuing sense of solidarity and belonging	11
Trade unions anticipating alternative futures	11
Disrupting carbon lock-in from below: union coalitions in Civitavecchia and the making of a just transition in Italy’s energy sector	11
Acknowledgements – referees	11
The uncertain social insurance of intra-EU mobile construction workers	9
Usages of ‘soft’ EU labour law: the implementation of the Minimum Wage Directive	9

Can access to company boards improve transnational employee representation? Insights from employee representation in European Companies	8
Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways	8
How can trade unions act strategically in response to decarbonisation? Union strategic capacity and automotive transition policies in Germany, Spain and the UK	7
Lost in transition? Social justice and the politics of the EU green transition	7
What do data rights do for workers? A critical analysis of trade union engagement with the datafied workplace	7
Collectivising services: a path to trade union renewal in Europe	7
‘Human resource management and the worker’: employee voice in management	7
Conference ‘Labor and the Transition to Electric Vehicles: a global perspective’ Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, New York, 9–10 May 2025	7
Fragmented solidarity: self-employed platform workers and employees in the hospitality sector	7
Union power and the green automotive transition: comparing bargaining episodes in the US and Germany, 2023–2024	7
Arbeitnehmer:innen als Klima-Akteure: Was können Gewerkschaften gegen den Klimawandel unternehmen? Einleitung	6
Editorial	6
Can a shorter full-time standard working week contribute to gender equality in the labour market? The debate on working time reduction: a gender perspective	6
Book Review: Luigi Burroni, Emmanuele Pavolini and Marino Regini (eds) Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited	6
The role of trade union power resources in experimenting with ‘buying decent work’: the case of the Italian public procurement protocols	6
Editorial	5
A right to disconnect as a necessary addition to working time reduction	5
Just transitions in global economies? Union and worker understandings of justice in Germany and South Africa compared	5
Introduction to the Transfer special issue. Regulating AI at work: labour relations, automation, and algorithmic management	5
Working time reduction from a health, safety and well-being perspective	5
Crisis corporatism under strain: institutional power and the protection of vulnerable groups in Türkiye and Serbia	5
Trade unions and the foundational economy: understanding shifting boundaries, politics and functions of economic participation and social action within industrial relations	4
Editorial	4
Financialisation, shareholder value orientation, and the decline of trade union membership in the EU	4
It takes two to code: a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and artificial intelligence	3
EU migrant workers and the right to health in the Netherlands during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Gender, climate change and trade unions: moving past the male industrial worker archetype	3
The emerging corporate sustainability reporting system: what role for workers’ representatives?	3
From Taylorism to teams: organisational and institutional experimentation at France Télécom	3
Introduction to the special issue: Conflict and coordination in the cost-of-living crisis	3
Political and labour activism of Polish workers in the UK	3
How do workers and their unions become climate actors? A research framework	3
Perspective. Human labour, a capitalist challenge	3
Editorial	3
From a handful of activists towards an organising subculture: institutionalisation of transnational union organising in Central and Eastern Europe	3
Transforming work towards social-ecological sustainability: a capability perspective	2
Editorial	2
Introduction. Making work better	2
Can crisis corporatism protect vulnerable workers? Conceptual insights from a European perspective	2
Les travailleurs comme acteurs stratégiques de la transition climatique : Que peuvent faire les syndicats ? Introduction	2
The revival of Social Europe: is this time different?	2
Governing neo-nationalism, trade unions and industrial relations: the cases of Hungary and Poland	2
Perspective. Give working lives more time to breathe. A plea for temporal drawing rights	2
The politics of inflation and revitalisation of wage solidarity in Scandinavia	2
Agenda-setting as a trade union strategy: the case of the minimum wage in the Netherlands	2
Editorial	2
Book Review: Media Capitalism. Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception	2
20 years after. Changing perspectives on industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe two decades after EU enlargement: from transition to transformation	2
From a ‘just transition for us’ to a ‘just transition for all’	1
Review Essay: Wolfgang Münchau’s Kaput and the three analytical lenses of comparative political economy MünchauWolfgangKaput. The End of the German Mirac	1

Round Table. Nordic unions and the European Minimum Wage Directive	1
Shifting gears: how platform companies maintain power in app-based food delivery in Norway	1
From words to action? How procedural norms contribute to building transnational labour relations via global framework agreements	1
Book Review: Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy	1
The robots strike back? Industrial action, automation and the mediating role of institutions in Europe	1
Employee participation at company level: institutions, articulation and challenges	1
Examining recent initiatives to ensure labour rights for platform workers in the European Union to tackle the problem of domination	1
Tensions and experimentation in setting, extending and enforcing working conditions: case studies of labour clauses in public procurement	1
Round Table. Implementing the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in southern Europe: the odd case of Italy	1
Navigating cross-border labour mobility and employment security in European shipbuilding: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis	1
The political economy of inflation management: the case of Greece	1
The country-of-origin and country-of-operations effect on organised labour in multinational companies – exploring the role of labour relations models	1
Shielding competitiveness: Germany’s wage policy during the inflation shock years in comparative perspective	1
Contingent workers and innovative digital collective action in Europe. Exploring inclusiveness through political intersectionality	1
Promoting human-centred AI in the workplace. Trade unions and their strategies for regulating the use of AI in Germany	1
Employment policy for a just transition – the example of Germany	1
Introduction to special issue: Access of mobile workers to social rights in the pan-European labour market	1
Round Table. Implementing the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in the Low Countries: the case of the Netherlands	1
Perspective. The mirage of Europeanising industrial relations. What possibilities for East-West trade union cooperation?	1