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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A labour–nature alliance for a social-ecological transformation	49
Book Review: The Gig Economy – Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence	31
EDITORIAL	28
COVID-19 and the opportunity to change the neoliberal agenda: evidence from socio-employment policy responses across Europe	26
Governing the work-related risks of AI: implications for the German government and trade unions	25
Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts	23
EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?	21
Algorithmic management and collective bargaining	20
Essential or excluded? Union pressures and state responses to platform work in three liberal market economies	20
Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe	19
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?	18
‘Intended’ and ‘unintended’ consequences of the privatisation of health and social care systems in Italy in light of the pandemic	18
Worker voice and algorithmic management in post-Brexit Britain	16
Book Reviews: Jane Holgate Arise. Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence	15
Editorial	14
The European Participation Index (EPI) and inequality: a multi-dimensional cross-national comparative measure of worker participation	13
Book Review: Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies	12
Making algorithms safe for workers: occupational risks associated with work managed by artificial intelligence	12
Searching for institutions: upgrading, private compliance, and due diligence in European apparel value chains	12
Trade unions anticipating alternative futures	11
Book Review: Who Cares? Attracting and Retaining Care Workers for the Elderly	10
Editorial and Introduction	10
Invisible but not unlimited – migrant workers and their working and living conditions	9
Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways	9
Can access to company boards improve transnational employee representation? Insights from employee representation in European Companies	9

The uncertain social insurance of intra-EU mobile construction workers	9
The divergent narratives and strategies of unions in times of social-ecological crises: fracking and the UK energy sector	8
Lost in transition? Social justice and the politics of the EU green transition	8
Collectivising services: a path to trade union renewal in Europe	8
What do data rights do for workers? A critical analysis of trade union engagement with the datafied workplace	8
‘Human resource management and the worker’: employee voice in management	8
Book Review: Luigi Burroni, Emmanuele Pavolini and Marino Regini (eds) Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited	7
A perfect storm: COVID-19 and the reorganisation of the German meat industry	7
Editorial	7
Editorial	7
Reconciliation policies in COVID times: what role for trade unions in Spain and Italy?	7
Book Review: Minimum Wage Regimes. Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels	6
Book review: Unwitting Architect – German Primacy and the Origins of Neoliberalism	5
Introduction to the Transfer special issue. Regulating AI at work: labour relations, automation, and algorithmic management	5
Applauded ‘nightingales’ voicing discontent. Exploring labour unrest in health and social care in Europe before and since the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Industrial relations and unemployment benefit schemes in the Visegrad countries during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Trade unions and the foundational economy: understanding shifting boundaries, politics and functions of economic participation and social action within industrial relations	4
Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states	4
Trade union struggle for workwear in Swedish elder care	4
Readjusting unemployment protection in Europe: how crises reshape varieties of labour market regimes	4
EDITORIAL	4
Time for a paradigm change? Incorporating transnational processes into the analysis of the emerging European health-care system	4
Book Review: Zwischen Globalismus und Demokratie: Politische Ökonomie im ausgehenden Neoliberalismus	4
The emerging corporate sustainability reporting system: what role for workers’ representatives?	4
From Taylorism to teams: organisational and institutional experimentation at France Télécom	4
Editorial	4
Financialisation, shareholder value orientation, and the decline of trade union membership in the EU	4
From a handful of activists towards an organising subculture: institutionalisation of transnational union organising in Central and Eastern Europe	4
It takes two to code: a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and artificial intelligence	4
Raising the bar? The impact of the UNISON ethical care campaign in UK domiciliary care	4
From one crisis to another: changes in the governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)	3
EDITORIAL	3
Governing neo-nationalism, trade unions and industrial relations: the cases of Hungary and Poland	3
The revival of Social Europe: is this time different?	3
A matter of fragmentation? Challenges for collective bargaining and employment conditions in the Spanish long-term care sector	3
EU migrant workers and the right to health in the Netherlands during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Transforming work towards social-ecological sustainability: a capability perspective	3
Editorial	3
Perspective. Human labour, a capitalist challenge	3
Agenda-setting as a trade union strategy: the case of the minimum wage in the Netherlands	3
Editorial	2
Introduction. Making work better	2
European unemployment insurance. From undercurrent to paradigm shift	2
Transformations of advanced capitalist democracies in the digital era	2
20 years after. Changing perspectives on industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe two decades after EU enlargement: from transition to transformation	2
The politics of inflation and revitalisation of wage solidarity in Scandinavia	2
Book Review: Media Capitalism. Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception	2
Round Table. From Lisbon to Porto: taking stock of developments in EU social policy: Why politics matter	2
Round Table. Implementing the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in southern Europe: the odd case of Italy	1
Book Review: Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy	1

The country-of-origin and country-of-operations effect on organised labour in multinational companies – exploring the role of labour relations models	1
Job retention schemes in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic – different shapes and sizes and the role of collective bargaining	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
Perspective. The mirage of Europeanising industrial relations. What possibilities for East-West trade union cooperation?	1
Employment policy for a just transition – the example of Germany	1
Crisis corporatism 2.0? The role of social dialogue in the pandemic crisis in Europe	1
Running to stand still? Two decades of trade union activity in the Irish long-term care sector	1
Employee participation at company level: institutions, articulation and challenges	1