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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A labour–nature alliance for a social-ecological transformation	55
Governing the work-related risks of AI: implications for the German government and trade unions	32
Book Review: The Gig Economy – Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence	32
EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?	30
Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts	29
COVID-19 and the opportunity to change the neoliberal agenda: evidence from socio-employment policy responses across Europe	26
Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe	25
Essential or excluded? Union pressures and state responses to platform work in three liberal market economies	22
Algorithmic management and collective bargaining	21
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?	21
Editorial	20
Book Reviews: Jane Holgate Arise. Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence	20
The European Participation Index (EPI) and inequality: a multi-dimensional cross-national comparative measure of worker participation	17
Book Review: Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies	15
Worker voice and algorithmic management in post-Brexit Britain	15
Searching for institutions: upgrading, private compliance, and due diligence in European apparel value chains	14
Institutionalised power or crisis corporatism? Comparing Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Editorial and Introduction	13
Trade unions anticipating alternative futures	13
Acknowledgements – referees	12
Book Review: Who Cares? Attracting and Retaining Care Workers for the Elderly	12
Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways	11
The uncertain social insurance of intra-EU mobile construction workers	11
Can access to company boards improve transnational employee representation? Insights from employee representation in European Companies	10
Lost in transition? Social justice and the politics of the EU green transition	9

What do data rights do for workers? A critical analysis of trade union engagement with the datafied workplace	9
Collectivising services: a path to trade union renewal in Europe	9
Invisible but not unlimited – migrant workers and their working and living conditions	9
The role of trade union power resources in experimenting with ‘buying decent work’: the case of the Italian public procurement protocols	7
‘Human resource management and the worker’: employee voice in management	7
A perfect storm: COVID-19 and the reorganisation of the German meat industry	6
Editorial	6
Editorial	6
Book Review: Minimum Wage Regimes. Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels	6
Reconciliation policies in COVID times: what role for trade unions in Spain and Italy?	6
Book Review: Luigi Burroni, Emmanuele Pavolini and Marino Regini (eds) Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited	6
Introduction to the Transfer special issue. Regulating AI at work: labour relations, automation, and algorithmic management	5
Trade unions and the foundational economy: understanding shifting boundaries, politics and functions of economic participation and social action within industrial relations	5
Book Review: Zwischen Globalismus und Demokratie: Politische Ökonomie im ausgehenden Neoliberalismus	5
Editorial	5
Industrial relations and unemployment benefit schemes in the Visegrad countries during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Financialisation, shareholder value orientation, and the decline of trade union membership in the EU	5
EDITORIAL	5
Book review: Unwitting Architect – German Primacy and the Origins of Neoliberalism	5
Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states	5
From a handful of activists towards an organising subculture: institutionalisation of transnational union organising in Central and Eastern Europe	5
Readjusting unemployment protection in Europe: how crises reshape varieties of labour market regimes	4
The emerging corporate sustainability reporting system: what role for workers’ representatives?	4
Perspective. Human labour, a capitalist challenge	4
From Taylorism to teams: organisational and institutional experimentation at France Télécom	4
EDITORIAL	4
It takes two to code: a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and artificial intelligence	4
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
Editorial	3
Introduction to the special issue: Conflict and coordination in the cost-of-living crisis	3
European unemployment insurance. From undercurrent to paradigm shift	3
Agenda-setting as a trade union strategy: the case of the minimum wage in the Netherlands	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
Round Table. Implementing the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in southern Europe: the odd case of Italy	2
From one crisis to another: changes in the governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)	2
Book Review: Media Capitalism. Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception	2
Crisis corporatism 2.0? The role of social dialogue in the pandemic crisis in Europe	2
Contingent workers and innovative digital collective action in Europe. Exploring inclusiveness through political intersectionality	2
Editorial	2
Introduction. Making work better	2
Employment policy for a just transition – the example of Germany	2
Round Table. From Lisbon to Porto: taking stock of developments in EU social policy: Why politics matter	2
The politics of inflation and revitalisation of wage solidarity in Scandinavia	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
Job retention schemes in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic – different shapes and sizes and the role of collective bargaining	1
From a ‘just transition for us’ to a ‘just transition for all’	1
Editorial	1

Tensions and experimentation in setting, extending and enforcing working conditions: case studies of labour clauses in public procurement	1
Round Table. Nordic unions and the European Minimum Wage Directive	1
Book Review: Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy	1
Employee participation at company level: institutions, articulation and challenges	1
The country-of-origin and country-of-operations effect on organised labour in multinational companies – exploring the role of labour relations models	1
The political economy of inflation management: the case of Greece	1
Shifting gears: how platform companies maintain power in app-based food delivery in Norway	1
Perspective. The mirage of Europeanising industrial relations. What possibilities for East-West trade union cooperation?	1
Shielding competitiveness: Germany’s wage policy during the inflation shock years in comparative perspective	1
Promoting human-centred AI in the workplace. Trade unions and their strategies for regulating the use of AI in Germany	1
Examining recent initiatives to ensure labour rights for platform workers in the European Union to tackle the problem of domination	1