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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
A labour–nature alliance for a social-ecological transformation	65
Book Review: The Gig Economy – Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence	36
Creating public value in hostile conditions: public procurement as an opportunity for collective bargaining in Poland and Slovakia	32
EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?	31
Governing the work-related risks of AI: implications for the German government and trade unions	30
Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts	26
COVID-19 and the opportunity to change the neoliberal agenda: evidence from socio-employment policy responses across Europe	25
Essential or excluded? Union pressures and state responses to platform work in three liberal market economies	22
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
Algorithmic management and collective bargaining	21
Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe	21
Book Reviews: Jane Holgate Arise. Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence	20
Editorial	20
The European Participation Index (EPI) and inequality: a multi-dimensional cross-national comparative measure of worker participation	18
Worker voice and algorithmic management in post-Brexit Britain	15
Book Review: Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies	14
Institutionalised power or crisis corporatism? Comparing Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Searching for institutions: upgrading, private compliance, and due diligence in European apparel value chains	14
Trade unions anticipating alternative futures	13
Book Review: Who Cares? Attracting and Retaining Care Workers for the Elderly	13
Editorial and Introduction	13
The uncertain social insurance of intra-EU mobile construction workers	11
Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways	11
Acknowledgements – referees	11
Can access to company boards improve transnational employee representation? Insights from employee representation in European Companies	10

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	9
Invisible but not unlimited – migrant workers and their working and living conditions	9
What do data rights do for workers? A critical analysis of trade union engagement with the datafied workplace	9
‘Human resource management and the worker’: employee voice in management	7
Lost in transition? Social justice and the politics of the EU green transition	7
Collectivising services: a path to trade union renewal in Europe	7
The role of trade union power resources in experimenting with ‘buying decent work’: the case of the Italian public procurement protocols	6
A perfect storm: COVID-19 and the reorganisation of the German meat industry	6
Editorial	6
Book Review: Luigi Burroni, Emmanuele Pavolini and Marino Regini (eds) Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited	6
Reconciliation policies in COVID times: what role for trade unions in Spain and Italy?	6
Editorial	6
Introduction to the Transfer special issue. Regulating AI at work: labour relations, automation, and algorithmic management	5
From a handful of activists towards an organising subculture: institutionalisation of transnational union organising in Central and Eastern Europe	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
Book Review: Zwischen Globalismus und Demokratie: Politische Ökonomie im ausgehenden Neoliberalismus	5
Book review: Unwitting Architect – German Primacy and the Origins of Neoliberalism	5
EDITORIAL	5
Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states	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: Minimum Wage Regimes. Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels	5
The emerging corporate sustainability reporting system: what role for workers’ representatives?	4
EDITORIAL	4
From Taylorism to teams: organisational and institutional experimentation at France Télécom	4
Perspective. Human labour, a capitalist challenge	4
Introduction to the special issue: Conflict and coordination in the cost-of-living crisis	4
It takes two to code: a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and artificial intelligence	4
EU migrant workers and the right to health in the Netherlands during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Readjusting unemployment protection in Europe: how crises reshape varieties of labour market regimes	4
The revival of Social Europe: is this time different?	3
Governing neo-nationalism, trade unions and industrial relations: the cases of Hungary and Poland	3
Transforming work towards social-ecological sustainability: a capability perspective	3
Editorial	3
Agenda-setting as a trade union strategy: the case of the minimum wage in the Netherlands	3
Editorial	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	2
The politics of inflation and revitalisation of wage solidarity in Scandinavia	2
Introduction. Making work better	2
20 years after. Changing perspectives on industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe two decades after EU enlargement: from transition to transformation	2
Transformations of advanced capitalist democracies in the digital era	2
From one crisis to another: changes in the governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)	2
European unemployment insurance. From undercurrent to paradigm shift	2
Crisis corporatism 2.0? The role of social dialogue in the pandemic crisis in Europe	2
Examining recent initiatives to ensure labour rights for platform workers in the European Union to tackle the problem of domination	1
Contingent workers and innovative digital collective action in Europe. Exploring inclusiveness through political intersectionality	1
The country-of-origin and country-of-operations effect on organised labour in multinational companies – exploring the role of labour relations models	1

Perspective. The mirage of Europeanising industrial relations. What possibilities for East-West trade union cooperation?	1
Promoting human-centred AI in the workplace. Trade unions and their strategies for regulating the use of AI in Germany	1
The political economy of inflation management: the case of Greece	1
Employment policy for a just transition – the example of Germany	1
Employee participation at company level: institutions, articulation and challenges	1
Editorial	1
From a ‘just transition for us’ to a ‘just transition for all’	1
Round Table. Nordic unions and the European Minimum Wage Directive	1
Job retention schemes in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic – different shapes and sizes and the role of collective bargaining	1
Book Review: Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy	1
Shielding competitiveness: Germany’s wage policy during the inflation shock years in comparative perspective	1
Tensions and experimentation in setting, extending and enforcing working conditions: case studies of labour clauses in public procurement	1