OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Industrial Relations is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Workplace gender equality in the post-pandemic era: Where to next?	27
Work–life balance and gig work: ‘Where are we now’ and ‘where to next’ with the work–life balance agenda?	26
Agents of transition or defenders of the status quo? Trade union strategies in green transitions	15
International organisations and the future of work: How new technologies and inequality shaped the narratives in 2019	15
COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Implications for workers and unions	13
Digital unionism as a renewal strategy? Social media use by trade union confederations	12
‘We’re in the coal business’: Maintaining fossil fuel hegemony in the face of climate change	12
‘Zones of contention’ in industrial relations: Framing pluralism as praxis	11
The evolving nature of labour inspection, enforcement of employment rights and the regulatory reach of the state in Britain	11
The Australian labour market in 2019	11
Too hot to handle? An analysis of chefs’ job quality in Australian restaurants	10
Employer-led flexibility, working time uncertainty, and trade union responses: The case of academics, teachers and school secretaries in Ireland	10
Safeguarding women at work? Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand on effectively implementing domestic violence policies	10
Australian industrial relations in 2019: The year wage theft went mainstream	10
Agonising over industrial relations: Bringing agonism and dissensus to the pluralist frames of reference	10
Wage-setting and gender pay equality in Australia: Advances, retreats and future prospects	9
Collective regulation and the future of work in the digital economy: Insights from comparative employment relations	9
Climate change and industrial relations: Reflections on an emerging field	9
Gender equality and paid parental leave in Australia: A decade of giant leaps or baby steps?	9
Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2020	8
Peer-to-peer online voice as emergent collective action	8
Union framing of gender equality and the elusive potential of equality bargaining in a difficult climate	8
Slowing the treadmill for a good life for All? German trade union narratives and social-ecological transformation	8
Equal pay for work of equal value, wage-setting and the gender pay gap	8
Modern slavery in global value chains: A global factory and governance perspective	8

The importance of competition and consumer law in regulating gig work and beyond	7
The role of the state in influencing work conditions in China's internet industry: Policy, evidence, and implications for industrial relations	7
Fighting (for) the margins: Trade union responses to the emergence of cross-border temporary agency work in the European Union	7
Reframing the narrative: Renewing power resources and capabilities in union campaigns for public education	7
Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2019	7
The state as regulator? The ‘dual-track’ system of employment in the Chinese public sector and barriers to equal pay for equal work	7
Female outsiders in South Korea’s dual labour market: Challenges of equal pay for work of equal value	7
COVID-normal workplaces: Should working from home be a ‘collective flexibility’?	6
Barriers to ‘equal pay for work of equal value’ for women in Japan: Assessing the potential for change	6
Regulating for gender-equitable decent work in social and community services: Bringing the state back in	6
Using unitarist, pluralist, and radical frames to map the cross-section distribution of employment relations across workplaces: A four-country empirical investigation of patterns and determinants	6
The revival and refashioning of gender pay equity in New Zealand	6
Modern slavery and the employment relationship: Exploring the continuum of exploitation	6
Experiences of precariousness and exploitation of Romanian transnational live-in care workers in Austria	6
Outsourcing the enforcement of modern slavery: Overcoming the limitations of a market-based disclosure model	5
Decent gig work in Sub Sahara Africa?	5
Australian industrial relations in 2020: COVID-19, crisis and opportunity	5
Nonstandard Employment and Indigenous Earnings Inequality in Canada	5
Redressing gendered undervaluation in New Zealand aged care: Institutions, activism and coalitions	5