OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Work and Occupations is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Precarity 2.0	64
Voiceless at Work: Decision-Making Participation, Subjective Power, and Mental Health in a Pandemic	32
Women Managers and the Gender Wage Gap: Workgroup Gender Composition Matters	31
From Movements to Managers: Crossing Organizational Boundaries in the Field of Sustainability	31
Balancing Acts: Composite Careers in Nashville's Music and Service Industries	25
Looking Right, Looking Busy: The Vigilant Body and the Production of Performative Surveillance in Private Security	25
Book Review: Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation by McKelvey, Patrick McKelveyPatrick. (2024). Disability Works: Performance After Rehabil	25
A Forced Vacation? The Stress of Being Temporarily Laid Off During a Pandemic	21
“It’s Not Like Chasing Chanel:” Spending Time, Investing in the Self, and Pandemic Epiphanies	20
Banerjee, P. (2022). The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program	19
Occupational Activism and the New Labor Activism: Illustrations from the Education Sector and an Agenda for Future Research	17
Running From the Union Label? Labor and Business Political Mobilization in the Golden Age	17
Korczynski, Marek. The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It Korczynski, Marek. (2024). The Sociology of	17
Democratizing the Economy or Introducing Economic Risk? Gig Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Tremblay, D. G., & Krauss, G. (Eds.) The Coworking (R)evolution: Working and living in new territories TremblayD. G., & KraussG. (Eds.). (2024).	15
Building Worker Voice and Power in AI Decisions: Three Cases in the German ICT Industry	15
Labor Games, Citizenship, and Control: Book Review Essay of Weststar & Legault and Wu Legault, M. and Weststar, J. (2024). Not All Fun and Games: Videogame Labour, Project-b	14
More Than a Match: “Fit” as a Tool in Hiring Decisions	13
Do Large Employers Discriminate Less? An Exploration of Company Size Variation in Disability Discrimination Based on Data from two Field Experiments	13
Dealing with Overload in a Supportive Workplace: Individual Strategies in Response to Unpaid Overtime Work	12
Carcillo, S., Valfort and M. Invisible Barriers: Understanding and Overcoming Discrimination in the Workplace CarcilloS.ValfortM. (2025).	11
Commercial Gentefication as Occupational Activism: How Business Owners Work to Preserve Latinx Barrios in	11
Horowitz, R. Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career HorowitzR. (2024). Passionate Work: Choreographing a Dance Career. Stanford, CA: Stanford Uni	10
Professor-in-Training: Status Control of the Teaching Assistant	10
Who is Replaced by Robots? Robotization and the Risk of Unemployment for Different Types of Workers	10

Inequality in Household Job Insecurity and Mental Health: Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Inertia, Progress, or Regress? Observing and Explaining Heterogenous Tech Firm Demographic Diversity Trajectories	9
Gig Work and the Pandemic: Looking for Good Pay from Bad Jobs During the COVID-19 Crisis	9
Resurfacing Dignity as a Tool for the Unionization of African American Lower-Tier Workers	8
Are New Technologies Empowering Workers? Digital Lean Production and the Reorganization of Work in Manufacturing	8
Forsaking an Organization in Favor of Another: Judgment Change in an Occupational Community	7
Unionizing High Tech: Opportunities and Obstacles	7
Street-Level Educators: The Selective Recognition of Students and Invisible TA Labor	7
The Demographic Context of Hiring Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment in 50 Metropolitan Statistical Areas	7
AI Skill Demand and Employment Stratification in Copyright-Intensive Information Industries: Evidence from Job Postings and Industry-Level Employment Data	7
Doellgast, Virginia. 2022. Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries	7
Labor Unions, Debt, and Financial Advantage in Young Adulthood in the United States	7
Enchanting Pedagogy: Creating Labor Games in the Extractive University	7
The Life Course of Unemployment: The Timing and Relative Degree of Risk	6
Racializing Labor Discipline in the Carceral Employment System	6
Prime Suspect: Mechanisms of Labor Control at Amazon's Warehouses	6
Lost in Translation: Gender Gap in Education–Occupation Mismatch among Highly Educated Workers	6
Precarious Employment during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Disability-Related Discrimination, and Mental Health	6
The New Labor Activism, a New Labor Sociology	6
The Workplace Dynamics of Wage Inequality: Exploring the Impact of Organizational Demography	6
Employment Precarity, COVID-19 Risk, and Workers' Well-Being During the Pandemic in Europe	6
“I’ve Come to This Approach Through a Lot of Learning and Unlearning”: Resocialization as Preparation for Occupational Activism	5
Precarious Employment and Well-Being: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
The Boundaries of Care: The Revelation of Invisible Social Labor in a Time of Crisis	5
Husain, Fauzia. The Stigma Matrix: Gener, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan’s Frontline Women HusainFauzia. 2024. The Stig	5
Intersections and Commonalities: Using Matching to Decompose Wage Gaps by Gender and Nativity in Germany	5
Analyzing Trans ^{and Nonbinary Workers’ Response to Workplace Discrimination}	4
Serving Like an Organization: How Foodservice and Retail Workers Interpret Their Interactions With Customers	3
Toward a Field of Labor Activism	3
Technology Makers as De Facto Work Designers in American Healthcare	3
The Militarization of Employment Relations: Racialized Surveillance and Worker Control in Amazon Fulfillment Centers	3
Book Review: The Weight of the White Coat: Latinos Navigating American Medicine by Flores, G. M. FloresG. M. (2025). The Weight of the White Coat: Latino	3
Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin (Eds.) Public Workers in Service of America: A Reader Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin (Eds.). Pub	3
Petre, C. All The News That's Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists PetreC. (2021). All The News That's Fit to Click: How Me	2
The Future(s) of Work? Disparities Around Changing Job Conditions When Remote/Hybrid or Returning to Working at Work	2
A Critical Industrial Relations Approach to Understanding Contemporary Worker Uprising	2
The Right Amount of Sex: Digital Labor in the Grey Zone of Platform Governance	2
Ravenelle, A. J. Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times RavenelleA. J. (2023). Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Wo	2
Alvarez, W. (2022). Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor	2
The Gender Wage Gap, Between-Firm Inequality, and Devaluation: Testing a New Hypothesis in the Service Sector	2
Women in the New Labor Activism: Gender Trends in Attitudes Toward Unions	2