Work Employment and Society

Article	Citations
‘My Life Is More Valuable Than This’: Understanding Risk among On-Demand Food Couriers in Edinburgh	94
Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention	57
At Least I’m My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work	47
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	34
The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service	33
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work	32
The Worker Capabilities Approach: Insights from Worker Mobilizations in Italian Logistics and Food Delivery	28
Economic Inactivity, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and Scarring: The Importance of NEET as a Marker of Long-Term Disadvantage	27
Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics	26
Data Scientists’ Identity Work: Omnivorous Symbolic Boundaries in Skills Acquisition	26
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	24
‘It’s Like a War Zone’: Jay’s Liminal Experience of Normal and Extreme Work in a UK Supermarket during the COVID-19 Pandemic	24
Career Advancement for Women in the British Hospitality Industry: The Enabling Factors	24
Disability and Academic Careers: Using the Social Relational Model to Reveal the Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Creating Disability	24
The Making of Cheap Labour across Production and Reproduction: Control and Resistance in the Senegalese Horticultural Value Chain	23
Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms	23
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs	23
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	22
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines	20
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms	20
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work	19
Conceptualising ‘Meta-Work’ in the Context of Continuous, Global Mobility: The Case of Digital Nomadism	19
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia	18
Working from Home in Urban China during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assemblages of Work-Family Interference	17
Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’	17

Profit over People? Evaluating Morality on the Front Line during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Front-Line Service Manager’s Confession and Regrets	15
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	15
When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry	15
When Can a Disability Quota System Empower Disabled Individuals in the Workplace? The Case of France	15
Doing and Negotiating Transgender on the Front Line: Customer Abuse, Transphobia and Stigma in the Food Retail Sector	15
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies	15
Masters of None? How Cultural Workers Use Reframing to Achieve Legitimacy in Portfolio Careers	14
Vice-Chancellor Pay and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Vice-Chancellor Characteristics	13
Killing Them ‘Softly’ (!): Exploring Work Experiences in Care-Based Animal Dirty Work	13
Youth, Work and ‘Career’ as a Way of Talking about the Self	12
Job Satisfaction and Sexual Orientation in Britain	12
Relationship-Based Care Work, Austerity and Aged Care	12
A Heterodox Re-Reading of Creative Work: The Diverse Economies of Danish Visual Artists	12
Consent and Contestation: How Platform Workers Reckon with the Risks of Gig Labor	12
Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan	12
‘They’ve Been with Me the Whole Journey’: Temporality, Emotional Labour and Hairdressing Work	12
Configurations of Boundary Management Practices among Knowledge Workers	11
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency	11
Staying Down with the Joneses: Differences in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment across Neighbourhoods	11
Negotiating Gendered Ageing: Intersectional Reflexivity and Experiences of Incongruity of Self-Employed Older Women	11
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space	11
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study	11
McStrike! Framing, (Political) Opportunity and the Development of a Collective Identity: McDonald’s and the UK Fast-Food Rights Campaign	11
Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State	11
Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China	11
Bringing Women on Board? Family Policies, Quotas and Gender Diversity in Top Jobs	10
Fathers’ Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements: Evidence from the UK	10
Gender Role Attitudes and Labour Market Behaviours: Do Attitudes Contribute to Gender Differences in Employment in Germany?	10
Moral Dilemma of Striking: A Medical Worker’s Response to Job Duty, Public Health Protection and the Politicization of Strikes	10
Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services	10
Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations	9
Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–2015	9
The ‘Grey Zone’ at the Interface of Work and Home: Theorizing Adaptations Required by Precarious Work	9
Working Hard for the Ones You Love and Care for Under Covid-19 Physical Distancing	9
Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control	9
Why Do Humans Remain Central to the Knowledge Work in the Age of Robots? Marx’s Fragment on Machines and Beyond	9
Refugee Subentrepreneurship: The Emergence of a Liquid Cage	9
Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography	8
‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level	8
As the Two-Child Policy Beckons: Work–Family Conflicts, Gender Strategies and Self-Worth among Women from the First One-Child Generation in Contemporary China	8
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation	8
Emotional Labour and the Autonomy of Dependent Self-Employed Workers: The Limitations of Digital Managerial Control in the Home Credit Sector	8
Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain	8
Trouble in Direct Payment Personal Assistance Relationships	8
The Employment Trajectories of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence	8
Gender Equalities: What Lies Ahead	8
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment	8
Migrant Entrepreneurship Enablers: From Chance Encounters to Community Development	7
Training Regimes and Diversity: Experiences of Young Foreign Employees in Japanese Headquarters	7
Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany	7

Gender Differences in the Social Consequences of Unemployment: How Job Loss Affects the Risk of Becoming Socially Isolated	7
Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia	7
How Occupational Pensions Shape Extended Working Lives: Gender, Class and Chance after the Norwegian Pension Reform	7
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	7
‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless	7
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK	7
‘You Can’t Eat Soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South	7
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19	7
Labour Controls, Unfreedom and Perpetuation of Slavery on a Tea Plantation	7
Public Service, Private Delivery: Service Workers and the Negotiation of Blurred Boundaries in a Neoliberal State	6
Workplace Bullying and Intensification of Labour Controls in the Clothing Supply Chain: Post-Rana Plaza Disaster	6
‘Working While Feeling Awful Is Normal’: One Roma’s Experience of Presenteeism	6
Managing Health and Well-Being in SMEs through an Adviceline: A Typology of Managerial Behaviours	6
Caring in the Gig Economy: A Relational Perspective of Decent Work	6
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil	6
University or Degree Apprenticeship? Stratification and Uncertainty in Routes to the Solicitors’ Profession	6
Self-Employed Women in Europe: Lack of Opportunity or Forced by Necessity?	6
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity	6
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany	6
Thursday Night and a Sing-along ‘Sung Alone’: The Experiences of a Self-employed Performer During the Pandemic	5
From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work	5
Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media	5
Women Managers’ Impact on Use of Family-friendly Measures among Their Subordinates in Japanese Firms	5
Catch-22: Token Women Trying to Reconcile Impossible Contradictions between Organisational and Societal Expectations	5
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden	5
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective	5
Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: Evidence for European Employees	5
Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations	5
Resisting Patriarchal Cultures: The Case of Female Spanish Home-Based Teleworkers	5
Participation in Job-Related Training: Is There a Parenthood Training Penalty?	5
Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers’ Temporary Work	5
Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector	5
Conceptualising Work as a ‘Safe Space’ for Negotiating LGBT Identities: Navigating Careers in the Construction Sector	5
The ‘Gender Face’ of Job Insecurity in France: An Individual- and Organizational-Level Analysis	5
On the Biopsychosocial Costs of Alienated Labor	5
Conceptualizing Responsible Return to Work: Corporate Social Responsibility in Relation to Employee Return to Work after Cancer	4
‘The Biggest Problem We Are Facing Is the Running Away Problem’: Recruitment and the Paradox of Facilitating the Mobility of Immobile Workers	4
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector	4
‘This Is the End’? An Ethnographic Study of Management Control and a New Management Initiative	4
Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan	4
A Bridge over Troubled Borders: Social Class and the Interplay between Work and Life	4
Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work	4
‘Basically He’s a Pet, Not a Working Dog’: Theorising What Therapy Dogs Do in the Workplace	4
Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time	4
‘We Don’t Have the Same Opportunities as Others’: Shining Bourdieu’s Lens on UK Roma Migrants’ Precarious (Workers’) Habitus	4
Employer Participation in Active Labour Market Policies in the United Kingdom and Denmark: The Effect of Employer Associations as Social Networks and the Mediating Role of Collective Voice	4
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working	4
Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective: How, Where and Why Do Platform Workers Protest?	4
Predicting Child-Labour Risks by Norms in India	4
Conceptualising ‘Within-Group Stigmatisation’ among High-Status Workers	4
The Impact of Remote Work on Managerial Compliance: Changes in the Control Regime over Line Managers	4
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba	4
Manufacturing Managerial Compliance: How Firms Align Managers with Corporate Interest	4
Gender Composition and the Symbolic Value of Occupations: New Evidence of a U-shaped Relationship between Gender and Occupational Prestige Based on German Microdata	4
Developing or Degrading Young Workers? How Business Strategy and the Labour Process Shape Job Quality across Different Industrial Sectors in England	4
Wage Differences between Polish and Romanian Intra-EU Migrants in a Flexi-Secure Labour Market: An Over-Time Perspective	4
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency	4
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions	4
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition	4
Temporary Contracts, Employment Trajectories and Dualisation: A Comparison of Norway and Sweden	4
Father Parental Leave Use in Spain: The Role of the Female Partner Labour Situation	3
Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry	3
Navigating the Perilous Waters of Partisan Scholarship: Participatory Action Research (PAR) with the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF)	3
The Evolution of Professionalism as a Mode of Regulation: Evidence from the United States	3
Who Did You Meet at the Venice Biennale? Education-to-Work Transition Enhancers for Aspiring Arts Professionals in Australia	3
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions	3
Technological Change, Tasks and Class Inequality in Europe	3
Superfluous Jobs in Extractive Industries: The Usefulness/Uselessness of Job Creation after Dispossession	3
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany	3
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers	3
Managerial Technique and Worker Subjectivity in Dialogue: Understanding Overwork in China’s Internet Industry	3
Structural Change Shapes Career Mobility Opportunities: An Analysis of Cohorts, Gender and Parental Class	3
Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings	3
Reproductive Work in the Global South: Lived Experiences and Social Relations of Commercial Surrogacy in India	3
It’s Not Just Sex: Relational Dynamics between Street-Based Sex Workers and Their Regular Customers	3
The Association between Family Care and Paid Work among Women in Germany: Does the Household Economic Context Matter?	3
Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making	3
Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour	3
Union Equality Structures and the Challenge of Democratic Legitimacy: The Case of the Fire Brigades Union	3
Disabled People Working in the Disability Sector: Occupational Segregation or Personal Fulfilment?	3

Women’s Attrition from Male-Dominated Workplaces in Norway: The Importance of Numerical Minority Status, Motherhood and Class	3
Is Rising Self-Employment Associated with Material Deprivation in the UK?	3
Labour Market Segmentation within Ethnic Economies: The Ethnic Penalty for Invisible Kurdish Migrants in the United Kingdom	3
Professionalization and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Comparative Study on German and US Job Requirements in CSR	3
Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security	3
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain	3
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States	3
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue	2
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis	2
Inclusion is in the Eye of the Beholder: A Relational Analysis of the Role of Gendered Moral Rationalities in Saudi Arabia	2
Matching Candidates to Culture: How Assessments of Organisational Fit Shape the Hiring Process	2
Gender in the Flesh: Allostatic Load as the Embodiment of Stressful, Gendered Work in Canadian Police Communicators	2
Framing Unions and Nurses	2
Gender Attitudes and Occupational Aspirations in Germany: Are Young Men Prepared for the Jobs of the Future?	2
Union Coalitions and Strategic Framing: The Case of the Agricultural Advisory Panel for Wales	2
Temporary Migrants as Dehumanised ‘Other’ in the Time of COVID-19: We’re All in This Together?	2
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality	2
Families under Pressure: The Costs of Vocational Calling, and What Can Be Done about Them	2
Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success	2
The Scarring Effect of First Job Precarity: New Evidence from a Panel Study in Hong Kong	2
Deservingness, Conditionality and Public Perceptions of Work Disability: The Influence of Economic Inequality	2
Work Therapy: Extractive Labour as Therapeutic Intervention	2
Doing Double Time: Women, Incarceration and Employment Discrimination	2
How Do Young Workers Perceive Job Insecurity? Legitimising Frames for Precarious Work in England and Germany	2
Gurkha Warriors as Entrepreneurs in Britain: A Social Anchoring Lens on Martial Heritage and Migrant Enterprises	2
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace	2
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots	2
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Work, Employment and Society: Extending the Debate on Organisational Involvement in/Responsibilities around Fertility and Reproduction	2
Whistleblowing as a Career Crisis: Recovering from Retaliatory Job Loss through a Process of Bifurcation	2
Does Overwork Attenuate the Motherhood Earnings Penalty among Full-Time Workers?	2
Bounded Well-Being: Designing Technologies for Workers’ Well-Being in Corporate Programmes	2
Otherness in the Workplace among Highly Skilled Labour Migrants: Swedes in Germany and the UK	2
Work Identity Pause and Reactivation: A Study of Cross-Domain Identity Transitions of Trailing Wives in Dubai	2
Between Settlement and Mobilization: Political Logics of Intra-Organizational Union Communication on Social Media	2
Divide and Conquer: Social Assistance Clients’ Competing Frames of Social Justice	2