Work Employment and Society

Article	Citations
‘My Life Is More Valuable Than This’: Understanding Risk among On-Demand Food Couriers in Edinburgh	87
Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention	47
At Least I’m My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work	39
Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam	31
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	29
The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service	29
‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives	27
The Worker Capabilities Approach: Insights from Worker Mobilizations in Italian Logistics and Food Delivery	27
Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics	25
Data Scientists’ Identity Work: Omnivorous Symbolic Boundaries in Skills Acquisition	25
Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom	24
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work	23
Career Advancement for Women in the British Hospitality Industry: The Enabling Factors	23
With a Little Help from My Friends: Social-Network Job Search and Overqualification among Recent Intra-EU Migrants Moving from East to West	23
Precarity as a Biographical Problem? Young Workers Living with Precarity in Germany and Poland	23
Economic Inactivity, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and Scarring: The Importance of NEET as a Marker of Long-Term Disadvantage	23
‘It’s Like a War Zone’: Jay’s Liminal Experience of Normal and Extreme Work in a UK Supermarket during the COVID-19 Pandemic	22
The Making of Cheap Labour across Production and Reproduction: Control and Resistance in the Senegalese Horticultural Value Chain	22
Disability and Academic Careers: Using the Social Relational Model to Reveal the Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Creating Disability	22
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	21
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs	20
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	19
‘Good’ Bad Jobs? The Evolution of Migrant Low-Wage Employment in Germany (1985–2015)	19
Upskilling, Deskilling or Polarisation? Evidence on Change in Skills in Europe	19
Conceptualising ‘Meta-Work’ in the Context of Continuous, Global Mobility: The Case of Digital Nomadism	19

Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms	17
‘Working to Live, Not Living to Work’: Low-Paid Multiple Employment and Work–Life Articulation	17
Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’	17
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines	16
Working from Home in Urban China during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assemblages of Work-Family Interference	16
The Relative Quality of Sex Work	16
Profit over People? Evaluating Morality on the Front Line during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Front-Line Service Manager’s Confession and Regrets	15
When Can a Disability Quota System Empower Disabled Individuals in the Workplace? The Case of France	15
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia	15
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work	14
Doing and Negotiating Transgender on the Front Line: Customer Abuse, Transphobia and Stigma in the Food Retail Sector	14
Gender Wage Gap and the Involvement of Partners in Household Work	14
Vice-Chancellor Pay and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Vice-Chancellor Characteristics	13
Reproducing Global Inequalities in the Online Labour Market: Valuing Capital in the Design Field	13
Masters of None? How Cultural Workers Use Reframing to Achieve Legitimacy in Portfolio Careers	13
When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry	12
Relationship-Based Care Work, Austerity and Aged Care	12
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	12
Configurations of Boundary Management Practices among Knowledge Workers	11
Negotiating Gendered Ageing: Intersectional Reflexivity and Experiences of Incongruity of Self-Employed Older Women	11
Job Satisfaction and Sexual Orientation in Britain	11
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency	11
Youth, Work and ‘Career’ as a Way of Talking about the Self	11
Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan	11
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies	11
Gender Role Attitudes and Labour Market Behaviours: Do Attitudes Contribute to Gender Differences in Employment in Germany?	10
A Heterodox Re-Reading of Creative Work: The Diverse Economies of Danish Visual Artists	10
‘They’ve Been with Me the Whole Journey’: Temporality, Emotional Labour and Hairdressing Work	10
Moral Dilemma of Striking: A Medical Worker’s Response to Job Duty, Public Health Protection and the Politicization of Strikes	10
Killing Them ‘Softly’ (!): Exploring Work Experiences in Care-Based Animal Dirty Work	10
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study	10
Fathers’ Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements: Evidence from the UK	10
Consuming Worker Exploitation? Accounts and Justifications for Consumer (In)action to Modern Slavery	10
Bringing Women on Board? Family Policies, Quotas and Gender Diversity in Top Jobs	9
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms	9
Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations	9
The Partner Pay Gap: Associations between Spouses’ Relative Earnings and Life Satisfaction among Couples in the UK	9
Why Do Humans Remain Central to the Knowledge Work in the Age of Robots? Marx’sFragment on Machinesand Beyond	9
Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services	9
McStrike! Framing, (Political) Opportunity and the Development of a Collective Identity: McDonald’s and the UK Fast-Food Rights Campaign	9
Working Hard for the Ones You Love and Care for Under Covid-19 Physical Distancing	8
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	8
Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State	8
Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China	8
Emotional Labour and the Autonomy of Dependent Self-Employed Workers: The Limitations of Digital Managerial Control in the Home Credit Sector	8
Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control	8
Trouble in Direct Payment Personal Assistance Relationships	8
The ‘Grey Zone’ at the Interface of Work and Home: Theorizing Adaptations Required by Precarious Work	8
The Employment Trajectories of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence	8
The Impact of Unemployment and Non-Standard Forms of Employment on the Housing Autonomy of Young Adults	8

‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment	8
Precarious Education-to-Work Transitions: Entering Welfare Professions under a Workfarist Regime	7
Training Regimes and Diversity: Experiences of Young Foreign Employees in Japanese Headquarters	7
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space	7
Labour Controls, Unfreedom and Perpetuation of Slavery on a Tea Plantation	7
‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level	7
Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain	7
‘You Can’t Eat Soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South	7
Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography	7
Refugee Subentrepreneurship: The Emergence of a Liquid Cage	7
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	7
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	6
No Voice, No Choice: Assessing Danish Active Labour Market Policies Using Sen’s Capability Approach	6
‘It’s My Passion and Not Really Like Work’: Balancing Precarity with the Work–Life of a Volunteer Team Leader in the Conservation Sector	6
Gender Equalities: What Lies Ahead	6
Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany	6
Consent and Contestation: How Platform Workers Reckon with the Risks of Gig Labor	6
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
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil	6
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19	6
Staying Down with the Joneses: Differences in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment across Neighbourhoods	6
Gender Differences in the Social Consequences of Unemployment: How Job Loss Affects the Risk of Becoming Socially Isolated	6
Migrants at Work: Perspectives, Perceptions and New Connections	6
How Occupational Pensions Shape Extended Working Lives: Gender, Class and Chance after the Norwegian Pension Reform	6
‘Working While Feeling Awful Is Normal’: One Roma’s Experience of Presenteeism	6
University or Degree Apprenticeship? Stratification and Uncertainty in Routes to the Solicitors’ Profession	6
Thursday Night and a Sing-along ‘Sung Alone’: The Experiences of a Self-employed Performer During the Pandemic	5
Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers’ Temporary Work	5
Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: Evidence for European Employees	5
‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless	5
Resisting Patriarchal Cultures: The Case of Female Spanish Home-Based Teleworkers	5
Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia	5
From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work	5
Self-Employed Women in Europe: Lack of Opportunity or Forced by Necessity?	5
Managing Health and Well-Being in SMEs through an Adviceline: A Typology of Managerial Behaviours	5
Reflexive Self-Identity and Work: Working Women, Biographical Disruption and Agency	5
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany	5
On the Biopsychosocial Costs of Alienated Labor	5
Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations	4
‘The Biggest Problem We Are Facing Is the Running Away Problem’: Recruitment and the Paradox of Facilitating the Mobility of Immobile Workers	4
Migrant Entrepreneurship Enablers: From Chance Encounters to Community Development	4
Conceptualising ‘Within-Group Stigmatisation’ among High-Status Workers	4
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK	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
‘We Don’t Have the Same Opportunities as Others’: Shining Bourdieu’s Lens on UK Roma Migrants’ Precarious (Workers’) Habitus	4
The ‘Gender Face’ of Job Insecurity in France: An Individual- and Organizational-Level Analysis	4
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector	4
Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan	4
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity	4
The Impact of Remote Work on Managerial Compliance: Changes in the Control Regime over Line Managers	4
Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time	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
Conceptualizing Responsible Return to Work: Corporate Social Responsibility in Relation to Employee Return to Work after Cancer	4
Women Managers’ Impact on Use of Family-friendly Measures among Their Subordinates in Japanese Firms	4
The Evolution of Professionalism as a Mode of Regulation: Evidence from the United States	4
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency	4
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden	4
Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work	4
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba	4
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective	3
Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media	3
Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry	3
Disabled People Working in the Disability Sector: Occupational Segregation or Personal Fulfilment?	3
Managerial Technique and Worker Subjectivity in Dialogue: Understanding Overwork in China’s Internet Industry	3
Participation in Job-Related Training: Is There a Parenthood Training Penalty?	3
Reproductive Work in the Global South: Lived Experiences and Social Relations of Commercial Surrogacy in India	3
Labour Market Segmentation within Ethnic Economies: The Ethnic Penalty for Invisible Kurdish Migrants in the United Kingdom	3
Predicting Child-Labour Risks by Norms in India	3
Superfluous Jobs in Extractive Industries: The Usefulness/Uselessness of Job Creation after Dispossession	3
Why Queer Workers Make Good Organisers	3
Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour	3
Manufacturing Managerial Compliance: How Firms Align Managers with Corporate Interest	3
Navigating the Perilous Waters of Partisan Scholarship: Participatory Action Research (PAR) with the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF)	3
Developing or Degrading Young Workers? How Business Strategy and the Labour Process Shape Job Quality across Different Industrial Sectors in England	3
Catch-22: Token Women Trying to Reconcile Impossible Contradictions between Organisational and Societal Expectations	3
‘This Is the End’? An Ethnographic Study of Management Control and a New Management Initiative	3
A Bridge over Troubled Borders: Social Class and the Interplay between Work and Life	3
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain	3

Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making	3
Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector	3
Union Equality Structures and the Challenge of Democratic Legitimacy: The Case of the Fire Brigades Union	3
Gender Composition and the Symbolic Value of Occupations: New Evidence of a U-shaped Relationship between Gender and Occupational Prestige Based on German Microdata	3
Is Rising Self-Employment Associated with Material Deprivation in the UK?	3
Who Did You Meet at the Venice Biennale? Education-to-Work Transition Enhancers for Aspiring Arts Professionals in Australia	3
Wage Differences between Polish and Romanian Intra-EU Migrants in a Flexi-Secure Labour Market: An Over-Time Perspective	3
Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security	3
‘Basically He’s a Pet, Not a Working Dog’: Theorising What Therapy Dogs Do in the Workplace	3
Structural Change Shapes Career Mobility Opportunities: An Analysis of Cohorts, Gender and Parental Class	2
Between Settlement and Mobilization: Political Logics of Intra-Organizational Union Communication on Social Media	2
Women’s Attrition from Male-Dominated Workplaces in Norway: The Importance of Numerical Minority Status, Motherhood and Class	2
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation	2
Families under Pressure: The Costs of Vocational Calling, and What Can Be Done about Them	2
Divide and Conquer: Social Assistance Clients’ Competing Frames of Social Justice	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
Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Work, Employment and Society: Extending the Debate on Organisational Involvement in/Responsibilities around Fertility and Reproduction	2
Absence from Work after the Birth of the First Child and Mothers’ Retirement Incomes: A Comparative Analysis of 10 European Countries	2
The Association between Family Care and Paid Work among Women in Germany: Does the Household Economic Context Matter?	2
Deservingness, Conditionality and Public Perceptions of Work Disability: The Influence of Economic Inequality	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
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working	2
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue	2
Book Review: Jean-Pierre Durand, Creating the New Worker: Work, Consumption and Subordination	2
Technological Change, Tasks and Class Inequality in Europe	2
The Scarring Effect of First Job Precarity: New Evidence from a Panel Study in Hong Kong	2
Matching Candidates to Culture: How Assessments of Organisational Fit Shape the Hiring Process	2
Gender Attitudes and Occupational Aspirations in Germany: Are Young Men Prepared for the Jobs of the Future?	2
Gender in the Flesh: Allostatic Load as the Embodiment of Stressful, Gendered Work in Canadian Police Communicators	2
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions	2
Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success	2
Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective: How, Where and Why Do Platform Workers Protest?	2
Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings	2
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany	2
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions	2
Father Parental Leave Use in Spain: The Role of the Female Partner Labour Situation	2
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers	2
It’s Not Just Sex: Relational Dynamics between Street-Based Sex Workers and Their Regular Customers	2