Work Employment and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Work Employment and Society 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education83
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts68
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue62
Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality61
Book Review: Alan Middleton, The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms MiddletonAlanThe Informal Sector in Ecua58
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia44
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers39
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States32
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis31
Book Review: Valeria Pulignano and Markieta Domecka The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the Study of Unpaid Labour Can Help Address Inequality in Precarious Work 25
Lay Moralities of Young Workers and the Moral Economy of Service Labour25
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Pres25
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) Gre24
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–201924
Disaggregating Gender Income Disparities in STEM: Cohort and Family Factors in a Nordic Welfare State24
Organising Beyond the Employment Relationship: Scaling Up and Institutional Power in Own-Account Unions22
Ambivalent Inclusion: Older Workers, Diversity Agendas and the Persistence of the Ideal Worker22
Coercion and Consent under Techno-Economic Despotism: Workers’ Alienation and ‘Liberation’ in the Amazon Warehouse22
Thank You to Referees21
Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France20
Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work19
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality18
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model18
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings18
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK18
Change and Resistance in the Royal Mail: Dispatches from the 2022/2023 Postal Workers’ Strike17
‘Get on Board or Get Off’: Nosediving Job Quality for Mental Health Providers in the Age of Platform Work17
Solidarity and Contentiousness in Migrant Worker Mobilisation: Syndicalist Unionisation in Sweden16
Gaming Hope: Professional Women’s Football as Precarious Work16
Book Review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano TreréAlgo16
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working16
Bridge-building Emotional Labour: The Emotional Labour of Boundary Spanners Who Match Disadvantaged Claimants with Employers15
Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation15
Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution 15
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour14
Book review: Franz Nicolay, Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music NicolayFranzBand People: Life and Work in Popular MusicAustin, TX: University of 13
Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace13
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers12
Book review: Sylvie Célérier and Alberto Riesco-Sanz, Workers Without Companies: Towards a New Way of Working CélérierSylvieRiesco-SanzAlbertoWorkers Wit12
Contesting Labour Violations in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields12
Organizational Intersectionality: Do Gender and Migration Status Inequalities Reinforce or Offset Each Other in French Workplaces?11
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services11
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany11
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots10
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace10
Developing a Standard Measure of Job Quality10
Who You Know or What You Know? Job Search and Matching in the Presence of Network-Based Recruitment10
The Intensification–Extensification Dynamic: Hybrid Work and Digital Connectivity10
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA9
Fathers Combining Work and Care: Flexible Work Arrangements and Paternal Involvement Across Financial Situations9
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work9
‘Straight from a Night Shift to the Infusions’: Crip Temporalities at Work9
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic8
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability8
Special NEETs: Institutional Influences on School-to-Work Transitions of Young People with Disabilities in Europe8
Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow8
Nihan Akyelken, Women, Work and Mobilities: The Case of Urban and Regional Contexts in Turkey and Sonia Bertolini, Valentina Goglio and Dirk Hofäcker, 8
The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France8
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform inNeoliberal Chile Pérez-AhumadaPabloBu8
To the Fifties and Back Again? A Comparative Analysis of Changes in Breadwinning Arrangements during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Four European Countries8
Glocalising Union Organising: How Access to Power Resources Enables and Constrains Global Union Federation Campaigns in the Global South8
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics’ Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity7
Bridging the Gaps in Work Quality Research: A Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Review7
Framing Unions and Nurses7
What Does it Mean to be Passionate about Your Job? Three Meanings of ‘Collectively Oriented Passion’ in UK Pubs7
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment7
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions7
Is Workplace Flexibility Penalised? The Gendered Consequences of Working from Home for the Wages of Parents and Childless Employees in the UK7
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector7
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting7
Book Review: Denys Gorbach, The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City GorbachDeny6
The Struggle for Meaning in Contemporary Care Work6
Book Review: Eva Fodor, The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary6
The Role of Boundary-Spanners in the Control of a Chinese Garment Factory in Myanmar6
Robotisation and Workforce Dynamics: Analysing Employment and Wage Effects within Manufacturing Establishments6
‘Lived Capitalisation’: How Speculative Finance Shapes the Social and Financial Lives of ‘Gig’ Workers in Bengaluru, India6
Book Review: Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó and Vincenzo Maccarrone, Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financi6
Inter-Union Solidarity and Strategic Group Identity: Insights from Works Councils in the French Car Industry5
Managerial Technique and Worker Subjectivity in Dialogue: Understanding Overwork in China’s Internet Industry5
Queer Bonds at Work: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Workplace Relations Among Sexual Minority Employees in Hong Kong5
Crossers in a Segmented Labour Market: Occupational Advancement and Wage Changes from Semi-Skilled and Unskilled Jobs5
‘We All Stand Together’ (Or Do We?): Moral Underpinnings of the Emergence and Repression of Solidarity at Work5
The Labour Process under Worker Control: Organisational Tensions in Worker Cooperatives5
Climate Change Vulnerability and the Politics of Production on Swiss Construction Sites4
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation4
(Doing) Time Is Money: Confinement, Prison Work and the Reproduction of Carceral Capitalism4
Book Review: Blandine Emilien, Repair EmilienBlandineRepairLondon: Austin Macauley Publishers, 2025, £6.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9781035875726), 60 pp.4
Employment Discrimination against Indigenous People with Tribal Marks in Nigeria: The Painful Face of Stigma4
Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service4
Why Do So Many People Not Vote? Correlates of Participation in Trade Union Strike Ballots4
Women and the Standard Workweek: Developing a Typology of Work Schedules in the UK4
Reimagining the Egalitarian Society: A Community-wide Approach to Transcending the Gender Division of Paid and Unpaid Labour4
Computer Use and Digital Frustration in German Workplaces: Is There a Gendered Part-Time Gap?4
Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement4
‘I am a Scaffolder’: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in ‘Dirty Work’3
Participation in Job-Related Training: Is There a Parenthood Training Penalty?3
Constructing a Skilled Yet Flexible Migrant Workforce: State-driven Skilled Migration of IT Workers from South Korea to Japan3
Live Performers’ Experiences of Precarity and Recognition during COVID-19 and Beyond3
‘Don’t Give Up, Some People Fight This Battle for Decades’: Illusion of Stability and Enforcement of Precarity in State School Teaching3
Book Review: Peter Ackers, Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg AckersPeterTrade Unions and 3
Working Through Alienation? The Ambivalent Promise of Craft3
Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan3
Exploring Informal Work: Gaining Legitimation through Nudging3
Theo Nichols: A Personal Tribute3
The Role of Settlement Intentions (Un-)Certainty in the Labour Market Integration of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany3
Autonomy’s Mirage: How Fauxtonomy Fuels Workers’ Frustration in the Gig Economy3
Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan3
Thank You to Referees3
Managing Stigma and Perpetuating Ableism: How Frontline Workers Navigate Disclosure When Encouraging Employers to Hire Disabled People3
Will I Have to Be Reborn? Collective Sensemaking of Stigma among White-Collar Inmates3
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies3
The Dynamics of Control of Migrant Agency Workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the Enterprising-Self3
Supersizing the Impact of Unions in Downsizing Processes: A Configurational Approach Based on 19 Cases in France3
Hiring Temps but Losing Perms? Temporary Worker Inflows and Voluntary Turnover of Permanent Employees2
Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors’ Careers, 1970 to 20162
Avoiding, Resisting and Enduring: A New Typology of Worker Responses to Workplace Violence2
Old Habits Die Hard? The Role of Trade Union Identity and Framing Processes in Shaping Strategy2
‘The Biggest Problem We Are Facing Is the Running Away Problem’: Recruitment and the Paradox of Facilitating the Mobility of Immobile Workers2
The Scarring Effect of First Job Precarity: New Evidence from a Panel Study in Hong Kong2
How Work Hour Variability Matters for Work-to-Family Conflict2
Alternative Organisations and (In)equality: Institutional Voids and Subjectivities in a Refugee Women’s Cooperative2
Book review: Tim Butcher, Creative Work Beyond Precarity: Learning to Work Together ButcherTimCreative Work Beyond Precarity: Learning to Work TogetherRo2
Book Review: William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams (eds), Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies2
Young is Fun: Examining the Inter-Relations of Play and Age at Work2
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms2
Holiworking: Perspectives on New Ways of Integrating Holiday and Work2
Book review: Jean-Philippe Deranty, The Case for Work DerantyJean-PhilippeThe Case for WorkOxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, £119.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9782
Book Review: Raven Bowen, Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle2
The Discursive Power of Trade Union Leadership: Framing Identity Fields for Public Persuasion2
‘Divergent Work Ageing’ and Older Migrants’ (Un)extended Working Lives2
Managing Mobility: Platform Work Models, Organizational Identification, and Food Delivery Couriers' Exit Intentions2
Book Review: Troy Heffernan, Academy of the Oppressed: Paulo Freire and How Academics Lost Control of the University HeffernanTroyAcademy of the Oppresse2
Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality1
Book Review: Panos Theodoropoulos, The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity TheodoropoulosPanosThe Precarious Migrant Worker: The So1
Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time1
Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work1
Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–20151
Book Review: Lars Meier, Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class1
Getting In but Not Getting On: Inequality Regimes, Usurpation and Resistance in the Medical Profession1
Neo-craft Work as Meaningful Work: Longing for Resonance1
Thank You to Referees 2023-241
‘A Good Death’: One Hospice Chaplain’s Approach to End-of-Life Care1
Making Sense of Exploitation: Teenage Workers’ Experiences of Unpaid Labour in Low-Wage Service Jobs1
‘Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life’: Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs1
Book Review: Francesca Coin, The Great Resignation: The New Refusal of Work CoinFrancescaThe Great Resignation: The New Refusal of WorkLondon: Bloomsbury1
Bounded Well-Being: Designing Technologies for Workers’ Well-Being in Corporate Programmes1
Agency through Informality: How Bangladeshi Restaurant Owners Navigate Structural Constraints in Times of Crisis1
The Makeshift Careers of Women in Malawi: Neither Traditional Nor Flexible1
‘It’s One Rule for Them and One for Us’: Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour1
Book Reviews: Virginia Doellgast, Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries1
Producing ‘The Right Candidate’: The Social Embeddedness of Labour Market Intermediaries for Migrant Workers in the Belgian Construction Sector1
Experiencing Deportation as Dirty Work? The Case of Dutch Escort Officers1
Repressive Equality Regimes: How Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Initiatives Constrain Equality and Conceal Politics at Work1
Algorithmically Managing Risk and the Risk of Managing Algorithms in Australian Homecare: A Managerial Perspective1
Book Review: Peter Cappelli, Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting is Bad for Business and Employees CappelliPete1
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines1
Thank You to Referees1
“We Have to Do Something”: The Lived Reality of Investigating Online Child Sexual Abuse in Sweden1
‘Our Backs Are Against the Wall’: The Story of a Bangladeshi Woman Garment Worker in the COVID-19 ‘New Normal’1
The Activating Welfare State and Precarisation: a Temporal Analysis of the Perceived Unemployment Risk in Switzerland, 1999–20191
Fixed-term Employment and Subjective Well-being: A Comparison of Natives, Migrants and Refugees1
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