Work Employment and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Work Employment and Society 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots82
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba40
Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work37
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany34
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue32
‘You Can’t Eat Soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South32
Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany31
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace30
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts29
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers28
Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media28
Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector26
Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success26
Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: Evidence for European Employees25
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia25
Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China21
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis21
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-1919
Embedded Strangers in One’s Own Job? Freelance Interpreters’ Invisible Work: A Practice Theory Approach17
Trans People in the Workplace: Possibilities for Subverting Heteronormativity15
Book Review: Stephen Edgell and Edward Granter, The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work (Third Edition)14
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs14
Conceptualising Work as a ‘Safe Space’ for Negotiating LGBT Identities: Navigating Careers in the Construction Sector14
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors14
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services14
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines13
From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada)13
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States12
Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement12
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education11
Radical Change and Institutional Resilience: The Case of Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe11
Trade Union Solidarity in Crisis: The Generative Tensions of Worker Solidarities in Argentina11
Why Do So Many People Not Vote? Correlates of Participation in Trade Union Strike Ballots11
Book Review: Calla Hummel, Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State11
Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour11
Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time10
Book Review: Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and Sin Yi Cheung The Death of Human Capital? Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption10
Retirement in Western Germany – How Workplace Tasks Influence Its Timing10
Temporary Contracts, Employment Trajectories and Dualisation: A Comparison of Norway and Sweden10
Book Review: Paul David Harpur, Ableism at Work: Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment10
Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat10
Boards for Diversity? A Critical Economic Sociology of British South Asian Senior Leaders’ Experiences of the Executive Level of Football10
Organized Crime and Employment Relations: A Personal Story of ‘Ndrangheta Control on Employment Relations Management Practices in Southern Italy9
Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time9
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation9
Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets9
The Socio-Materiality of Dirty Work: A Critical Realist Perspective9
‘Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life’: Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs9
‘Difficult to Divulge’: The Impact of Organisational Silence around the Menopause9
Staying Down with the Joneses: Differences in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment across Neighbourhoods9
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions8
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work8
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment8
Trouble in Direct Payment Personal Assistance Relationships8
Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work8
Extreme Lockdowns and the Gendered Informalization of Employment: Evidence from the Philippines8
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space8
Wage Effects of Couples’ Divisions of Labour across the UK Wage Distribution8
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–20198
‘Dances with Daffodils’: Life as a Flower-picker in Southwest England8
‘Basically He’s a Pet, Not a Working Dog’: Theorising What Therapy Dogs Do in the Workplace7
Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service7
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA7
Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms7
Between Settlement and Mobilization: Political Logics of Intra-Organizational Union Communication on Social Media7
Book Review: Matt Vidal, Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management7
Thank You to Referees7
As the Two-Child Policy Beckons: Work–Family Conflicts, Gender Strategies and Self-Worth among Women from the First One-Child Generation in Contemporary China7
Book Review: Rachael A Woldoff and Robert C Litchfield, Digital Nomads: In Search of Meaningful Work in the New Economy6
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization6
When Values and Ethics of Care Conflict: A Lived Experience in the Roman Catholic Church6
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain6
From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work6
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition6
Book Review: Rebecca WB Lund and Ann Christin E Nilsen (eds), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region6
Book Review: David Etherington, Austerity, Welfare and Work: Exploring Politics, Geographies and Inequalities6
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China6
Organising Against Precarity: The Life of a South African Labour Broker Worker6
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia6
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany6
Influences on Employment Transitions around the Birth of the First Child: The Experience of Italian Mothers6
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil6
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective6
Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making6
Temporary Migrants as Dehumanised ‘Other’ in the Time of COVID-19: We’re All in This Together?5
Informal Cultures of Resistance and Worker Mobilization: The Case of Migrant Workers in the Italian Logistics Sector5
Economic Inactivity, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and Scarring: The Importance of NEET as a Marker of Long-Term Disadvantage5
‘Working While Feeling Awful Is Normal’: One Roma’s Experience of Presenteeism5
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France5
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability5
The Impact of Remote Work on Managerial Compliance: Changes in the Control Regime over Line Managers5
Experiencing Deportation as Dirty Work? The Case of Dutch Escort Officers5
Why Female Employees Do Not Earn More under a Female Manager: A Mixed-Method Study5
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile5
Unpromising Futures: Early-Career GPs’ Narrative Accounts of Meaningful Work during a Professional Workforce Crisis5
Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality5
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency4
Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics4
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model4
Does College Prestige Matter? Asian CEOs and High-Skilled Immigrant Hiring in the US4
Cracking IT: Negotiating Working-Class Gender Capital through Group Enterprises in India4
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions4
Killing Them ‘Softly’ (!): Exploring Work Experiences in Care-Based Animal Dirty Work4
Ride-Hail Drivers, Taxi Drivers and Multiple Jobholders: Who Takes the Most Risks and Why?4
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work4
Betwixt and Between: The Invisible Experiences of Volunteers’ Body Work4
The Dynamics of Control of Migrant Agency Workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the Enterprising-Self4
Producing ‘The Right Candidate’: The Social Embeddedness of Labour Market Intermediaries for Migrant Workers in the Belgian Construction Sector4
Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’4
Live Performers’ Experiences of Precarity and Recognition during COVID-19 and Beyond4
Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State4
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace4
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies4
Book Review: Paul Stewart, Jean-Pierre Durand and Maria-Magdalena Richea (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of the Sociology of Work in Europe4
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment4
Towards ‘Racialising’ the Union Agenda on the Front Lines of Healthcare Professions4
It’s Not Just Sex: Relational Dynamics between Street-Based Sex Workers and Their Regular Customers4
(Doing) Time Is Money: Confinement, Prison Work and the Reproduction of Carceral Capitalism4
Superfluous Jobs in Extractive Industries: The Usefulness/Uselessness of Job Creation after Dispossession4
Work Therapy: Extractive Labour as Therapeutic Intervention3
Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan3
Negotiating Gendered Ageing: Intersectional Reflexivity and Experiences of Incongruity of Self-Employed Older Women3
Gender Equalities: What Lies Ahead3
Exploring Informal Work: Gaining Legitimation through Nudging3
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings3
Book Review: Tom Vickers, Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis: Producing Workers and Immigrants3
Will I Have to Be Reborn? Collective Sensemaking of Stigma among White-Collar Inmates3
Technological Change, Tasks and Class Inequality in Europe3
Book Review: Preet S Aulakh and Philip F Kelly (eds), Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia3
Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security3
A Bridge over Troubled Borders: Social Class and the Interplay between Work and Life3
Job Satisfaction and Sexual Orientation in Britain3
Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain3
Conceptualising ‘Within-Group Stigmatisation’ among High-Status Workers3
Bounded Well-Being: Designing Technologies for Workers’ Well-Being in Corporate Programmes3
Marketisation and the Public Good: A Typology of Responses among Museum Professionals3
Framing Unions and Nurses3
Thank You to Referees3
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden3
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker3
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Thank You to Referees 2023-243
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK3
Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan2
Book Review: Mike Saks (ed.), Support Workers and the Health Professions in International Perspective: The Invisible Providers of Health Care2
Adaptation Trajectories of Dismissed Workers: A Critical Case Study of the Lithuanian Radio-Electronics Sector2
Book Review: Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts, A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia2
Predicting Child-Labour Risks by Norms in India2
Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker–Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976–20152
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity2
Goldin’s Last Chapter on the Gender Pay Gap: An Exploratory Analysis Using Italian Data2
The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France2
The Association between Family Care and Paid Work among Women in Germany: Does the Household Economic Context Matter?2
Reconceptualising Work and Employment in Complex Productive Configurations2
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency2
‘You’d Die if You Didn’t Have Fun’: Interpreting the Experiences of Long-Term Unemployed Men as Bakhtinian Death–Rebirth2
Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control2
Supersizing the Impact of Unions in Downsizing Processes: A Configurational Approach Based on 19 Cases in France2
‘Our Backs Are Against the Wall’: The Story of a Bangladeshi Woman Garment Worker in the COVID-19 ‘New Normal’2
Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers’ Temporary Work2
‘A Good Death’: One Hospice Chaplain’s Approach to End-of-Life Care2
Between Frustration and Invigoration: Women Talking about Digital Technology at Work2
Book Reviews: Virginia Doellgast, Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries2
Otherness in the Workplace among Highly Skilled Labour Migrants: Swedes in Germany and the UK2
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