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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education129
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia62
Book Review: Alan Middleton, The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms MiddletonAlanThe Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, E53
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts48
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue46
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers44
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis43
Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality41
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States35
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace33
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition33
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain32
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, £29.99 24
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) GreerIanUmneyCharle24
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–201924
Coercion and Consent under Techno-Economic Despotism: Workers’ Alienation and ‘Liberation’ in the Amazon Warehouse21
Disaggregating Gender Income Disparities in STEM: Cohort and Family Factors in a Nordic Welfare State21
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany19
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model18
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK18
Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France18
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden18
Lay Moralities of Young Workers and the Moral Economy of Service Labour18
Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work17
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity17
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker17
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency16
Thank You to Referees16
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings15
Book Review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano TreréAlgorithms of Resist15
‘Get on Board or Get Off’: Nosediving Job Quality for Mental Health Providers in the Age of Platform Work14
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality14
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working13
Change and Resistance in the Royal Mail: Dispatches from the 2022/2023 Postal Workers’ Strike13
Book Review: Banu Özkazanç-Pan, Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans12
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector12
Gaming Hope: Professional Women’s Football as Precarious Work12
Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation12
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour11
Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution HolborowMarnie Home11
Book Review: Ergin Bulut, A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry11
Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes11
Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism10
Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry10
Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace10
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 Voice10
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict10
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers10
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services9
From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada)9
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba9
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace9
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots9
Organizational Intersectionality: Do Gender and Migration Status Inequalities Reinforce or Offset Each Other in French Workplaces?9
Developing a Standard Measure of Job Quality9
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany9
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability8
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work8
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space8
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work8
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform inNeoliberal Chile Pérez-AhumadaPabloBuilding Power to 8
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic8
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA8
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective8
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment7
Framing Unions and Nurses7
Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow7
Special NEETs: Institutional Influences on School-to-Work Transitions of Young People with Disabilities in Europe7
The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France7
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 Countries7
Wage Differences between Polish and Romanian Intra-EU Migrants in a Flexi-Secure Labour Market: An Over-Time Perspective6
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting6
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic6
‘Lived Capitalisation’: How Speculative Finance Shapes the Social and Financial Lives of ‘Gig’ Workers in Bengaluru, India6
Joint Book Review AkyelkenNihanWomen, Work and Mobilities: The Case of Urban and Regional Contexts in TurkeyAbingdon: Routledge, 2024, £39.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9781032562988), 148 pp.BertoliniSoniaGoglioVal6
Book Review: Stephen R Barley, Work and Technological Change6
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector6
Is Workplace Flexibility Penalised? The Gendered Consequences of Working from Home for the Wages of Parents and Childless Employees in the UK6
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions6
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics’ Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity6
Book Review: Denys Gorbach, The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City GorbachDenysThe Making and 6
Bridging the Gaps in Work Quality Research: A Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Review6
Book Review: Eva Fodor, The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary5
Robotisation and Workforce Dynamics: Analysing Employment and Wage Effects within Manufacturing Establishments5
The Role of Boundary-Spanners in the Control of a Chinese Garment Factory in Myanmar5
Crossers in a Segmented Labour Market: Occupational Advancement and Wage Changes from Semi-Skilled and Unskilled Jobs5
Professionalization and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Comparative Study on German and US Job Requirements in CSR5
Managerial Technique and Worker Subjectivity in Dialogue: Understanding Overwork in China’s Internet Industry5
The Struggle for Meaning in Contemporary Care Work5
Union Equality Structures and the Challenge of Democratic Legitimacy: The Case of the Fire Brigades Union4
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation4
Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service4
Computer Use and Digital Frustration in German Workplaces: Is There a Gendered Part-Time Gap?4
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions4
Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets4
Women and the Standard Workweek: Developing a Typology of Work Schedules in the UK4
Rethinking Mobilization Theory for Union Revitalization within the SSA Theory Framework4
Book Review: Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó and Vincenzo Maccarrone, Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisi4
Embedded Strangers in One’s Own Job? Freelance Interpreters’ Invisible Work: A Practice Theory Approach4
(Doing) Time Is Money: Confinement, Prison Work and the Reproduction of Carceral Capitalism4
From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work4
Book Review: Peter Ackers, Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg AckersPeterTrade Unions and the British Indu4
Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement4
Employment Discrimination against Indigenous People with Tribal Marks in Nigeria: The Painful Face of Stigma4
Why Do So Many People Not Vote? Correlates of Participation in Trade Union Strike Ballots4
Inter-Union Solidarity and Strategic Group Identity: Insights from Works Councils in the French Car Industry4
Thank You to Referees4
Influences on Employment Transitions around the Birth of the First Child: The Experience of Italian Mothers4
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies4
Book Review: Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts, A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia4
Book Review: Paul David Harpur, Ableism at Work: Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment4
Queer Bonds at Work: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Workplace Relations Among Sexual Minority Employees in Hong Kong4
The Dynamics of Control of Migrant Agency Workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the Enterprising-Self3
Exploring Informal Work: Gaining Legitimation through Nudging3
Union Coalitions and Strategic Framing: The Case of the Agricultural Advisory Panel for Wales3
‘I am a Scaffolder’: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in ‘Dirty Work’3
Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings3
Hiring Temps but Losing Perms? Temporary Worker Inflows and Voluntary Turnover of Permanent Employees3
Supersizing the Impact of Unions in Downsizing Processes: A Configurational Approach Based on 19 Cases in France3
Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan3
Theo Nichols: A Personal Tribute3
Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services3
Thursday Night and a Sing-along ‘Sung Alone’: The Experiences of a Self-employed Performer During the Pandemic3
A Bridge over Troubled Borders: Social Class and the Interplay between Work and Life3
Will I Have to Be Reborn? Collective Sensemaking of Stigma among White-Collar Inmates3
Live Performers’ Experiences of Precarity and Recognition during COVID-19 and Beyond3
Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors’ Careers, 1970 to 20163
Thank You to Referees3
How Work Hour Variability Matters for Work-to-Family Conflict3
The Scarring Effect of First Job Precarity: New Evidence from a Panel Study in Hong Kong2
Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations2
Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time2
Participation in Job-Related Training: Is There a Parenthood Training Penalty?2
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
Disabled People Working in the Disability Sector: Occupational Segregation or Personal Fulfilment?2
Young is Fun: Examining the Inter-Relations of Play and Age at Work2
Book Review: William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams (eds), Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies2
Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan2
Book Review: Raven Bowen, Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle2
‘Divergent Work Ageing’ and Older Migrants’ (Un)extended Working Lives2
‘The Biggest Problem We Are Facing Is the Running Away Problem’: Recruitment and the Paradox of Facilitating the Mobility of Immobile Workers2
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms2
Decline of the Centrality of Work? Critique of a Contemporary Ideology2
Holiworking: Perspectives on New Ways of Integrating Holiday and Work2
The Discursive Power of Trade Union Leadership: Framing Identity Fields for Public Persuasion2
Experiencing Deportation as Dirty Work? The Case of Dutch Escort Officers1
‘Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life’: Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs1
Producing ‘The Right Candidate’: The Social Embeddedness of Labour Market Intermediaries for Migrant Workers in the Belgian Construction Sector1
Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector1
The Makeshift Careers of Women in Malawi: Neither Traditional Nor Flexible1
Conceptualising ‘Within-Group Stigmatisation’ among High-Status Workers1
The Association between Family Care and Paid Work among Women in Germany: Does the Household Economic Context Matter?1
‘Our Backs Are Against the Wall’: The Story of a Bangladeshi Woman Garment Worker in the COVID-19 ‘New Normal’1
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency1
Making Sense of Exploitation: Teenage Workers’ Experiences of Unpaid Labour in Low-Wage Service Jobs1
Radical Change and Institutional Resilience: The Case of Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe1
Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work1
Betwixt and Between: The Invisible Experiences of Volunteers’ Body Work1
Book Reviews: Virginia Doellgast, Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries1
Book Review: Lars Meier, Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class1
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
‘A Good Death’: One Hospice Chaplain’s Approach to End-of-Life Care1
The Activating Welfare State and Precarisation: a Temporal Analysis of the Perceived Unemployment Risk in Switzerland, 1999–20191
Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality1
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil1
Book Review: Rebecca WB Lund and Ann Christin E Nilsen (eds), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region1
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines1
Bounded Well-Being: Designing Technologies for Workers’ Well-Being in Corporate Programmes1
Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective: How, Where and Why Do Platform Workers Protest?1
Book Reviews: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour1
Thank You to Referees 2023-241
‘It’s One Rule for Them and One for Us’: Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour1
Why Female Employees Do Not Earn More under a Female Manager: A Mixed-Method Study1
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