OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Work Employment and Society is 6. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘My Life Is More Valuable Than This’: Understanding Risk among On-Demand Food Couriers in Edinburgh	80
At Least I’m My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work	35
Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam	30
Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention	27
The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service	25
The Worker Capabilities Approach: Insights from Worker Mobilizations in Italian Logistics and Food Delivery	25
Digi-Housekeeping: The Invisible Work of Flexibility	24
Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom	23
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	23
With a Little Help from My Friends: Social-Network Job Search and Overqualification among Recent Intra-EU Migrants Moving from East to West	22
Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics	22
‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives	21
Precarity as a Biographical Problem? Young Workers Living with Precarity in Germany and Poland	20
Data Scientists’ Identity Work: Omnivorous Symbolic Boundaries in Skills Acquisition	20
Career Advancement for Women in the British Hospitality Industry: The Enabling Factors	19
Upskilling, Deskilling or Polarisation? Evidence on Change in Skills in Europe	18
Economic Inactivity, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and Scarring: The Importance of NEET as a Marker of Long-Term Disadvantage	18
‘Good’ Bad Jobs? The Evolution of Migrant Low-Wage Employment in Germany (1985–2015)	17
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs	17
Women Professors across STEMM and Non-STEMM Disciplines: Navigating Gendered Spaces and Playing the Academic Game	17
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	17
‘It’s Like a War Zone’: Jay’s Liminal Experience of Normal and Extreme Work in a UK Supermarket during the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’	16
Disability and Academic Careers: Using the Social Relational Model to Reveal the Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Creating Disability	16
Do Equal Qualifications Yield Equal Rewards for Immigrants in the Labour Market?	16

Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work	15
The Making of Cheap Labour across Production and Reproduction: Control and Resistance in the Senegalese Horticultural Value Chain	15
‘You Just Had to Get on with It’: Exploring the Persistence of Gender Inequality through Women’s Career Histories	15
The Relative Quality of Sex Work	15
‘Working to Live, Not Living to Work’: Low-Paid Multiple Employment and Work–Life Articulation	14
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia	14
When Can a Disability Quota System Empower Disabled Individuals in the Workplace? The Case of France	14
A Capability Approach to Understand the Scarring Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity: Developing the Research Agenda	14
Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms	14
Profit over People? Evaluating Morality on the Front Line during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Front-Line Service Manager’s Confession and Regrets	13
Masters of None? How Cultural Workers Use Reframing to Achieve Legitimacy in Portfolio Careers	13
Occupations and the Non-Standard Employment Career: How the Occupational Skill Level and Task Types Influence the Career Outcomes of Non-Standard Employment	12
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work	12
Gender Wage Gap and the Involvement of Partners in Household Work	12
Doing and Negotiating Transgender on the Front Line: Customer Abuse, Transphobia and Stigma in the Food Retail Sector	12
Reproducing Global Inequalities in the Online Labour Market: Valuing Capital in the Design Field	12
Vice-Chancellor Pay and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Vice-Chancellor Characteristics	11
Sticks and Stones: The Naming of Global Talent	11
Relationship-Based Care Work, Austerity and Aged Care	11
Conceptualising ‘Meta-Work’ in the Context of Continuous, Global Mobility: The Case of Digital Nomadism	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
Job Satisfaction and Sexual Orientation in Britain	11
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines	11
Negotiating Gendered Ageing: Intersectional Reflexivity and Experiences of Incongruity of Self-Employed Older Women	10
Rethinking Situated Learning: Participation and Communities of Practice in the UK Fire and Rescue Service	10
When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry	10
Consuming Worker Exploitation? Accounts and Justifications for Consumer (In)action to Modern Slavery	10
Configurations of Boundary Management Practices among Knowledge Workers	10
‘They’ve Been with Me the Whole Journey’: Temporality, Emotional Labour and Hairdressing Work	10
Trade Union Power Resources within the Supply Chain: Marketisation, Marginalisation, Mobilisation	9
A Heterodox Re-Reading of Creative Work: The Diverse Economies of Danish Visual Artists	9
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study	9
The Partner Pay Gap: Associations between Spouses’ Relative Earnings and Life Satisfaction among Couples in the UK	9
Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan	9
Killing Them ‘Softly’ (!): Exploring Work Experiences in Care-Based Animal Dirty Work	9
Gender Role Attitudes and Labour Market Behaviours: Do Attitudes Contribute to Gender Differences in Employment in Germany?	9
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	9
Stressed, Depressed and Exhausted: Six Years as a Teacher in UK State Education	9
Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations	8
Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services	8
Trapped in Precariousness? Risks and Opportunities of Female Immigrants and Natives Transitioning from Part-Time Jobs in Spain	8
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	8
McStrike! Framing, (Political) Opportunity and the Development of a Collective Identity: McDonald’s and the UK Fast-Food Rights Campaign	8
Moral Dilemma of Striking: A Medical Worker’s Response to Job Duty, Public Health Protection and the Politicization of Strikes	8
Fathers’ Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements: Evidence from the UK	8
Why Do Humans Remain Central to the Knowledge Work in the Age of Robots? Marx’sFragment on Machinesand Beyond	8
Emotional Labour and the Autonomy of Dependent Self-Employed Workers: The Limitations of Digital Managerial Control in the Home Credit Sector	8
Working from Home in Urban China during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assemblages of Work-Family Interference	8
Possible Selves in a Transforming Economy: Upwardly Mobile Working-Class Masculinities, Service Work and Negotiated Aspirations in Australia	8

The ‘Grey Zone’ at the Interface of Work and Home: Theorizing Adaptations Required by Precarious Work	8
Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography	7
Bringing Women on Board? Family Policies, Quotas and Gender Diversity in Top Jobs	7
Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain	7
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment	7
The Employment Trajectories of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence	7
Precarious Education-to-Work Transitions: Entering Welfare Professions under a Workfarist Regime	7
Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control	7
Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State	7
Working Hard for the Ones You Love and Care for Under Covid-19 Physical Distancing	7
‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level	7
The Impact of Unemployment and Non-Standard Forms of Employment on the Housing Autonomy of Young Adults	7
Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China	7
Public Service, Private Delivery: Service Workers and the Negotiation of Blurred Boundaries in a Neoliberal State	6
Migrants at Work: Perspectives, Perceptions and New Connections	6
Trouble in Direct Payment Personal Assistance Relationships	6
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	6
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms	6
Refugee Subentrepreneurship: The Emergence of a Liquid Cage	6
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies	6
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19	6
No Voice, No Choice: Assessing Danish Active Labour Market Policies Using Sen’s Capability Approach	6
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	6
University or Degree Apprenticeship? Stratification and Uncertainty in Routes to the Solicitors’ Profession	6