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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

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
The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service	29
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	29
The Worker Capabilities Approach: Insights from Worker Mobilizations in Italian Logistics and Food Delivery	27
‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives	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
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
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work	23
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
‘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
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	21
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs	20
‘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
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	19

‘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
Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms	17
Working from Home in Urban China during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assemblages of Work-Family Interference	16
The Relative Quality of Sex Work	16
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines	16
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
Profit over People? Evaluating Morality on the Front Line during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Front-Line Service Manager’s Confession and Regrets	15
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
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work	14
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
Vice-Chancellor Pay and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Vice-Chancellor Characteristics	13
Relationship-Based Care Work, Austerity and Aged Care	12
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	12
When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry	12
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
Configurations of Boundary Management Practices among Knowledge Workers	11
Negotiating Gendered Ageing: Intersectional Reflexivity and Experiences of Incongruity of Self-Employed Older Women	11
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
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
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
Bringing Women on Board? Family Policies, Quotas and Gender Diversity in Top Jobs	9
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
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
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
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
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
Staying Down with the Joneses: Differences in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment across Neighbourhoods	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
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	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