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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education	83
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts	68
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue	62
Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality	61
Book Review: Alan Middleton, The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms MiddletonAlanThe Informal Sector in Ecua	58
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia	44
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers	39
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States	32
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis	31
Lay Moralities of Young Workers and the Moral Economy of Service Labour	25
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Pres	25
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
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) Gre	24
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–2019	24
Disaggregating Gender Income Disparities in STEM: Cohort and Family Factors in a Nordic Welfare State	24
Organising Beyond the Employment Relationship: Scaling Up and Institutional Power in Own-Account Unions	22
Ambivalent Inclusion: Older Workers, Diversity Agendas and the Persistence of the Ideal Worker	22
Coercion and Consent under Techno-Economic Despotism: Workers’ Alienation and ‘Liberation’ in the Amazon Warehouse	22
Thank You to Referees	21
Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France	20
Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work	19
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings	18
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK	18
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality	18
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model	18

Change and Resistance in the Royal Mail: Dispatches from the 2022/2023 Postal Workers’ Strike	17
‘Get on Board or Get Off’: Nosediving Job Quality for Mental Health Providers in the Age of Platform Work	17
Book Review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano TreréAlgo	16
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working	16
Solidarity and Contentiousness in Migrant Worker Mobilisation: Syndicalist Unionisation in Sweden	16
Gaming Hope: Professional Women’s Football as Precarious Work	16
Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation	15
Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution	15
Bridge-building Emotional Labour: The Emotional Labour of Boundary Spanners Who Match Disadvantaged Claimants with Employers	15
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour	14
Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace	13
Book review: Franz Nicolay, Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music NicolayFranzBand People: Life and Work in Popular MusicAustin, TX: University of	13
Book review: Sylvie Célérier and Alberto Riesco-Sanz, Workers Without Companies: Towards a New Way of Working CélérierSylvieRiesco-SanzAlbertoWorkers Wit	12
Contesting Labour Violations in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields	12
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers	12
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services	11
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany	11
Organizational Intersectionality: Do Gender and Migration Status Inequalities Reinforce or Offset Each Other in French Workplaces?	11
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots	10
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace	10
Developing a Standard Measure of Job Quality	10
Who You Know or What You Know? Job Search and Matching in the Presence of Network-Based Recruitment	10
The Intensification–Extensification Dynamic: Hybrid Work and Digital Connectivity	10
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA	9
Fathers Combining Work and Care: Flexible Work Arrangements and Paternal Involvement Across Financial Situations	9
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work	9
‘Straight from a Night Shift to the Infusions’: Crip Temporalities at Work	9
Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow	8
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 France	8
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform inNeoliberal Chile Pérez-AhumadaPabloBu	8
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 Countries	8
Glocalising Union Organising: How Access to Power Resources Enables and Constrains Global Union Federation Campaigns in the Global South	8
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability	8
Special NEETs: Institutional Influences on School-to-Work Transitions of Young People with Disabilities in Europe	8
What Does it Mean to be Passionate about Your Job? Three Meanings of ‘Collectively Oriented Passion’ in UK Pubs	7
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment	7
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions	7
Is Workplace Flexibility Penalised? The Gendered Consequences of Working from Home for the Wages of Parents and Childless Employees in the UK	7
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector	7
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting	7
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics’ Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity	7
Bridging the Gaps in Work Quality Research: A Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Review	7
Framing Unions and Nurses	7
Book Review: Eva Fodor, The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary	6
The Role of Boundary-Spanners in the Control of a Chinese Garment Factory in Myanmar	6
Robotisation and Workforce Dynamics: Analysing Employment and Wage Effects within Manufacturing Establishments	6
‘Lived Capitalisation’: How Speculative Finance Shapes the Social and Financial Lives of ‘Gig’ Workers in Bengaluru, India	6
Book Review: Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó and Vincenzo Maccarrone, Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financi	6

Book Review: Denys Gorbach, The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City GorbachDeny	6
The Struggle for Meaning in Contemporary Care Work	6