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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis	96
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education	51
Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat	43
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States	41
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia	36
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	35
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts	34
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers	34
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue	32
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain	30
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition	29
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany	28
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace	26
Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making	26
‘Working While Feeling Awful Is Normal’: One Roma’s Experience of Presenteeism	22
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–2019	20
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) GreerIanUmneyCharle	19
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, £29.99	18
Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings	17
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity	17
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	17
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden	16
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency	15
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model	15
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK	15

Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France	14
Thank You to Referees	14
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working	13
Book Review: Tom Vickers, Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis: Producing Workers and Immigrants	13
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality	12
Book Review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano TreréAlgorithms of Resist	12
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector	11
Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation	11
Migrant Entrepreneurship Enablers: From Chance Encounters to Community Development	11
Book Review: Banu Özkazanç-Pan, Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans	11
Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes	11
Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution	11
Book Review: Kate Kenny, Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory	11
Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace	10
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour	10
Book Review: Ergin Bulut, A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry	10
Labour Controls, Unfreedom and Perpetuation of Slavery on a Tea Plantation	10
Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry	10
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 Voice	10
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba	9
Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism	9
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace	9
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	9
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots	9
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers	9
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability	8
From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada)	8
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective	8
Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State	8
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia	8
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services	8
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment	8
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work	8
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	8
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space	8
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany	8
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA	8
Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform inNeoliberal Chile Pérez-AhumadaPabloBuilding Power to	8
Framing Unions and Nurses	7
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions	7
Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security	7
The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France	7
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting	7
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work	7
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	7
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment	7
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
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector	6
‘I Find it Daunting . . . That I’m Gonna Have to Deal with This until 60’: Extended Working Lives and the Sustainable Employability of Operational Firefighters	6

Book Review: Stephen R Barley, Work and Technological Change	6
Wage Differences between Polish and Romanian Intra-EU Migrants in a Flexi-Secure Labour Market: An Over-Time Perspective	6
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	6
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics’ Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity	6
‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level	6
Professionalization and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Comparative Study on German and US Job Requirements in CSR	6
The Role of Boundary-Spanners in the Control of a Chinese Garment Factory in Myanmar	6