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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis	104
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education	55
Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat	48
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia	45
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	37
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue	36
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers	36
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts	35
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States	34
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain	31
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition	30
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany	30
Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making	29
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–2019	28
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) GreerIanUmneyCharle	23
Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France WatersSarahSuicide Voices: Labour Trauma in FranceLiverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020, £29.99	22
‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace	20
Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model	18
Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency	18
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK	17
Thank You to Referees	17
Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France	16
Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden	15
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	15
Book Review: Tom Vickers, Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis: Producing Workers and Immigrants	15

Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings	14
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity	13
Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working	13
The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality	13
Book Review: Banu Özkazanç-Pan, Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans	12
Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes	12
Book Review: Kate Kenny, Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory	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
Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation	12
Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution	11
Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour	11
The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector	11
Book Review: Ergin Bulut, A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry	11
Migrant Entrepreneurship Enablers: From Chance Encounters to Community Development	11
Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry	11
Labour Controls, Unfreedom and Perpetuation of Slavery on a Tea Plantation	10
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace	10
Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism	10
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	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
‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers	10
Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace	10
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany	9
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba	9
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services	9
From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada)	9
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment	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
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots	8
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space	8
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia	8
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work	8
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective	8
There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability	8
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	8
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work	8
The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France	7
Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security	7
Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment	7
A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector	7
Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions	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
‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level	7
Framing Unions and Nurses	7
‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting	7
Wage Differences between Polish and Romanian Intra-EU Migrants in a Flexi-Secure Labour Market: An Over-Time Perspective	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
Book Review: Eva Fodor, The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary	6

Managerial Technique and Worker Subjectivity in Dialogue: Understanding Overwork in China’s Internet Industry	6
Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics’ Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity	6
The Role of Boundary-Spanners in the Control of a Chinese Garment Factory in Myanmar	6
Managing Health and Well-Being in SMEs through an Adviceline: A Typology of Managerial Behaviours	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
Bridging the Gaps in Work Quality Research: A Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Review	6
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	6
Book Review: Stephen R Barley, Work and Technological Change	6
Workplace Bullying and Intensification of Labour Controls in the Clothing Supply Chain: Post-Rana Plaza Disaster	6
Professionalization and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Comparative Study on German and US Job Requirements in CSR	6