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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots	82
Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba	40
Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work	37
Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany	34
‘You Can’t Eat Soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South	32
Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue	32
Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany	31
Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace	30
Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts	29
Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media	28
Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers	28
Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector	26
Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success	26
Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia	25
Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: Evidence for European Employees	25
The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis	21
Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China	21
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19	19
Embedded Strangers in One’s Own Job? Freelance Interpreters’ Invisible Work: A Practice Theory Approach	17
Trans People in the Workplace: Possibilities for Subverting Heteronormativity	15
Book Review: Stephen Edgell and Edward Granter, The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work (Third Edition)	14
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs	14
Conceptualising Work as a ‘Safe Space’ for Negotiating LGBT Identities: Navigating Careers in the Construction Sector	14
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	14
Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services	14

Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines	13
From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada)	13
Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States	12
Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement	12
Radical Change and Institutional Resilience: The Case of Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe	11
Trade Union Solidarity in Crisis: The Generative Tensions of Worker Solidarities in Argentina	11
Why Do So Many People Not Vote? Correlates of Participation in Trade Union Strike Ballots	11
Book Review: Calla Hummel, Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State	11
Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour	11
Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education	11
Retirement in Western Germany – How Workplace Tasks Influence Its Timing	10
Temporary Contracts, Employment Trajectories and Dualisation: A Comparison of Norway and Sweden	10
Book Review: Paul David Harpur, Ableism at Work: Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment	10
Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat	10
Boards for Diversity? A Critical Economic Sociology of British South Asian Senior Leaders’ Experiences of the Executive Level of Football	10
Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time	10
Book Review: Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and Sin Yi Cheung The Death of Human Capital? Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption	10
Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets	9
The Socio-Materiality of Dirty Work: A Critical Realist Perspective	9
‘Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life’: Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs	9
‘Difficult to Divulge’: The Impact of Organisational Silence around the Menopause	9
Staying Down with the Joneses: Differences in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment across Neighbourhoods	9
Organized Crime and Employment Relations: A Personal Story of ‘Ndrangheta Control on Employment Relations Management Practices in Southern Italy	9
Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time	9
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation	9
Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions	8
Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work	8
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment	8
Trouble in Direct Payment Personal Assistance Relationships	8
Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work	8
Extreme Lockdowns and the Gendered Informalization of Employment: Evidence from the Philippines	8
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space	8
Wage Effects of Couples’ Divisions of Labour across the UK Wage Distribution	8
Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–2019	8
‘Dances with Daffodils’: Life as a Flower-picker in Southwest England	8
Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service	7
Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA	7
Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms	7
Between Settlement and Mobilization: Political Logics of Intra-Organizational Union Communication on Social Media	7
Book Review: Matt Vidal, Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management	7
Thank You to Referees	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
‘Basically He’s a Pet, Not a Working Dog’: Theorising What Therapy Dogs Do in the Workplace	7
On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition	6
Book Review: Rebecca WB Lund and Ann Christin E Nilsen (eds), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region	6
Book Review: David Etherington, Austerity, Welfare and Work: Exploring Politics, Geographies and Inequalities	6
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	6
Organising Against Precarity: The Life of a South African Labour Broker Worker	6
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia	6
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany	6

Influences on Employment Transitions around the Birth of the First Child: The Experience of Italian Mothers	6
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil	6
Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective	6
Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making	6
Book Review: Rachael A Woldoff and Robert C Litchfield, Digital Nomads: In Search of Meaningful Work in the New Economy	6
Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization	6
When Values and Ethics of Care Conflict: A Lived Experience in the Roman Catholic Church	6
Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain	6
From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work	6