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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘My Life Is More Valuable Than This’: Understanding Risk among On-Demand Food Couriers in Edinburgh	94
Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention	57
At Least I’m My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work	47
From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China	34
The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service	33
Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work	32
The Worker Capabilities Approach: Insights from Worker Mobilizations in Italian Logistics and Food Delivery	28
Economic Inactivity, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and Scarring: The Importance of NEET as a Marker of Long-Term Disadvantage	27
Data Scientists’ Identity Work: Omnivorous Symbolic Boundaries in Skills Acquisition	26
Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics	26
Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict	24
‘It’s Like a War Zone’: Jay’s Liminal Experience of Normal and Extreme Work in a UK Supermarket during the COVID-19 Pandemic	24
Career Advancement for Women in the British Hospitality Industry: The Enabling Factors	24
Disability and Academic Careers: Using the Social Relational Model to Reveal the Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Creating Disability	24
The Making of Cheap Labour across Production and Reproduction: Control and Resistance in the Senegalese Horticultural Value Chain	23
Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms	23
Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs	23
Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic	22
A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms	20
Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines	20
Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work	19
Conceptualising ‘Meta-Work’ in the Context of Continuous, Global Mobility: The Case of Digital Nomadism	19
Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia	18
Working from Home in Urban China during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assemblages of Work-Family Interference	17
Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’	17

Doing and Negotiating Transgender on the Front Line: Customer Abuse, Transphobia and Stigma in the Food Retail Sector	15
How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies	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
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker	15
When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry	15
When Can a Disability Quota System Empower Disabled Individuals in the Workplace? The Case of France	15
Masters of None? How Cultural Workers Use Reframing to Achieve Legitimacy in Portfolio Careers	14
Vice-Chancellor Pay and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Vice-Chancellor Characteristics	13
Killing Them ‘Softly’ (!): Exploring Work Experiences in Care-Based Animal Dirty Work	13
Consent and Contestation: How Platform Workers Reckon with the Risks of Gig Labor	12
Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan	12
‘They’ve Been with Me the Whole Journey’: Temporality, Emotional Labour and Hairdressing Work	12
Youth, Work and ‘Career’ as a Way of Talking about the Self	12
Job Satisfaction and Sexual Orientation in Britain	12
Relationship-Based Care Work, Austerity and Aged Care	12
A Heterodox Re-Reading of Creative Work: The Diverse Economies of Danish Visual Artists	12
Configurations of Boundary Management Practices among Knowledge Workers	11
Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency	11
Staying Down with the Joneses: Differences in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment across Neighbourhoods	11
Negotiating Gendered Ageing: Intersectional Reflexivity and Experiences of Incongruity of Self-Employed Older Women	11
Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space	11
Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study	11
McStrike! Framing, (Political) Opportunity and the Development of a Collective Identity: McDonald’s and the UK Fast-Food Rights Campaign	11
Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State	11
Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China	11
Moral Dilemma of Striking: A Medical Worker’s Response to Job Duty, Public Health Protection and the Politicization of Strikes	10
Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services	10
Bringing Women on Board? Family Policies, Quotas and Gender Diversity in Top Jobs	10
Fathers’ Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements: Evidence from the UK	10
Gender Role Attitudes and Labour Market Behaviours: Do Attitudes Contribute to Gender Differences in Employment in Germany?	10
Why Do Humans Remain Central to the Knowledge Work in the Age of Robots? Marx’s Fragment on Machines and Beyond	9
Refugee Subentrepreneurship: The Emergence of a Liquid Cage	9
Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations	9
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	9
The ‘Grey Zone’ at the Interface of Work and Home: Theorizing Adaptations Required by Precarious Work	9
Working Hard for the Ones You Love and Care for Under Covid-19 Physical Distancing	9
Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control	9
The Employment Trajectories of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence	8
Gender Equalities: What Lies Ahead	8
‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment	8
Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography	8
‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level	8
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	8
Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation	8
Emotional Labour and the Autonomy of Dependent Self-Employed Workers: The Limitations of Digital Managerial Control in the Home Credit Sector	8
Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain	8
Trouble in Direct Payment Personal Assistance Relationships	8
An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19	7
Labour Controls, Unfreedom and Perpetuation of Slavery on a Tea Plantation	7
Migrant Entrepreneurship Enablers: From Chance Encounters to Community Development	7

Training Regimes and Diversity: Experiences of Young Foreign Employees in Japanese Headquarters	7
Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany	7
Gender Differences in the Social Consequences of Unemployment: How Job Loss Affects the Risk of Becoming Socially Isolated	7
Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia	7
How Occupational Pensions Shape Extended Working Lives: Gender, Class and Chance after the Norwegian Pension Reform	7
From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors	7
‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless	7
Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK	7
‘You Can’t Eat Soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South	7
The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany	6
Managing Health and Well-Being in SMEs through an Adviceline: A Typology of Managerial Behaviours	6
Caring in the Gig Economy: A Relational Perspective of Decent Work	6
‘Working While Feeling Awful Is Normal’: One Roma’s Experience of Presenteeism	6
Self-Employed Women in Europe: Lack of Opportunity or Forced by Necessity?	6
‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity	6
Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil	6
University or Degree Apprenticeship? Stratification and Uncertainty in Routes to the Solicitors’ Profession	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