OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Transfer-European Review of Labour and Research is 1. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: The Gig Economy – Workers and Media in the Age of Convergence	74
A labour–nature alliance for a social-ecological transformation	47
EU employment policy and social citizenship (2009–2022): an inclusive turn after the Social Pillar?	37
COVID-19 and the opportunity to change the neoliberal agenda: evidence from socio-employment policy responses across Europe	37
Introduction. Welfare states confronted by the challenges of climate change: a short review of the issues and possible impacts	34
Creating public value in hostile conditions: public procurement as an opportunity for collective bargaining in Poland and Slovakia	30
Governing the work-related risks of AI: implications for the German government and trade unions	30
Algorithmic management and collective bargaining	28
Essential or excluded? Union pressures and state responses to platform work in three liberal market economies	26
Cui bono – business or labour? Job retention policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe	23
Worker voice and algorithmic management in post-Brexit Britain	22
Book Review: Bernhard Ebbinghaus and J Timo Weishaupt The role of social partners in managing Europe’s great recession. Crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis?	21
Editorial	20
Book Reviews: Jane Holgate Arise. Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence	19
The European Participation Index (EPI) and inequality: a multi-dimensional cross-national comparative measure of worker participation	18
Social dialogue in the shadow of ad hoc government advisory bodies: the case of Central and Eastern Europe	15
Editorial	15
Book Review: Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies	15
Still asking for ‘more Europe’: understanding support for the EU among Italian and Romanian health-care unions	14
Searching for institutions: upgrading, private compliance, and due diligence in European apparel value chains	14
Institutionalised power or crisis corporatism? Comparing Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Editorial and Introduction	12
Trade unions anticipating alternative futures	11
Book Review: Who Cares? Attracting and Retaining Care Workers for the Elderly	10
Trade unions and labour market inactivity: a continuing sense of solidarity and belonging	10

Usages of ‘soft’ EU labour law: the implementation of the Minimum Wage Directive	9
Acknowledgements – referees	9
Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways	8
The uncertain social insurance of intra-EU mobile construction workers	7
What do data rights do for workers? A critical analysis of trade union engagement with the datafied workplace	7
Invisible but not unlimited – migrant workers and their working and living conditions	7
Can access to company boards improve transnational employee representation? Insights from employee representation in European Companies	7
Collectivising services: a path to trade union renewal in Europe	7
Conference ‘Labor and the Transition to Electric Vehicles: a global perspective’ Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, New York, 9–10 May 2025	7
Lost in transition? Social justice and the politics of the EU green transition	7
The role of trade union power resources in experimenting with ‘buying decent work’: the case of the Italian public procurement protocols	6
Book Review: Luigi Burroni, Emmanuele Pavolini and Marino Regini (eds) Mediterranean Capitalism Revisited	6
Editorial	6
A perfect storm: COVID-19 and the reorganisation of the German meat industry	6
‘Human resource management and the worker’: employee voice in management	6
Book Review: Minimum Wage Regimes. Statutory Regulation, Collective Bargaining and Adequate Levels	5
Editorial	5
Industrial relations and unemployment benefit schemes in the Visegrad countries during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Editorial	5
Introduction to the Transfer special issue. Regulating AI at work: labour relations, automation, and algorithmic management	5
Financialisation, shareholder value orientation, and the decline of trade union membership in the EU	5
Reconciliation policies in COVID times: what role for trade unions in Spain and Italy?	5
Crisis corporatism under strain: institutional power and the protection of vulnerable groups in Türkiye and Serbia	5
Trade unions and the foundational economy: understanding shifting boundaries, politics and functions of economic participation and social action within industrial relations	5
Book review: Unwitting Architect – German Primacy and the Origins of Neoliberalism	5
Unemployment benefit governance, trade unions and outsider protection in conservative welfare states	4
It takes two to code: a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and artificial intelligence	4
Editorial	4
From Taylorism to teams: organisational and institutional experimentation at France Télécom	4
Readjusting unemployment protection in Europe: how crises reshape varieties of labour market regimes	4
Perspective. Human labour, a capitalist challenge	4
From a handful of activists towards an organising subculture: institutionalisation of transnational union organising in Central and Eastern Europe	4
The emerging corporate sustainability reporting system: what role for workers’ representatives?	4
EU migrant workers and the right to health in the Netherlands during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Transforming work towards social-ecological sustainability: a capability perspective	3
European unemployment insurance. From undercurrent to paradigm shift	3
The politics of inflation and revitalisation of wage solidarity in Scandinavia	3
The revival of Social Europe: is this time different?	3
Governing neo-nationalism, trade unions and industrial relations: the cases of Hungary and Poland	3
Editorial	3
Editorial	3
Introduction to the special issue: Conflict and coordination in the cost-of-living crisis	3
Agenda-setting as a trade union strategy: the case of the minimum wage in the Netherlands	3
From one crisis to another: changes in the governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)	3
20 years after. Changing perspectives on industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe two decades after EU enlargement: from transition to transformation	2
Book Review: Media Capitalism. Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception	2
Employment policy for a just transition – the example of Germany	2
Crisis corporatism 2.0? The role of social dialogue in the pandemic crisis in Europe	2
Contingent workers and innovative digital collective action in Europe. Exploring inclusiveness through political intersectionality	2
Introduction. Making work better	2

Shifting gears: how platform companies maintain power in app-based food delivery in Norway	1
Examining recent initiatives to ensure labour rights for platform workers in the European Union to tackle the problem of domination	1
Inter-organisational human resource management and network orientation of worker representatives: a practice-based perspective	1
Round Table. Nordic unions and the European Minimum Wage Directive	1
The country-of-origin and country-of-operations effect on organised labour in multinational companies – exploring the role of labour relations models	1
Tensions and experimentation in setting, extending and enforcing working conditions: case studies of labour clauses in public procurement	1
Review Essay: Wolfgang Münchau’s Kaput and the three analytical lenses of comparative political economy MünchauWolfgangKaput. The End of the German Mirac	1
The relationship between union membership and workers’ well-being: a systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Negotiating limits on algorithmic management in digitalised services: cases from Germany and Norway	1
Introduction to special issue: Access of mobile workers to social rights in the pan-European labour market	1
Editorial	1
Job retention schemes in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic – different shapes and sizes and the role of collective bargaining	1
Book Review: Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy	1
Shielding competitiveness: Germany’s wage policy during the inflation shock years in comparative perspective	1
The political economy of inflation management: the case of Greece	1
(Re)shaping Amazon labour struggles on both sides of the Atlantic: the power dynamics in Germany and the US amidst the pandemic	1
Uphill struggle: collective bargaining for the self-employed in Poland	1
Perspective. The mirage of Europeanising industrial relations. What possibilities for East-West trade union cooperation?	1
Navigating cross-border labour mobility and employment security in European shipbuilding: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis	1
From a ‘just transition for us’ to a ‘just transition for all’	1
Can crisis corporatism protect vulnerable workers? Conceptual insights from a European perspective	1
Employee participation at company level: institutions, articulation and challenges	1
Promoting human-centred AI in the workplace. Trade unions and their strategies for regulating the use of AI in Germany	1
Round Table. Implementing the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in southern Europe: the odd case of Italy	1
Public procurement and job quality in the Netherlands: institutions, actors and experiments	1
Round Table. Implementing the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in the Low Countries: the case of the Netherlands	1