Work, Employment & Society

1987 - 2025

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Volume 39, issue 1, 2025

Navigating the Labour Market: Women Job Seekers’ Mobilisation of a Postfeminist Sensibility pp. 3-23

Ruth Abrams, Deborah Brewis and Miguel Imas

Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia pp. 24-42

Margaretha Järvinen and Nanna Mik-Meyer

Inequality Regimes in Coworking Spaces: How New Forms of Organising (Re)produce Inequalities pp. 43-63

Lena Knappert, Boukje Cnossen and Renate Ortlieb

Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality pp. 64-90

Allison Logan and Daniel Schneider

How do parents care together? Dyadic parental leave take-up strategies, wages and workplace characteristics pp. 91-114

Marie Valentova

Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–2019 pp. 115-138

Saverio Minardi

Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model pp. 139-162

Philipp Linden and Nadine Reibling

How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors pp. 163-184

Priyanka Vedi, Marek Korczynski and Simon Bishop

Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA pp. 185-201

Joanna Dressel, Paul Attewell, Liza Reisel and Kjersti Misje Østbakken

Working like Machines: Technological Upgrading and Labour in the Dutch Agri-food Chain pp. 202-225

Karin Astrid Siegmann, Petar Ivošević and Oane Visser

Marketisation and the Public Good: A Typology of Responses among Museum Professionals pp. 226-247

Jeremy Aroles and Kevin Morrell

Men at Work: How Are Masculinities Constituted and Performed in Work and Employment Settings? pp. 248-255

Andreas Giazitzoglu

Book Review: Sarah Waters, Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France pp. 256-258

William Fleming

Book Review: Ian Greer and Charles Umney, Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) pp. 258-259

Stephen Bryant

Book Review: Irene Sotiropoulou, Machines Against Measures pp. 260-261

Konstantinos Kerasovitis

Volume 38, issue 6, 2024

Integrating Collective Voice within Job Demands–Resources Theory pp. 1465-1484

Josef Ringqvist

Diverging Entrepreneurial Paths of Survivalist Truckers: Migrants’ Ongoing Agency in US Trucking pp. 1485-1505

Görkem Dağdelen

Bounded Well-Being: Designing Technologies for Workers’ Well-Being in Corporate Programmes pp. 1506-1527

Lia Tirabeni

Market Dependence as a Boundary Construction for Work Solidarity with the Solo Self-employed pp. 1528-1548

Isabell Kathrin Stamm, Lena Schürmann and Katharina Scheidgen

Relational Responsibilisation and Diversity Management in the 21st Century: The Case for Reframing Equality Regulation pp. 1549-1568

Steve Vincent, Ana Lopes, Elina Meliou and Mustafa Özbilgin

Live Performers’ Experiences of Precarity and Recognition during COVID-19 and Beyond pp. 1569-1590

Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler

Script Adaptation: Understanding Continuity in Local Cooperation after Sector-Level Conflict over Teachers’ Working Time pp. 1591-1610

Nana Wesley Hansen

How Work Hour Variability Matters for Work-to-Family Conflict pp. 1611-1635

Hyojin Cho, Susan J Lambert, Emily Ellis and Julia R Henly

‘Divergent Work Ageing’ and Older Migrants’ (Un)extended Working Lives pp. 1636-1657

Sajia Ferdous

The Impact of Welfare Conditionality on Experiences of Job Quality pp. 1658-1679

Katy Jones, Sharon Wright and Lisa Scullion

Demanding a Voice? Worker Participation in the British Interwar Management Movement pp. 1680-1702

Mairi Maclean, Gareth Shaw and Charles Harvey

Constructing Mobilities: The Reproduction of Posted Workers’ Disposability in the Construction Sector pp. 1703-1724

Francesco Bagnardi, Devi Sacchetto and Francesca Alice Vianello

‘Our Backs Are Against the Wall’: The Story of a Bangladeshi Woman Garment Worker in the COVID-19 ‘New Normal’ pp. 1725-1735

Aysha Siddika, Peter Lund-Thomsen, Anita Hammer, Marie Vahl and Rayat

Book Review: Renyi Hong, Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life pp. 1736-1738

Samia Rahman

Thank You to Referees 2023-24 pp. 1739-1743

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Volume 38, issue 5, 2024

‘It’s One Rule for Them and One for Us’: Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour pp. 1175-1196

Julie Monroe, Steve Vincent and Ana Lopes

Extreme Lockdowns and the Gendered Informalization of Employment: Evidence from the Philippines pp. 1197-1222

Vincent Jerald Ramos

Wage Effects of Couples’ Divisions of Labour across the UK Wage Distribution pp. 1223-1243

Niels Blom and Lynn Prince Cooke

Inclusion is in the Eye of the Beholder: A Relational Analysis of the Role of Gendered Moral Rationalities in Saudi Arabia pp. 1244-1266

Maryam Aldossari and Susan Elaine Murphy

‘At Times it’s Too Difficult, it is Too Traumatic, it’s Too Much’: The Emotion Work of Domestic Abuse Helpline Staff During Covid-19 pp. 1267-1284

Chloe Maclean, Zara Brodie, Roxanne Hawkins and Jack Cameron McKinlay

‘Money Probably Has Something to Do with My Life’: Discourse and Materiality in the Working Lives of Start-Up Entrepreneurs pp. 1285-1306

Karel Musílek, Kimberly Jamie and Mark Learmonth

Ride-Hail Drivers, Taxi Drivers and Multiple Jobholders: Who Takes the Most Risks and Why? pp. 1307-1332

Alexandra D Lefcoe, Catherine E Connelly and Ian R Gellatly

The Role of Boundary-Spanners in the Control of a Chinese Garment Factory in Myanmar pp. 1333-1356

Alvin Hoi-Chun Hung

The Makeshift Careers of Women in Malawi: Neither Traditional Nor Flexible pp. 1357-1378

Tiyesere Mercy Chikapa, Jill Rubery and Isabel Távora

Navigating Choppy Water: Flexibility Ripple Effects in the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Remote and Hybrid Working pp. 1379-1402

Daniel Wheatley, Matthew R. Broome, Tony Dobbins, Benjamin Hopkins and Owen Powell

Experiencing Deportation as Dirty Work? The Case of Dutch Escort Officers pp. 1403-1422

Teun Eikenaar

Consent and Contestation: How Platform Workers Reckon with the Risks of Gig Labor pp. 1423-1444

Juliet B Schor, Christopher Tirrell and Steven Peter Vallas

‘Difficult to Divulge’: The Impact of Organisational Silence around the Menopause pp. 1445-1456

Helen Collins, Susan Helen Barry and Grace

Book Review: Penny Dick, Rethinking Gender Inequalities in Organizations pp. 1457-1458

Charlotte Gascoigne

Eddie Webster, 29/03/1942 – 05/03/2024 pp. 1459-1461

Michael Brookes

Volume 38, issue 4, 2024

A Bourdieusian Exploration of Ethnic Inequalities at Work: The Case of the Nigerian Banking Sector pp. 885-910

Chidozie Umeh, Nelarine Cornelius and James Wallace

Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service pp. 911-929

Andre Clarke and Chris Smith

Avoiding, Resisting and Enduring: A New Typology of Worker Responses to Workplace Violence pp. 930-951

Ellen T Meiser and Eli R Wilson

Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors’ Careers, 1970 to 2016 pp. 952-975

Danat Valizade, Jennifer Tomlinson, Daniel Muzio, Andy Charlwood and Sundeep Aulakh

‘Basically He’s a Pet, Not a Working Dog’: Theorising What Therapy Dogs Do in the Workplace pp. 976-997

Nickie Charles and Carol Wolkowitz

How Do Young Workers Perceive Job Insecurity? Legitimising Frames for Precarious Work in England and Germany pp. 998-1020

Vera Trappmann, Charles Umney, Christopher J McLachlan, Alexandra Seehaus and Laura Cartwright

Gender, Money, and Sexuality: An Exploration into the Relational Work of Pakistani Khwajasiras pp. 1021-1040

Muhammad Junaid Ashraf and Daniela Pianezzi

Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success pp. 1041-1061

David J Bailey

Does College Prestige Matter? Asian CEOs and High-Skilled Immigrant Hiring in the US pp. 1062-1086

Eunbi Kim

Exploring Disability Disadvantage in Hiring: A Factorial Survey among Norwegian Employers pp. 1087-1106

Stine Berre

Caring in the Gig Economy: A Relational Perspective of Decent Work pp. 1107-1127

Maria Hameed Khan, Jannine Williams, Penny Williams and Robyn Mayes

The Influence of Work–Family Conflict and Enhancement on the Wellbeing of the Self-Employed and Their Spouses: A Dyadic Analysis pp. 1128-1147

Safiya Mukhtar Alshibani, Doina Olaru and Thierry Volery

Ambivalent Bias at Work: Managers’ Perceptions of Older Workers across Organizational Contexts pp. 1148-1171

Hila Axelrad, Alexandra Kalev and Noah Lewin-Epstein

Volume 38, issue 3, 2024

Framing Unions and Nurses pp. 579-595

Susan Cake

Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery Drivers in France pp. 596-614

Pétronille Rème-Harnay

Temporary Migrants as Dehumanised ‘Other’ in the Time of COVID-19: We’re All in This Together? pp. 615-635

Dimitria Groutsis, Annika Kaabel and Chris F Wright

Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media? Employee Social-Media Groups as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan pp. 636-656

Syed Imran Saqib, Matthew M C Allen, Miguel Martínez Lucio and Maria Allen

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 pp. 657-683

Xavier St-Denis and Matissa Hollister

Making Markets Material: Enactments, Resistances, and Erasures of Materiality in the Graduate Labour Market pp. 684-704

Olga Loza and Philip Roscoe

Matching Candidates to Culture: How Assessments of Organisational Fit Shape the Hiring Process pp. 705-722

Gerbrand Tholen

Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States pp. 723-743

Ashley Baber

Trans People in the Workplace: Possibilities for Subverting Heteronormativity pp. 744-765

David Watson, Angelo Benozzo and Roberta Fida

The Equality Hurdle: Resolving the Welfare State Paradox pp. 766-786

Erling Barth, Liza Reisel and Kjersti Misje Østbakken

Employment Discrimination against Indigenous People with Tribal Marks in Nigeria: The Painful Face of Stigma pp. 787-808

Toyin Ajibade Adisa, Chima Mordi and Andrew R Timming

Unpromising Futures: Early-Career GPs’ Narrative Accounts of Meaningful Work during a Professional Workforce Crisis pp. 809-825

Louise Laverty, Katherine Checkland and Sharon Spooner

Technological Change, Tasks and Class Inequality in Europe pp. 826-851

Carlos J Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal and Sergio Torrejón Perez

Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Germany pp. 852-870

Lisa de Vries and Stephanie Steinmetz

‘A Good Death’: One Hospice Chaplain’s Approach to End-of-Life Care pp. 871-880

Rachael N Pettigrew and Madison Cawdor

Book Review: Karen Levy, Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace pp. 881-882

Stephen J Frenkel

Volume 38, issue 2, 2024

Between Settlement and Mobilization: Political Logics of Intra-Organizational Union Communication on Social Media pp. 299-317

Nana Wesley Hansen and Mark Friis Hau

The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the State in France pp. 318-338

Caroline Bertron, Anne-Elise Vélu, Hélène Buisson-Fenet and Xavier Dumay

The Role of Community Organisations in the Collective Mobilisation of Migrant Workers: The Importance of a ‘Community’-Oriented Perspective pp. 339-357

Joyce Jiang and Marek Korczynski

Towards ‘Racialising’ the Union Agenda on the Front Lines of Healthcare Professions pp. 358-376

Gill Kirton and Cécile Guillaume

Inter-Union Solidarity and Strategic Group Identity: Insights from Works Councils in the French Car Industry pp. 377-398

Ruth Reaney and Niall Cullinane

Work Therapy: Extractive Labour as Therapeutic Intervention pp. 399-417

Erin Hatton

How Does Precarious Employment Affect Mental Health? A Scoping Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Evidence from Western Economies pp. 418-441

Annie Irvine and Nikolas Rose

Higher Rates of Bullying Reported by ‘White’ Males: Gender and Ethno-Racial Intersections and Bullying in the Workplace pp. 442-460

Tina G Patel, Daiga KamerÄ de and Luke Carr

Education-Occupation Linkage in the Highly-Educated Workforce: Patterns and Sources of Difference by Race/Ethnicity pp. 461-482

Yao Lu, Xiaoguang Li and Benjamin Elbers

Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in Rehabilitation Work with Robots pp. 483-504

Angelo Gasparre and Lia Tirabeni

Beyond the Dormitory Labour Regime: Comparing Chinese and Indian Workplace–Residence Systems as Strategies of Migrant Labour Control pp. 505-526

Charlotte Goodburn and Soumya Mishra

The Impact of Remote Work on Managerial Compliance: Changes in the Control Regime over Line Managers pp. 527-548

Francisca Gutiérrez-Crocco, Angel Martin-Caballero and Andrés Godoy

Goldin’s Last Chapter on the Gender Pay Gap: An Exploratory Analysis Using Italian Data pp. 549-572

Sergio Destefanis, Fernanda Mazzotta and Lavinia Parisi

Between Status and Stigma: Ethnographies of Emergency Medical Services pp. 573-576

Matthew Joseph Brannan

Volume 38, issue 1, 2024

Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective: How, Where and Why Do Platform Workers Protest? pp. 3-26

Charles Umney, Mark Stuart, Ioulia Bessa, Simon Joyce, Denis Neumann and Vera Trappmann

The Dynamics of Control of Migrant Agency Workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the Enterprising-Self pp. 27-43

Chloe Tarrabain and Robyn Thomas

Trade Union Solidarity in Crisis: The Generative Tensions of Worker Solidarities in Argentina pp. 44-62

Adam Fishwick and Lucila D’Urso

Reconceptualising Work and Employment in Complex Productive Configurations pp. 63-82

Martine D’Amours, Leticia Pogliaghi, Guy Bellemare, Louise Briand and Frédéric Hanin

Hiring Temps but Losing Perms? Temporary Worker Inflows and Voluntary Turnover of Permanent Employees pp. 83-102

Rocio Bonet, Marta Elvira and Stefano Visintin

Wage Theft and the Struggle over the Working Day in Hospitality Work: A Typology of Unpaid Labour Time pp. 103-121

Matthew Cole, Mark Stuart, Kate Hardy and David Spencer

Neither Employee nor Contractor: A Case Study of Employment Relations between Riders and Platform-Based Food-Delivery Firms in Taiwan pp. 122-139

Bo-Yi Lee

Advancing Workers’ Rights in the Gig Economy through Discursive Power: The Communicative Strategies of Indie Unions pp. 140-160

Davide Però and John Downey

A Relational Work Perspective on the Gig Economy: Doing Creative Work on Digital Labour Platforms pp. 161-179

Ana Alacovska, Eliane Bucher and Christian Fieseler

Vice-Chancellor Pay and Performance: The Moderating Effect of Vice-Chancellor Characteristics pp. 180-205

Mohamed H Elmagrhi and Collins Ntim

The Scarring Effect of First Job Precarity: New Evidence from a Panel Study in Hong Kong pp. 206-225

Duoduo Xu, Shuheng Jin, Ngai Pun, Jiao Guo and Xiaogang Wu

Disguising ‘Taking Money Out of a Firm’: Disconnection and Detrimental Consequences for Workers pp. 226-241

Ian Clark

Gender Composition and the Symbolic Value of Occupations: New Evidence of a U-shaped Relationship between Gender and Occupational Prestige Based on German Microdata pp. 242-261

Sabine Krueger, Christian Ebner and Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt

There and Back Again: Neuro-Diverse Employees, Liminality and Negative Capability pp. 262-278

Louise Nash

‘When the Daily Commute Stops’: A Long-Distance Commuter’s Reflections on Commuting and Telecommuting across the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 279-290

Clive Trusson, Gwen K-W Chen and John Bridger

Book Review: Matt Vidal, Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management pp. 291-293

Paul Stewart