Work, Employment & Society

1987 - 2025

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Volume 39, issue 6, 2025

Voices Beyond the Road: Comparison of Online Employee Voice in Traditional Transport and the Ride-Sharing Industry pp. 1303-1328

Elisabeth Bethge

Bubbles of Belonging at Work: Redrawing Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion in UK Restaurants during Brexit pp. 1329-1350

Laura J Reeves and Emma Bell

Queer Bonds at Work: A Dialectical Approach to Understanding Workplace Relations Among Sexual Minority Employees in Hong Kong pp. 1351-1372

Iris Po Yee Lo

Security Capital in the Field of Work: A Bourdieuian Perspective on Precarity and Social Inequality pp. 1373-1393

Yue Qin

Support or Exploitation? Workfare Implementation and Migrants’ Resistance within the Swiss Reception System pp. 1394-1414

Agnès Aubry

Gender Role Attitudes and the Reproduction of Occupational Sex Segregation: An Analysis of Attitudes towards Women’s Voluntary Childlessness in Europe pp. 1415-1439

Valeria Insarauto and Danilo Bolano

Computer Use and Digital Frustration in German Workplaces: Is There a Gendered Part-Time Gap? pp. 1440-1462

Yvonne Lott and Andreas Hövermann

Organizational Intersectionality: Do Gender and Migration Status Inequalities Reinforce or Offset Each Other in French Workplaces? pp. 1463-1485

Olivier Godechot, Mirna Safi and Matthew Soener

Robotisation and Workforce Dynamics: Analysing Employment and Wage Effects within Manufacturing Establishments pp. 1486-1512

Michael Otto and Martin Abraham

The Activating Welfare State and Precarisation: a Temporal Analysis of the Perceived Unemployment Risk in Switzerland, 1999–2019 pp. 1513-1536

Saro Gibilisco, Monica Budowski and Andreas Hadjar

‘Get on Board or Get Off’: Nosediving Job Quality for Mental Health Providers in the Age of Platform Work pp. 1537-1547

Hannah Johnston and Nelly Slye

Book Review: Belinda Steffan, Women in Work in Mid-Life: Value, Identity and Perceptions pp. 1548-1549

V Kalyani and Kiran Thampi

Book Review: Sonia Bertolini, Valentina Goglio and Dirk Hofäcker, Job Insecurity and Life Courses pp. 1550-1551

Andrew Jenkins

Thank You to Referees pp. 1552-1558

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Volume 39, issue 5, 2025

Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow pp. 1039-1058

Panos Theodoropoulos and Sam Lawton-Westerland

Is Workplace Flexibility Penalised? The Gendered Consequences of Working from Home for the Wages of Parents and Childless Employees in the UK pp. 1059-1081

Johanna Elisabeth Pauliks

Internal Borders and the Shaping of Noncitizen Workers in the Context of Ethnonational and Territorial Conflict pp. 1082-1102

Jonathan Preminger

Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Work from Home on Careers in the Post-Covid Context pp. 1103-1126

Anna Matysiak, Agnieszka Kasperska and Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

Women and the Standard Workweek: Developing a Typology of Work Schedules in the UK pp. 1127-1153

Jennifer Whillans

Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work pp. 1154-1178

Alex J Wood, Nicholas Martindale and Brendan J Burchell

Coercion and Consent under Techno-Economic Despotism: Workers’ Alienation and ‘Liberation’ in the Amazon Warehouse pp. 1179-1200

Miłosz Miszczyński and Patrizia Zanoni

Gender Ideologies and Workplace Diversity Policies: Are Voluntary Women’s Quotas and Mentoring Programmes Associated with Employees’ Gender Ideologies? pp. 1201-1224

Eileen Peters and Anja-Kristin Abendroth

Young is Fun: Examining the Inter-Relations of Play and Age at Work pp. 1225-1246

Cara Reed, Helen C Williams and Katrina Pritchard

‘Lived Capitalisation’: How Speculative Finance Shapes the Social and Financial Lives of ‘Gig’ Workers in Bengaluru, India pp. 1247-1268

Kaveri Medappa

Change and Resistance in the Royal Mail: Dispatches from the 2022/2023 Postal Workers’ Strike pp. 1269-1279

Daniel Evans and Karl Jones

Misclassification, Tipping and the Responsibilisation of Work in the Global South pp. 1280-1289

Simon Pek, Paulina Segarra, Ernesto Rodriguez and Ajnesh Prasad

Book Review: Alan Middleton, The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms pp. 1290-1291

Bishnuprasad Mohapatra

Book Review: Roland Erne, Sabina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabó and Vincenzo Maccarrone, Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency pp. 1292-1293

Ian Greer

Theo Nichols: A Personal Tribute pp. 1294-1297

Peter Armstrong

Volume 39, issue 4, 2025

Content Creation within the Algorithmic Environment: A Systematic Review pp. 787-813

Yin Liang, Jiaming Li, Jeremy Aroles and Edward Granter

How Care Inequalities are Reproduced in ‘Carer-Friendly’ Jobs: The Case of Employer-Led Carer’s Leave pp. 814-835

Camille Allard

Technologies of Self-Care in Precarious Neoliberal Academia: Women Academics’ Craftwork as Strategies of Coping and Complicity pp. 836-858

Jenny K Rodriguez, Maranda Ridgway, Louise Oldridge and Michaela Edwards

Boards for Diversity? A Critical Economic Sociology of British South Asian Senior Leaders’ Experiences of the Executive Level of Football pp. 859-881

Stefan Lawrence, Thomas Fletcher and Daniel Kilvington

Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work pp. 882-903

Jeremy Aroles, Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, John Hassard, William M Foster and Edward Granter

Fields, Frames and Fundamental Rights: The Campaign to Elevate Occupational Safety and Health at the International Labour Organization (ILO) pp. 904-926

Vicente Silva and Huw Thomas

Developing a Standard Measure of Job Quality pp. 927-948

Chris Warhurst, Angela Knox and Sally Wright

Bridging the Gaps in Work Quality Research: A Multi-Level Interdisciplinary Review pp. 949-971

Lisa Chamberlain, Emma Hughes and Rory Donnelly

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 pp. 972-996

Giulia M Dotti Sani, Ariane Bertogg, Janna Besamusca, Mara A Yerkes and Anna Zamberlan

Constellations of Atypical Employment in Couples and Labour Income: Where is Disadvantage Located? pp. 997-1021

Leonie Westhoff

Indirectly Disabled yet Empowered by Revealing Vulnerability pp. 1022-1031

Sophie Hennekam, Mukta Kulkarni and Laura*

Book Review: Peter Ackers, Trade Unions and the British Industrial Relations Crisis: An Intellectual Biography of Hugh Clegg pp. 1032-1033

Horen Voskeritsian

Michael Burawoy, 1947–2025 pp. 1034-1036

Huw Beynon

Volume 39, issue 3, 2025

Who Gains From Organizational Flexibility? Flexible Organizational Practices and Wage Inequality pp. 527-550

Alina Rozenfeld-Kiner and Tali Kristal

Will I Have to Be Reborn? Collective Sensemaking of Stigma among White-Collar Inmates pp. 551-573

Navdeep K Arora, William S Harvey and Thomas J Roulet

Informal Cultures of Resistance and Worker Mobilization: The Case of Migrant Workers in the Italian Logistics Sector pp. 574-595

Gabriella Cioce, Davide Però and Marek Korczynski

Producing ‘The Right Candidate’: The Social Embeddedness of Labour Market Intermediaries for Migrant Workers in the Belgian Construction Sector pp. 596-614

Simon Wuidar, Ludovic Bakebek and William Monteith

Playing with Space to Deal with the Contradictions of Customer Sovereignty: An Ethnography of Service Workers’ Spatial Tactics in Train Stations pp. 615-635

Albane Grandazzi, Oriane Sitte de Longueval and Jean-Baptiste Suquet

‘I am a Scaffolder’: Constructing Safety Knowledge and Machismo in ‘Dirty Work’ pp. 636-656

Ken Kamoche and Kuok Kei Law

Supersizing the Impact of Unions in Downsizing Processes: A Configurational Approach Based on 19 Cases in France pp. 657-680

Vincent Pasquier, Rémi Bourguignon and Géraldine Schmidt

The Discursive Power of Trade Union Leadership: Framing Identity Fields for Public Persuasion pp. 681-702

Kathryn A Boyle

Digitalisation and the Remaking of the Ideal Worker pp. 703-726

Debra Howcroft, Emma Banister, Laura Jarvis-King, Jill Rubery and Isabel Távora

(Doing) Time Is Money: Confinement, Prison Work and the Reproduction of Carceral Capitalism pp. 727-747

Jenna Pandeli and Richard Longman

‘You’d Die if You Didn’t Have Fun’: Interpreting the Experiences of Long-Term Unemployed Men as Bakhtinian Death–Rebirth pp. 748-767

Helen Tracey

‘Your Strike is Affecting Our Children’: Host Community’s Intervention on the Front Line of a University Strike in Southwest Nigeria pp. 768-778

Ibukunolu D Babarinde, Christina L Butler and Enda Hannon

Book Review: Richard Hyman and Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, Towards a European System of Industrial Relations? The ETUC in the Twenty-First Century pp. 779-780

Kunal Jha

Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution pp. 780-782

Ya Guo and Senhu Wang

Volume 39, issue 2, 2025

Exploring Informal Work: Gaining Legitimation through Nudging pp. 267-289

Danny Buckley, Natalia Vershinina and Peter Rodgers

Why Do So Many People Not Vote? Correlates of Participation in Trade Union Strike Ballots pp. 290-310

Ioulia Bessa, Andy Hodder and John Kelly

‘We Are Not All the Same’: The Capacity of Different Groups of Food Delivery Gig Workers to Build Collective and Individual Power Resources pp. 311-335

Pedro Mendonça and Nadia K Kougiannou

Identifying Trust Exchange Dynamics and Constituents of Employee Trust within Management Consulting pp. 336-360

Neve Abgeller, Mark NK Saunders, Reinhard Bachmann and Aneil Mishra

Bearing Psychic Weight and Accountability: Navigating Racism and Microaggressions in Creative Work pp. 361-379

Alanna Stuart and Kim de Laat

Old Habits Die Hard? The Role of Trade Union Identity and Framing Processes in Shaping Strategy pp. 380-403

Genevieve Coderre-LaPalme

Is Any Job Better Than No Job? Utilising Jahoda’s Latent Deprivation Theory to Reconceptualise Underemployment pp. 404-425

Vanessa Beck, Tracey Warren and Clare Lyonette

Structural Labour Market Change and Gender Inequality in Earnings pp. 426-448

Anna Matysiak, Wojciech Hardy and Lucas van der Velde

Neurodivergence and the Persistence of Neurotypical Norms and Inequalities in Educational and Occupational Settings pp. 449-469

Sophie Hennekam, Mukta Kulkarni and Joy E Beatty

Working Time Mismatch and Employee Subjective Well-being across Institutional Contexts: A Job Quality Perspective pp. 470-495

Wanying Ling, Senhu Wang and Zhuofei Lu

Crossers in a Segmented Labour Market: Occupational Advancement and Wage Changes from Semi-Skilled and Unskilled Jobs pp. 496-515

Philip Wotschack and Claire Samtleben

Book Review: Tiziano Bonini and Emiliano Treré, Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight Against Platform Power pp. 516-517

Craig Gent

Book Review: Pablo Pérez-Ahumada, Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile pp. 518-519

Daina Bellido de Luna

Book Review: Denys Gorbach, The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City pp. 520-521

Quinn O’Dowd

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