Work, Employment & Society

1987 - 2025

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Volume 37, issue 6, 2023

Manufacturing Managerial Compliance: How Firms Align Managers with Corporate Interest pp. 1443-1461

Devika Narayan

Why Female Employees Do Not Earn More under a Female Manager: A Mixed-Method Study pp. 1462-1479

Margriet van Hek and Tanja van der Lippe

Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets pp. 1480-1496

Robert MacKenzie and Christopher J McLachlan

Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism pp. 1497-1516

Anita Hammer and Ayman Adham

Radical Change and Institutional Resilience: The Case of Labour Market Reforms in Southern Europe pp. 1517-1543

Ignacio à Lvarez, Jesús Cruces and Francisco Trillo

Recoupling Corporate Culture with New Political Discourse in China’s Platform Economy: The Case of Alibaba pp. 1544-1564

Tommy Tse and Xiaotian Li

Conceptualising Work as a ‘Safe Space’ for Negotiating LGBT Identities: Navigating Careers in the Construction Sector pp. 1565-1582

Sarah Barnard, Andrew Dainty, Sian Lewis and Andreas Culora

‘Finally, We Are Well, Stable’: Perception of Agency in the Biographies of Precarious Migrant Workers pp. 1583-1604

Lucie Trlifajová and Lenka Formánková

Predicting Child-Labour Risks by Norms in India pp. 1605-1626

Jihye Kim, Wendy Olsen and Arkadiusz Wiśniowski

Modes of Incorporation: The Inclusion of Migrant Academics in the UK pp. 1627-1645

Toma Pustelnikovaite and Shiona Chillas

Invisible Room Attendants: Outsourcing as a Dispositive of (In)visibility and the Resistance of Las Kellys in Spain pp. 1646-1663

Alan Valenzuela-Bustos, Ana Gálvez-Mozo and Verna Alcalde-Gonzalez

‘I Had to Take a Casual Contract and Work One Day a Week’: Students’ Experiences of Lengthy University Placements as Drivers of Precarity pp. 1664-1680

Nicole Oke, Lisa Hodge, Heather McIntyre and Shelley Turner

Between Frustration and Invigoration: Women Talking about Digital Technology at Work pp. 1681-1698

Sarah Mosseri, Ariadne Vromen, Rae Cooper and Elizabeth Hill

Managerial Technique and Worker Subjectivity in Dialogue: Understanding Overwork in China’s Internet Industry pp. 1699-1716

Xiaotian Li

Jon Cruddas, The Dignity of Labour, and Matthew Taylor, Do We Have To Work? Delivering Good Work for All pp. 1717-1722

Chris Warhurst

Book Reviews: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads to (Self-)Exploitation pp. 1723-1724

Elsie Foeken

Book Reviews: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour pp. 1724-1726

Elena Shulzhenko

Book Reviews: Virginia Doellgast, Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries pp. 1726-1728

Stephen J Frenkel

Thank You to Referees pp. 1729-1733

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Volume 37, issue 5, 2023

‘Bullshit’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless pp. 1123-1146

Simon Walo

Learning about Pay at Work: A Labour Process Approach to Pay Transparency pp. 1147-1164

Fuk Ying Tse

Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers’ Temporary Work pp. 1165-1185

Susan McGrath-Champ, Scott Fitzgerald, Mihajla Gavin, Meghan Stacey and Rachel Wilson

Developing or Degrading Young Workers? How Business Strategy and the Labour Process Shape Job Quality across Different Industrial Sectors in England pp. 1186-1205

Edward Yates

The Making of the Academic Precariat: Labour Activism and Collective Identity-Formation among Precarious Researchers in Germany pp. 1206-1225

Aslı Vatansever

Union Coalitions and Strategic Framing: The Case of the Agricultural Advisory Panel for Wales pp. 1226-1243

Leon Gooberman and Marco Hauptmeier

Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes pp. 1244-1260

Clary Krekula and Stefan Karlsson

Conceptualising ‘Meta-Work’ in the Context of Continuous, Global Mobility: The Case of Digital Nomadism pp. 1261-1278

Jeremy Aroles, Claudine Bonneau and Shabneez Bhankaraully

Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space pp. 1279-1298

Cristina Inversi, Tony Dundon and Lucy-Ann Buckley

Gender in the Flesh: Allostatic Load as the Embodiment of Stressful, Gendered Work in Canadian Police Communicators pp. 1299-1320

Arija Birze, Elise Paradis, Cheryl Regehr, Vicki LeBlanc and Gillian Einstein

Migrants and Undeclared Employment within the European Construction Sector: Challenging Dichotomous Approaches to Workers’ Agency pp. 1321-1338

Iraklis Dimitriadis

Union Equality Structures and the Challenge of Democratic Legitimacy: The Case of the Fire Brigades Union pp. 1339-1358

Tessa Wright, Sian Moore and Phil Taylor

Gurkha Warriors as Entrepreneurs in Britain: A Social Anchoring Lens on Martial Heritage and Migrant Enterprises pp. 1359-1376

Pawan Adhikari, Shovita Dhakal Adhikari, Shoba Arun and Thankom Arun

From Unwoven Societal Relationships to a Broad-Based Movement? Union Power in Societal Networks in Quebec (Canada) pp. 1377-1394

Lorenzo Frangi, Anthony C Masi and Bénédicte Poirier

Is Rising Self-Employment Associated with Material Deprivation in the UK? pp. 1395-1418

Andrew Henley

Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Work, Employment and Society: Extending the Debate on Organisational Involvement in/Responsibilities around Fertility and Reproduction pp. 1419-1433

Krystal Wilkinson, Clare Mumford and Michael Carroll

Book Review: Jana Costas, Dramas of Dignity: Cleaners in the Corporate Underworld of Berlin pp. 1434-1435

Stephen J Frenkel

Book review: Stephen Ackroyd and Paul Thompson, Organisational Misbehaviour pp. 1435-1437

Alex J Wood

Book Review: Wilfredo Alvarez, Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility, Communication, and Immigrant Labor pp. 1437-1439

Frances Myers

Book Review: Kenneth Abrahamsson and Richard Ennals (eds), Sustainable Work in Europe: Concepts, Conditions, Challenges pp. 1439-1440

Joern Janssen

Volume 37, issue 4, 2023

Cracking IT: Negotiating Working-Class Gender Capital through Group Enterprises in India pp. 823-840

Shoba Arun and Thankom Arun

‘The Biggest Problem We Are Facing Is the Running Away Problem’: Recruitment and the Paradox of Facilitating the Mobility of Immobile Workers pp. 841-857

Katharine Jones, Leena Ksaifi and Colin Clark

Professionalization and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Comparative Study on German and US Job Requirements in CSR pp. 858-876

Diana Benzinger and Michael Muller-Camen

Wage Differences between Polish and Romanian Intra-EU Migrants in a Flexi-Secure Labour Market: An Over-Time Perspective pp. 877-896

Jonas Felbo-Kolding and Janine Leschke

Unpacking Super-Exploitation in the 21st Century: The Struggles of Haitian Workers in Brazil pp. 897-915

Francis Portes Virginio, Paul Stewart and Brian Garvey

Marketisation and Regulatory Labour in Frontline Disability Work pp. 916-933

Georgia van Toorn and Natasha Cortis

Fragmented Capital and (the Loss of) Control over Posted Workers: A Case Study in the Belgian Meat Industry pp. 934-951

Anne Theunissen, Patrizia Zanoni and Koen Van Laer

Embedded Strangers in One’s Own Job? Freelance Interpreters’ Invisible Work: A Practice Theory Approach pp. 952-971

Deborah Giustini

From Crunch to Grind: Adopting Servitization in Project-Based Creative Work pp. 972-990

Johanna Weststar and Louis-Étienne Dubois

Employer Participation in Active Labour Market Policies in the United Kingdom and Denmark: The Effect of Employer Associations as Social Networks and the Mediating Role of Collective Voice pp. 991-1012

Danat Valizade, Jo Ingold and Mark Stuart

Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations pp. 1013-1031

Petr Mezihorak, Annalisa Murgia, Paolo Borghi and Mathilde Mondon-Navazo

Refugee Subentrepreneurship: The Emergence of a Liquid Cage pp. 1032-1051

Deema Refai and Gerard McElwee

‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace pp. 1052-1069

Jane Maddison, Jenni Brooks, Katherine Graham and Yvonne Birks

China and the Internationalisation of the Sociology of Contemporary Work and Employment pp. 1070-1086

Eleonore Kofman, Maggy Lee and Tommy Tse

Rethinking Mobilization Theory for Union Revitalization within the SSA Theory Framework pp. 1087-1098

Sadık Kılıç

Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention pp. 1099-1111

Niels van Doorn, Fabian Ferrari and Mark Graham

Book Review: Johan Alvehus, The Logic of Professionalism: Work and Management in Professional Service Organizations pp. 1112-1113

Stephen J Frenkel

Book Review: Raven Bowen, Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side Hustle pp. 1114-1115

Fabio Cescon

Book Review: Lars Meier, Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class pp. 1115-1117

Bishnuprasad Mohapatra

Book Review: William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams (eds), Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies pp. 1117-1118

Konstantinos Kerasovitis

Correction Notice: Doing Double Time: Women, Incarceration and Employment Discrimination pp. 1119-1119

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Volume 37, issue 3, 2023

Gender Attitudes and Occupational Aspirations in Germany: Are Young Men Prepared for the Jobs of the Future? pp. 571-587

Jenny Chesters

‘Chatting Shit’ in the Jobcentre: Navigating Workfare Policy at the Street-Level pp. 588-605

Jamie Redman

Old Media, New Gigs: The Discursive Construction of the Gig Economy in Australian News Media pp. 606-624

Luci Pangrazio, Cameron Bishop and Fiona Lee

Self-Employed Women in Europe: Lack of Opportunity or Forced by Necessity? pp. 625-644

Mónica Ferrín

‘There Is Nothing Wrong with Me’: The Materialisation of Disability in Sheltered Employment pp. 645-664

Gemma L Bend and Vincenza Priola

Adaptation Trajectories of Dismissed Workers: A Critical Case Study of the Lithuanian Radio-Electronics Sector pp. 665-684

Žilvinas Martinaitis, Audronė Sadauskaitė and Mariachiara Barzotto

The Evolution of Professionalism as a Mode of Regulation: Evidence from the United States pp. 685-702

Ian Kirkpatrick, Sundeep Aulakh and Daniel Muzio

Navigating the Perilous Waters of Partisan Scholarship: Participatory Action Research (PAR) with the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) pp. 703-720

Huw Thomas and Peter Turnbull

‘I Find it Daunting. . . That I’m Gonna Have to Deal with This until 60’: Extended Working Lives and the Sustainable Employability of Operational Firefighters pp. 721-739

Valerie Egdell, Rima Hussein, Deborah Harrison, Anna Katharina Bader and Rob Wilson

Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker pp. 740-756

Kaja Larsen Østerud

Conceptualising ‘Within-Group Stigmatisation’ among High-Status Workers pp. 757-775

Matthew Bamber, John McCormack and Brent J Lyons

Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services pp. 776-793

Suzanne Mills and Benjamin Owens

Gendered Housework: Spousal Relative Income, Parenthood and Traditional Gender Identity Norms pp. 794-813

Joanna Syrda

Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.), Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education pp. 814-815

Emily Yarrow

Book Review: Chris Baldry and Jeff Hyman, Sustainable Work and the Environmental Crisis: The Link between Labour and Climate Change pp. 816-817

Rahul Singh

Volume 37, issue 2, 2023

Who Did You Meet at the Venice Biennale? Education-to-Work Transition Enhancers for Aspiring Arts Professionals in Australia pp. 315-332

Caitlin Vincent, Hilary Glow, Katya Johanson and Bronwyn Coate

Women’s Attrition from Male-Dominated Workplaces in Norway: The Importance of Numerical Minority Status, Motherhood and Class pp. 333-351

Aleksander Å Madsen, Idunn Brekke and Silje Bringsrud Fekjær

Welfare, Work and the Conditions of Social Solidarity: British Campaigns to Defend Healthcare and Social Security pp. 352-372

Genevieve Coderre-LaPalme, Ian Greer and Lisa Schulte

Gender Role Attitudes and Labour Market Behaviours: Do Attitudes Contribute to Gender Differences in Employment in Germany? pp. 373-393

Torsten Lietzmann and Corinna Frodermann

Superfluous Jobs in Extractive Industries: The Usefulness/Uselessness of Job Creation after Dispossession pp. 394-411

Sara Geenen and Mollie Gleiberman

From Flexible Labour to ‘Sticky Labour’: A Tracking Study of Workers in the Food-Delivery Platform Economy of China pp. 412-431

Ping Sun, Julie Yujie Chen and Uma Rani

The Socio-Materiality of Dirty Work: A Critical Realist Perspective pp. 432-448

Anna Galazka and Joe O’Mahoney

Managing Health and Well-Being in SMEs through an Adviceline: A Typology of Managerial Behaviours pp. 449-466

Raffaella Valsecchi, Neil Anderson, Maria Elisavet Balta and John Harrison

Retirement in Western Germany – How Workplace Tasks Influence Its Timing pp. 467-485

Antje Mertens and Laura Romeu-Gordo

From Presence to Influence: Gender, Nationality and Network Centrality of Corporate Directors pp. 486-504

Florence Villesèche and Evis Sinani

Temporary Contracts, Employment Trajectories and Dualisation: A Comparison of Norway and Sweden pp. 505-524

Tomas Berglund, Roy A Nielsen, Olof Reichenberg and Jørgen Svalund

Experiencing Gender Regimes: Accounts of Women Professors in Mexico, the UK and Sweden pp. 525-544

Laurie Cohen, Joanne Duberley and Beatriz Adriana Bustos Torres

Whistleblowing as a Career Crisis: Recovering from Retaliatory Job Loss through a Process of Bifurcation pp. 545-562

Emilie Hennequin

Book Review: Eva Fodor, The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary pp. 563-564

Zuzana DanÄ Ã­ková

Book Review: Calla Hummel, Why Informal Workers Organize: Contentious Politics, Enforcement, and the State pp. 564-566

Stephen J Frenkel

Volume 37, issue 1, 2023

Empowered in Business or Penalised in Marriage: Experiences of Single Female Entrepreneurs in China pp. 3-19

Jing Song and Lulu Li

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 pp. 20-38

Ye Liu

Catch-22: Token Women Trying to Reconcile Impossible Contradictions between Organisational and Societal Expectations pp. 39-57

Maryam Aldossari, Sara Chaudhry, Ahu Tatli and Cathrine Seierstad

The Employment Trajectories of Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence pp. 58-77

Kathryn Showalter, Susan Yoon and Logan Tk

Does Overwork Attenuate the Motherhood Earnings Penalty among Full-Time Workers? pp. 78-96

Eunjeong Paek

Structural Change Shapes Career Mobility Opportunities: An Analysis of Cohorts, Gender and Parental Class pp. 97-116

Dirk Witteveen and Johan Westerman

The Association between Family Care and Paid Work among Women in Germany: Does the Household Economic Context Matter? pp. 117-136

Ulrike Ehrlich

A Bridge over Troubled Borders: Social Class and the Interplay between Work and Life pp. 137-156

Samantha Evans and Madeleine Wyatt

Working from Home in Urban China during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assemblages of Work-Family Interference pp. 157-175

Li Sun, Tao Liu and Weiquan Wang

Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict pp. 176-195

Inga Laß and Mark Wooden

Influences on Employment Transitions around the Birth of the First Child: The Experience of Italian Mothers pp. 196-214

Francesca Fiori and Giorgio Di Gessa

Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings pp. 215-235

Benedikt Gerst and Christian Grund

Flexible Working and the Division of Housework and Childcare: Examining Divisions across Arrangement and Occupational Lines pp. 236-256

Heejung Chung and Cara Booker

The ‘Grey Zone’ at the Interface of Work and Home: Theorizing Adaptations Required by Precarious Work pp. 257-273

Valeria Pulignano and Glenn Morgan

Participation in Job-Related Training: Is There a Parenthood Training Penalty? pp. 274-292

Gundula Zoch

Father Parental Leave Use in Spain: The Role of the Female Partner Labour Situation pp. 293-305

Almudena Moreno-Mínguez, à ngel L Martín-Román and Alfonso Moral

Decline of the Centrality of Work? Critique of a Contemporary Ideology pp. 306-311

Francesco Della Puppa