Work, Employment & Society

1987 - 2025

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Volume 27, issue 6, 2013

Skill as a relational construct: hiring practices from the standpoint of Chinese immigrant engineers in Canada pp. 915-931

Hongxia Shan

Trade-based skills versus occupational capacity: the example of bricklaying in Europe pp. 932-951

Linda Clarke, Christopher Winch and Michaela Brockmann

What we know and what we need to know about graduate skills pp. 952-963

Susan James, Chris Warhurst, Gerbrand Tholen and Johanna Commander

‘The future’s bright, the future’s mobile’: a study of Apple and Google mobile application developers pp. 964-981

Birgitta Bergvall-KÃ¥reborn and Debra Howcroft

Understanding changing disability-related employment gaps in Britain 1998–2011 pp. 982-1003

Melanie Jones and Victoria Wass

‘Being Santa Claus’: the pursuit of recognition in interactive service work pp. 1004-1020

Philip Hancock

Exploring the interplay between Buddhism and career development: a study of highly skilled women workers in Sri Lanka pp. 1021-1038

Weerahannadige Dulini Anuvinda Fernando and Laurie Cohen

The customer in the sociology of work: different ways of going beyond the management–worker dyad pp. NP1-NP7

Marek Korczynski

Volume 27, issue 5, 2013

‘Stressed out of my box’: employee experience of lean working and occupational ill-health in clerical work in the UK public sector pp. 747-767

Bob Carter, Andy Danford, Debra Howcroft, Helen Richardson, Andrew Smith and Phil Taylor

Customer abuse to service workers: an analysis of its social creation within the service economy pp. 768-784

Marek Korczynski and Claire Evans

Emotion management from the client’s perspective: the case of personal home care pp. 785-801

Cynthia J Cranford and Diana Miller

The quality of healthcare jobs: can intrinsic rewards compensate for low extrinsic rewards? pp. 802-822

Jennifer Craft Morgan, Janette Dill and Arne L Kalleberg

Employability of offshore service sector workers in the Philippines: opportunities for upward labour mobility or dead-end jobs? pp. 823-841

Niels Beerepoot and Mitch Hendriks

Firm-level restructuring and union strategies in Europe: local union responses in Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands pp. 842-859

Valeria Pulignano and Paul Stewart

Diverging top and converging bottom: labour flexibilization and changes in career mobility in the USA pp. 860-879

Young-Mi Kim

Why are social scientists still reluctant to embrace email as data? An ethnographic examination of interactions within virtual teams pp. 880-890

Yee Wei (Carol) Au and Abigail Marks

Volume 27, issue 4, 2013

The gender wage gap and its institutional context: a comparative analysis of European graduates pp. 563-580

Moris Triventi

The role of technical progress, professionalization and Christian religion in occupational gender segregation: a cross-national analysis pp. 581-599

Girts Racko and Brendan Burchell

Occupational sex-segregation, specialized human capital and wages: evidence from Britain pp. 600-620

Francisco Perales

Work, welfare and gender inequalities: an analysis of activation strategies for partnered women in the UK, Australia and Denmark pp. 621-638

Jo Ingold and David Etherington

Age and sex differences in gender role attitudes in Luxembourg between 1999 and 2008 pp. 639-657

Marie Valentova

What is work? Insights from the evolution of state foster care pp. 658-673

Derek Kirton

Workplace injury and voice: a comparison of management and union perceptions pp. 674-693

Andrew M Robinson and Clive Smallman

Access denied: employee control of personal communications at work pp. 694-710

Emily Rose

All work and no pay: consequences of unpaid work in the creative industries pp. 711-721

Sabina Siebert and Fiona Wilson

Book review symposium: Sylvia Walby pp. 722-724

Joan Acker

Book review symposium: Sylvia Walby pp. 724-726

Susan Durbin

Book review symposium: Sylvia Walby pp. 726-728

Val Moghadam

Book review symposium: Response to reviewers of pp. 728-730

Sylvia Walby

Beyond unemployment rates: measuring job quality pp. 731-733

Martin Olsthoorn

Book review: Kate Hardy, Sarah Kingston and Teela Sanders (eds) pp. 734-735

Karin Sardadvar

Book review: Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead pp. 735-737

Michael Gebel

Book review: John Hassard, Leo McCann and Jonathan Morris pp. 737-739

Ödül Bozkurt

Book review: Andrew Dawson and Sean P Holmes (eds) pp. 739-740

Keith Randle

Book review: John W Budd pp. 740-742

Paul Gilfillan

Volume 27, issue 3, 2013

Reflections on work and employment into the 21st century: between equal rights, force decides pp. 379-395

Mark Stuart, Irena Grugulis, Jennifer Tomlinson, Chris Forde and Robert MacKenzie

Unsustainable employment portfolios pp. 396-413

John Buchanan, Gary Dymski, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver and Karel Williams

Women and recession revisited pp. 414-432

Jill Rubery and Anthony Rafferty

The nature of front-line service work: distinctive features and continuity in the employment relationship pp. 433-450

Jacques Bélanger and Paul Edwards

Postfordism as a dysfunctional accumulation regime: a comparative analysis of the USA, the UK and Germany pp. 451-471

Matt Vidal

Financialization and the workplace: extending and applying the disconnected capitalism thesis pp. 472-488

Paul Thompson

Finance versus democracy? Theorizing finance in society pp. 489-507

Sylvia Walby

Work, employment and society through the lens of moral economy pp. 508-525

Sharon C Bolton and Knut Laaser

Ethnographic fallacies: reflections on labour studies in the era of market fundamentalism pp. 526-536

Michael Burawoy

Book review symposium: Scott Lash and John Urry pp. 537-538

Gibson Burrell

Book review symposium: Scott Lash and John Urry pp. 539-540

Miguel Martínez Lucio

Book review symposium: Scott Lash and John Urry pp. 541-542

Ian Greer

Book review symposium: Response to reviewers of pp. 542-546

Scott Lash and John Urry

Volume 27, issue 2, 2013

Commitment and collective identity of long-term union participation: the case of women union leaders in the UK and USA pp. 195-212

Gill Kirton and Geraldine Healy

Reframing workplace relations? Conflict resolution and mediation in a primary care trust pp. 213-231

Richard Saundry, Louise McArdle and Peter Thomas

Partisan, scholarly and active: arguments for an organic public sociology of work pp. 232-243

Paul Brook and Ralph Darlington

‘Because we were living it’: the hidden work of a strike pp. 244-253

Jo McBride, John Stirling and Shirley Winter

The weakest link? Product market strategies, skill and pay in the hotel industry pp. 254-271

Caroline Lloyd, Chris Warhurst and Eli Dutton

The labour market experiences and strategies of young undocumented migrants pp. 272-287

Alice Bloch

The ill-treatment of employees with disabilities in British workplaces pp. 288-307

Ralph Fevre, Amanda Robinson, Duncan Lewis and Trevor Jones

Controlling the uncontrollable: ‘Agile’ teams and illusions of autonomy in creative work pp. 308-325

Damian Hodgson and Louise Briand

Do fathers work fewer paid hours when their female partner is the main or an equal earner? pp. 326-342

Shireen Kanji

A matter of time: young professionals’ experiences of long work hours pp. 343-359

Jane Sturges

Bleak house: pessimism and prescription about management, responsibility and society in the early 21 pp. 360-367

Ian Glover

Book review: Peter Fairbrother, John O’Brien, Michael O’Donnell, Anne Junor and Glynne Williams pp. 368-369

Chris F Wright

Book review: Anita Chan (ed.) pp. 369-371

Xuebing Cao

Book review: David Hesmondhalgh and Sarah Baker pp. 371-372

Sarah B Proctor-Thomson

Book review: Alain Klarsfeld (ed.) pp. 373-374

Jacqueline H Stephenson

Book review: David Card and Alan B Krueger (edited by Randall KQ Akee and Klaus Zimmermann), Wages pp. 374-375

Iasonas Lamprianou

Volume 27, issue 1, 2013

Changing job roles in the Norwegian and UK fitness industry: in search of national institutional effects pp. 3-20

Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne

An explanation of cross-national variation in call centre job quality using institutional theory pp. 21-38

David Holman

Race to the East, race to the bottom? Multi-nationals and industrial relations in two sectors in the Czech Republic pp. 39-55

Guglielmo Meardi, Sonja Strohmer and Franz Traxler

Job loss and its aftermath among managers and professionals: wounded, fragmented and flexible pp. 56-72

Yiannis Gabriel, David E Gray and Harshita Goregaokar

Does the effect of job loss on psychological distress differ by educational level? pp. 73-93

Jornt J Mandemakers and Christiaan WS Monden

Making sense of insecurity: a defence of Richard Sennett’s sociology of work pp. 94-104

Dale Tweedie

The degradation of work and the end of the skilled emotion worker at Aer Lingus: is it all trolley dollies now? pp. 105-121

Caitriona Curley and Tony Royle

Serving and consuming: drink, work and leisure in public houses pp. 122-137

Peter John Sandiford and Diane Seymour

The occurrence and frequency of overnight job travel in the USA pp. 138-152

Yu-Jin Jeong, Anisa M Zvonkovic, Yoshie Sano and Alan C Acock

When culture resists progress: masculine organizational culture and its impacts on the vertical segregation of women in Japanese companies pp. 153-169

Kumiko Nemoto

Book review symposium: Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett pp. 170-171

Andy Charlwood

Book review symposium: Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett pp. 171-173

Nelarine Cornelius

Book review symposium: Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett pp. 174-175

Aidan Regan

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett reply to three reviews of pp. 175-177

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

Book review essay: Dominance by default: neoliberalism’s continuing ascendancy pp. 178-185

George Lafferty

Book review: Jun Imai pp. 186-187

Tony Elger

Book review: Owen Jones pp. 188-189

Karen Lumsden

Book review: Per Skedinger pp. 189-191

Anil Duman

Book review: Charles M Beach, Alan G Green and Christopher Worswick pp. 191-192

Soma Chatterjee