Work, Employment & Society

1987 - 2025

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Volume 26, issue 6, 2012

Working in the other Square Mile: performing and placing sexualized labour in Soho’s sex shops pp. 899-917

Melissa Tyler

The relevance of ideas in a union’s organization of contingent workers: ‘Here come the fairy people!’ pp. 918-934

Deborah Dean

Work, narrative identity and social affiliation pp. 935-950

Karen Foster

Unions, learning, migrant workers and union revitalization in Britain pp. 951-967

Stephen Mustchin

An analysis of the impact of the 2008–9 recession on the provision of training in the UK pp. 968-986

Alan Felstead, Francis Green and Nick Jewson

Ethnic penalties in graduate level over-education, unemployment and wages: evidence from Britain pp. 987-1006

Anthony Rafferty

Not all that it might seem: why job satisfaction is worth studying despite it being a poor summary measure of job quality pp. 1007-1018

Andrew Brown, Andy Charlwood and David A Spencer

The story of a ‘boss man’, his community and the 1984 miners’ strike pp. 1019-1027

Sharon C Bolton and Jack Ditchburn

Volume 26, issue 5, 2012

Who rides the glass escalator? Gender, race and nationality in the national nursing assistant study pp. 699-715

Kim Price-Glynn and Carter Rakovski

Self-employment, work-family time and the gender division of labour pp. 716-734

Lyn Craig, Abigail Powell and Natasha Cortis

Knowledge work: gender-blind or gender-biased? pp. 735-754

Catherine Truss, Edel Conway, Alessia d’Amato, Gráinne Kelly, Kathy Monks, Enda Hannon and Patrick C Flood

Too old to work, or too young to retire? The pervasiveness of age norms in Western Europe pp. 755-771

Jonas Radl

De-collectivization and employment problems: the experiences of minority ethnic workers seeking help through Citizens Advice pp. 772-788

Jane Holgate, Anna Pollert, Janroj Keles and Leena Kumarappan

Bringing social institutions into global value chain analysis: the case of salmon farming in Chile pp. 789-805

Helen Rainbird and Paulina Ramirez

Job preferences and the intrinsic quality of work: the changing attitudes of British employees 1992–2006 pp. 806-821

Duncan Gallie, Alan Felstead and Francis Green

Government reforms, performance management and the labour process: the case of officers in the UK probation service pp. 822-838

Jenny Gale

Confucian HRM or unitarism with Chinese characteristics? A study of worker attitudes to work reform and management in three state-owned enterprises pp. 839-856

Andy Danford and Wei Zhao

Political Congruence and Trade Union Renewal pp. 857-868

Martin Upchurch, Richard Croucher and Matt Flynn

Volume 26, issue 4, 2012

‘Winners’ and ‘losers’: the impact of education, ethnicity and gender on Muslims in the British labour market pp. 556-573

Nabil Khattab

Understanding the ethnic pay gap in Britain pp. 574-587

Malcolm Brynin and Ayse Güveli

Working in large food retailers in France and the USA: the key role of institutions pp. 588-605

Philippe Askenazy, Jean-Baptiste Berry, Françoise Carré, Sophie Prunier-Poulmaire and Chris Tilly

A new form of union organizing in Japan? Community unions and the case of the McDonald’s ‘McUnion’ pp. 606-622

Tony Royle and Edson Urano

Individual employment rights and the renewal of economic citizenship: lessons from the Rights Commissioners in Ireland pp. 623-637

Deborah Hann and Paul Teague

Housework conflict and divorce: a multi-level analysis pp. 638-656

Leah Ruppanner

Non-traditional dual earners in Norway: when does she work at least as much as he? pp. 657-675

Ragni Hege Kitterød and Marit Rønsen

The demands and challenges of being a retail store manager: ‘Handcuffed to the front doors’ pp. 676-684

Andrew Smith and Fiona Elliott

Volume 26, issue 3, 2012

Those who are in the gutter look at the stars? Explaining perceptions of labour market opportunities among European young adults pp. 379-395

Tim Reeskens and Wim van Oorschot

Issue ownership, unemployment and support for government intervention pp. 396-411

Tor G Jakobsen and Ola Listhaug

Young women on the margins of the labour market pp. 412-428

Karen Escott

A job, a dream or a trap? Multiple meanings for encore careers pp. 429-446

Mary Simpson, Margaret Richardson and Theodore E Zorn

Older employees under pressure? Theorizing reasons for declining commitment pp. 447-463

Michael White

Flexible friends? Flexible working time arrangements, blurred work-life boundaries and friendship pp. 464-480

Vivi Bach Pedersen and Suzan Lewis

Teachers, workforce remodelling and the challenge to labour process analysis pp. 481-496

Bob Carter and Howard Stevenson

Managing people ‘spiritually’: a Bourdieusian critique pp. 497-513

Ken Kamoche and Ashly H Pinnington

Maternal employment and gender role attitudes: dissonance among British men and women in the transition to parenthood pp. 514-530

Pia Schober and Jacqueline Scott

The Big Society, values and co-operation pp. 531-541

Fiona Wilson and Donald MacLean

Volume 26, issue 2, 2012

Work beyond employment: representations of informal economic activities pp. 1-10

Colin Williams and Sara Nadin

Professional call centres, professional workers and the paradox of the algorithm: the case of telenursing pp. 195-210

Bob Russell

Professionalism ‘from below’: mobilization potential in Indian call centres pp. 211-227

Brandon Vaidyanathan

The open-plan academy: space, control and the undermining of professional identity pp. 228-245

Chris Baldry and Alison Barnes

Collaborating in a competitive world: musicians’ working lives and understandings of entrepreneurship pp. 246-261

Susan Coulson

Breaks in employment due to childcare in the Czech Republic before and after 1989 pp. 262-277

Marie Valentova

Gender and ethnic differences in occupational positions and earnings among nurses and engineers in Norway: identical educational choices, unequal outcomes pp. 278-295

Hilde Karlsen

Women’s equality in the Scandinavian academy: a distant dream? pp. 296-313

Cathrine Seierstad and Geraldine Healy

A service union’s innovation dilemma: limitations on creative action in German industrial relations pp. 314-330

Ursula Holtgrewe and Virginia Doellgast

Speaking allowed? Workplace regulation of regional dialect pp. 331-348

Elizabeth Eustace

Using equality to challenge austerity: new actors, old problems pp. 349-359

Hazel Conley

Samantha Velluti, New Governance and the European Employment Strategy and Stella Vettori (ed.), Ageing Populations and Changing Labour Markets: Social and Economic Impacts of the Demographic Time Bomb pp. 360-363

Clara Morgan

Book review: Jacqueline Scott, Rosemary Crompton and Clare Lyonette (eds), Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints pp. 364-365

Tessa Wright

Book review: Michael W Kramer, Organizational Socialization: Joining and Leaving Organizations pp. 366-367

Gertrude Iranganie Hewapathirana

Book review: J Kirk and C Wall, Work and Identity: Historical and Cultural Contexts pp. 367-369

Michelle Addison

Book review: Carole Thornley, Steve Jefferys and Beatrice Appay (eds), Globalization and Precarious Forms of Production and Employment: Challenges for Workers and Unions pp. 369-370

Tony Royle

Volume 26, issue 1, 2012

Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society: different voices, same language pp. 5-9

Irena Grugulis, Mark Stuart, Chris Forde, Ian Kirkpatrick, Robert Mackenzie and Jennifer Tomlinson

Financial stress and the long-term outcomes of job loss pp. 10-25

Sally A Weller

Life after Burberry: shifting experiences of work and non-work life following redundancy pp. 26-41

Paul Blyton and Jean Jenkins

Ageing, skills and participation in work-related training in Britain: assessing the position of older workers pp. 42-60

Jesus Canduela, Matthew Dutton, Steve Johnson, Colin Lindsay, Ronald McQuaid and Robert Raeside

Gender, age and ageism: experiences of women managers in Finland and Scotland pp. 61-77

Marjut Jyrkinen and Linda McKie

Working past 65 in the UK and the USA: segregation into ‘Lopaq’ occupations? pp. 78-94

David Lain

‘Monday will never be the same again’: the transformation of employment and work in a public-private partnership pp. 95-110

Andrew Smith

The back office goes global: exploring connections and contradictions in shared service centres pp. 111-127

Debra Howcroft and Helen Richardson

The social construction of professionalism among organizers and senior organizers in a UK trade union pp. 128-144

Denise Thursfield

Civil society organizations and trade unions: cooperation, conflict, indifference pp. 145-160

Edmund Heery, Steve Williams and Brian Abbott

Trade unions and action research pp. 161-171

Tony Huzzard and Hans Björkman