Work, Employment & Society

1987 - 2025

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Volume 36, issue 6, 2022

The ‘Gender Face’ of Job Insecurity in France: An Individual- and Organizational-Level Analysis pp. 999-1017

Clotilde Coron and Géraldine Schmidt

Trade Unions, Bargaining Coverage and Low Pay: A Multilevel Test of Institutional Effects on Low-Pay Risk in Germany pp. 1018-1037

Chiara Benassi and Tim Vlandas

Who’s Milking It? Scripted Stories of Food Labour pp. 1038-1059

Lucy McCarthy, Anne Touboulic and Jane Glover

Public Service, Private Delivery: Service Workers and the Negotiation of Blurred Boundaries in a Neoliberal State pp. 1060-1077

Asa Maron

Upgrading China through Automation: Manufacturers, Workers and the Techno-Developmental State pp. 1078-1096

Ya-Wen Lei

Staying Down with the Joneses: Differences in the Psychological Cost of Unemployment across Neighbourhoods pp. 1097-1117

Peter Howley and Sarah Knight

Professionalism, Payment by Results and the Probation Service: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Marketisation on Professional Autonomy pp. 1118-1138

Matt Tidmarsh

Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions pp. 1139-1154

Anita Hammer, Janroj Yilmaz Keles and Wendy Olsen

Book Review: Ana Cecilia Dinerstein and Frederick Harry Pitts, A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State between Crisis and Utopia pp. 1155-1156

Daniel S Lacerda

Book Review: Mark Williams, Ying Zhou and Min Zou, Mapping Good Work: The Quality of Working Life across the Occupational Structure pp. 1156-1158

Ruth Elizabeth Slater

Book Review: Stephen R Barley, Work and Technological Change pp. 1158-1160

Deniz Tuncalp

Book Review: Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and Sin Yi Cheung The Death of Human Capital? Its Failed Promise and How to Renew It in an Age of Disruption pp. 1161-1162

Vageesh Vishnoi

Book Review: Nilanjan Raghunath, Shaping the Futures of Work: Proactive Governance and Millennials pp. 1162-1164

Stephen J Frenkel

Thank You to Referees pp. 1165-1168

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Volume 36, issue 5, 2022

Meaningful Work and Sociology: An Introduction to This Themed Issue pp. 791-797

Knut Laaser

Towards a Sociology of Meaningful Work pp. 798-815

Knut Laaser and Jan Ch Karlsson

Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs pp. 816-840

Magdalena Soffia, Alex J Wood and Brendan Burchell

Families under Pressure: The Costs of Vocational Calling, and What Can Be Done about Them pp. 841-857

Stephanos Anastasiadis and Anica Zeyen

Killing Them ‘Softly’ (!): Exploring Work Experiences in Care-Based Animal Dirty Work pp. 858-874

Linda Tallberg and Peter J Jordan

Disabled People Working in the Disability Sector: Occupational Segregation or Personal Fulfilment? pp. 875-892

Anne Revillard

It’s Not Just Sex: Relational Dynamics between Street-Based Sex Workers and Their Regular Customers pp. 893-910

Sharon S Oselin and Katie Hail-Jares

Betwixt and Between: The Invisible Experiences of Volunteers’ Body Work pp. 911-927

Katharine Venter

The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector pp. 928-944

Patricia Ward

Reproductive Work in the Global South: Lived Experiences and Social Relations of Commercial Surrogacy in India pp. 945-966

Madhusree Jana and Anita Hammer

Moral Dilemma of Striking: A Medical Worker’s Response to Job Duty, Public Health Protection and the Politicization of Strikes pp. 967-976

Yao-Tai Li and Jenna Ng

When Values and Ethics of Care Conflict: A Lived Experience in the Roman Catholic Church pp. 977-986

Krystin Zigan, YingFei G Héliot and Alan Le Grys

Book Review: Paul David Harpur, Ableism at Work: Disablement and Hierarchies of Impairment pp. 987-988

Emma Partlow

Book Review: Rebecca WB Lund and Ann Christin E Nilsen (eds), Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region pp. 988-990

Órla Meadhbh Murray

Book Review: Ergin Bulut, A Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry pp. 990-992

Carolyn Hunter

Book Review: Saori Shibata, Contesting Precarity in Japan: The Rise of Nonregular Workers and the New Policy Dissensus pp. 992-993

Stephen Jaros

Book Review: Mike Saks (ed.), Support Workers and the Health Professions in International Perspective: The Invisible Providers of Health Care pp. 993-995

Caroline Murphy

Book Review: Rachael A Woldoff and Robert C Litchfield, Digital Nomads: In Search of Meaningful Work in the New Economy pp. 995-996

Tim Butcher

Volume 36, issue 4, 2022

Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia pp. 591-609

Louise Ritchie, Valerie Egdell, Michael Danson, Mandy Cook, Jill Stavert and Debbie Tolson

Deservingness, Conditionality and Public Perceptions of Work Disability: The Influence of Economic Inequality pp. 610-629

Rossella Ciccia, Declan French, Frank Kee and Mark O’Doherty

Trouble in Direct Payment Personal Assistance Relationships pp. 630-647

Tom Porter, Tom Shakespeare and Andrea Stockl

Residential Care Aides’ Experiences of Workplace Incivility in Long-Term Care pp. 648-664

Heather A Cooke and Jennifer Baumbusch

Emotional Labour and the Autonomy of Dependent Self-Employed Workers: The Limitations of Digital Managerial Control in the Home Credit Sector pp. 665-682

Esme Terry, Abigail Marks, Arek Dakessian and Dimitris Christopoulos

Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations pp. 683-700

Assaf S Bondy

Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: Evidence for European Employees pp. 701-721

Dagmara Nikulin, Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz and Aleksandra Parteka

Disability and Academic Careers: Using the Social Relational Model to Reveal the Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Creating Disability pp. 722-740

Katherine Sang, Thomas Calvard and Jennifer Remnant

Divide and Conquer: Social Assistance Clients’ Competing Frames of Social Justice pp. 741-757

Melissa Sebrechts and Thomas Kampen

Organized Crime and Employment Relations: A Personal Story of ‘Ndrangheta Control on Employment Relations Management Practices in Southern Italy pp. 758-768

Marco Guerci, Roberta Sferrazzo, Federica Cabras, Giovanni Radaelli and Paolo X

‘You Can’t Eat Soap’: Reimagining COVID-19, Work, Family and Employment from the Global South pp. 769-780

Ameeta Jaga and Ariane Ollier-Malaterre

Book Review: Lynne Pettinger, What’s Wrong with Work? pp. 781-782

Karin Sardadvar

Book Review: Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai, Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers pp. 782-784

Charlie Smith

Book Review: Stephen Edgell and Edward Granter, The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work (Third Edition) pp. 784-785

Mihajla Gavin

Volume 36, issue 3, 2022

At Least I’m My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work pp. 391-406

Christina Purcell and Paul Brook

McStrike! Framing, (Political) Opportunity and the Development of a Collective Identity: McDonald’s and the UK Fast-Food Rights Campaign pp. 407-426

Tony Royle and Yvonne Rueckert

Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control pp. 427-444

Louise Ashley

The Making of Cheap Labour across Production and Reproduction: Control and Resistance in the Senegalese Horticultural Value Chain pp. 445-464

Elena Baglioni

Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan pp. 465-484

Syed Imran Saqib, Matthew MC Allen and Geoffrey Wood

Keeping It Quiet? The Micro-Politics of Employee Voice in Company Strategic Decision-Making pp. 485-502

Catherine Casey and Helen Delaney

‘This Is the End’? An Ethnographic Study of Management Control and a New Management Initiative pp. 503-521

Darren McCabe, Sylwia Ciuk and Margaret Gilbert

Labour Controls, Unfreedom and Perpetuation of Slavery on a Tea Plantation pp. 522-538

Khandakar Shahadat and Shahzad Uddin

Workplace Bullying and Intensification of Labour Controls in the Clothing Supply Chain: Post-Rana Plaza Disaster pp. 539-556

Md Shoaib Ahmed and Shahzad Uddin

Organising Against Precarity: The Life of a South African Labour Broker Worker pp. 557-568

Carin Runciman and Khongelani Hlungwani

Too Scared to Go Sick: Precarious Academic Work and ‘Presenteeism Culture’ in the UK Higher Education Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic pp. 569-579

Anastasios Hadjisolomou, Fotios Mitsakis and Steven Gary

Book Review: Sanford M Jacoby, Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank and Jo Carby-Hall and Lourdes Mella Méndez (eds), Labour Law and the Gig Economy: Challenges Posed by the Digitalisation of Labour Processes pp. 580-585

David Jacobs

Book Review: Alex J Wood, Despotism on Demand: How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace pp. 585-587

Alejandro Castillo

Book Review: Kate Kenny, Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory pp. 587-588

Kath Atkinson

Volume 36, issue 2, 2022

Training Regimes and Diversity: Experiences of Young Foreign Employees in Japanese Headquarters pp. 199-216

Harald Conrad and Hendrik Meyer-Ohle

‘We Don’t Have the Same Opportunities as Others’: Shining Bourdieu’s Lens on UK Roma Migrants’ Precarious (Workers’) Habitus pp. 217-234

Patricia Harrison, Helen Collins and Alexandra Bahor

Work Identity Pause and Reactivation: A Study of Cross-Domain Identity Transitions of Trailing Wives in Dubai pp. 235-252

Tatiana S Rowson, Adriana Meyer and Elizabeth Houldsworth

Otherness in the Workplace among Highly Skilled Labour Migrants: Swedes in Germany and the UK pp. 253-270

Ylva Wallinder

Migrant Entrepreneurship Enablers: From Chance Encounters to Community Development pp. 271-289

Lisa Berntsen, Tesseltje de Lange, Ivana Kalaš and Romy Hanoeman

Business or Pleasure? A Comparison of Migrant and Non-Migrant Uber Drivers in Australia pp. 290-309

Peter James Holtum, Elnaz Irannezhad, Greg Marston and Renuka Mahadevan

Algorithmic Integration and Precarious (Dis)Obedience: On the Co-Constitution of Migration Regime and Workplace Regime in Digitalised Manufacturing and Logistics pp. 310-327

Simon Schaupp

Labour Market Segmentation within Ethnic Economies: The Ethnic Penalty for Invisible Kurdish Migrants in the United Kingdom pp. 328-344

Mehmet Rauf Kesici

Cultivating Precarisation: Intersecting Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees in the Turkish Agricultural Sector pp. 345-361

Saniye Dedeoglu

‘Working While Feeling Awful Is Normal’: One Roma’s Experience of Presenteeism pp. 362-371

Helen Collins, Susan Barry and Piotr Dzuga

‘Dances with Daffodils’: Life as a Flower-picker in Southwest England pp. 372-380

Constantine Manolchev and Ivan

Book Review: Tom Vickers, Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis: Producing Workers and Immigrants pp. 381-382

Gianna Maria Eick

Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat pp. 382-384

Ben Ledger-Jessop

Book Review: Banu Özkazanç-Pan, Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans pp. 384-386

Bing Lu

Book Review: Preet S Aulakh and Philip F Kelly (eds), Mobilities of Labour and Capital in Asia pp. 386-387

Jonathan Winterton

Volume 36, issue 1, 2022

Gender Differences in the Social Consequences of Unemployment: How Job Loss Affects the Risk of Becoming Socially Isolated pp. 3-20

Jan Eckhard

Job Satisfaction and Sexual Orientation in Britain pp. 21-39

Sait Bayrakdar and Andrew King

University or Degree Apprenticeship? Stratification and Uncertainty in Routes to the Solicitors’ Profession pp. 40-58

Caroline Casey and Paul Wakeling

Economic Inactivity, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and Scarring: The Importance of NEET as a Marker of Long-Term Disadvantage pp. 59-79

Kevin Ralston, Dawn Everington, Zhiqiang Feng and Chris Dibben

Desperate Housewives and Happy Working Mothers: Are Parent-Couples with Equal Income More Satisfied throughout Parenthood? A Dyadic Longitudinal Study pp. 80-100

Laura Langner

Negotiating Gendered Ageing: Intersectional Reflexivity and Experiences of Incongruity of Self-Employed Older Women pp. 101-118

Elina Meliou and Oliver Mallett

When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry pp. 119-138

Natalie Galea, Abigail Powell, Fanny Salignac, Louise Chappell and Martin Loosemore

Relationship-Based Care Work, Austerity and Aged Care pp. 139-155

Donna Baines, Annabel Dulhunty and Sara Charlesworth

On the Front Line of the Circular Economy: The Entrepreneurial, Identity and Institutional Work of a Female Entrepreneur towards the Circular Transition pp. 156-166

Ödül Bozkurt, Mirela Xheneti and Vicky

Leveraging from Racism: A Dual Structural Advantages Perspective pp. 167-178

Penelope Muzanenhamo and Rashedur Chowdhury

Why Do Humans Remain Central to the Knowledge Work in the Age of Robots? Marx’s Fragment on Machines and Beyond pp. 179-189

Emrah Karakilic

Book Review: Paul Stewart, Jean-Pierre Durand and Maria-Magdalena Richea (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of the Sociology of Work in Europe pp. 190-192

Steve Taylor

Book Review: David Etherington, Austerity, Welfare and Work: Exploring Politics, Geographies and Inequalities pp. 192-193

Jamie Redman