Work, Employment & Society

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Volume 35, issue 6, 2021

‘I Have a Newborn at Home’: Multi-actor Attributions and the Implementation of Shared Parental Leave pp. 995-1013

Sara Chaudhry, Ishbel McWha-Hermann, Sophie Flemig and Arleta Blackley-Wiertelak

Fathers’ Perceptions of the Availability of Flexible Working Arrangements: Evidence from the UK pp. 1014-1033

Rose Cook, Margaret O’Brien, Sara Connolly, Matthew Aldrich and Svetlana Speight

Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography pp. 1034-1052

Holly Patrick-Thomson and Michael Kranert

A Heterodox Re-Reading of Creative Work: The Diverse Economies of Danish Visual Artists pp. 1053-1072

Ana Alacovska and Trine Bille

‘They’ve Been with Me the Whole Journey’: Temporality, Emotional Labour and Hairdressing Work pp. 1073-1090

Oonagh M Harness, Kimberly Jamie and Robert McMurray

Conceptualizing Responsible Return to Work: Corporate Social Responsibility in Relation to Employee Return to Work after Cancer pp. 1091-1114

Layla Branicki, Senia Kalfa and Stephen Brammer

How Occupational Pensions Shape Extended Working Lives: Gender, Class and Chance after the Norwegian Pension Reform pp. 1115-1132

Anne Skevik Grødem and Jon M Hippe

An NHS Doctor’s Lived Experience of Burnout during the First Wave of Covid-19 pp. 1133-1143

Sara Chaudhry, Emily Yarrow, Maryam Aldossari and Elizabeth Waterson

Working Hard for the Ones You Love and Care for Under Covid-19 Physical Distancing pp. 1144-1154

Lander Vermeerbergen, Valeria Pulignano, Markieta Domecka and Marieke Jansens

Thursday Night and a Sing-along ‘Sung Alone’: The Experiences of a Self-employed Performer During the Pandemic pp. 1155-1166

Philip Hancock, Melissa Tyler and Mark Godiva

Thank You to Referees pp. 1167-1167

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Corrigendum pp. 1168-1170

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Volume 35, issue 5, 2021

Why Queer Workers Make Good Organisers pp. 819-836

Michelle Esther O’Brien

When Can a Disability Quota System Empower Disabled Individuals in the Workplace? The Case of France pp. 837-855

Sarah Richard and Sophie Hennekam

Youth, Work and ‘Career’ as a Way of Talking about the Self pp. 856-871

David Farrugia

Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work pp. 872-890

Paula McDonald, Penny Williams and Robyn Mayes

On the Biopsychosocial Costs of Alienated Labor pp. 891-913

Melvin Seeman, Sharon Stein Merkin, Arun Karlamangla, Brandon Koretz, Joseph G Grzywacz, Margie Lachman and Teresa Seeman

Reproducing Global Inequalities in the Online Labour Market: Valuing Capital in the Design Field pp. 914-930

Pelin Demirel, Ekaterina Nemkova and Rebecca Taylor

Informal Practices in the Making of Professionals: The Case of Engineers in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan pp. 931-947

Ayça Ergun and Leyla Sayfutdinova

The Worker Capabilities Approach: Insights from Worker Mobilizations in Italian Logistics and Food Delivery pp. 948-967

Lorenzo Cini and Bartek Goldmann

Doing Double Time: Women, Incarceration and Employment Discrimination pp. 968-978

Diane van den Broek, Prudence Black and Nicki

Doing and Negotiating Transgender on the Front Line: Customer Abuse, Transphobia and Stigma in the Food Retail Sector pp. 979-988

Anastasios Hadjisolomou

Book Review: Colin C Williams and Friedrich Schneider, Measuring the Global Shadow Economy: The Prevalence of Informal Work and Labour pp. 989-991

Jen Lendrum

Volume 35, issue 4, 2021

Gender Equalities: What Lies Ahead pp. 615-620

Elizabeth Cotton, T Alexandra Beauregard and Janroj Yilmaz Keles

Women’s Vulnerability to the Economic Crisis through the Lens of Part-time Work in Spain pp. 621-639

Valeria Insarauto

‘I Wanted More Women in, but...’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives pp. 640-656

Owain Smolović Jones, Sanela Smolović Jones, Scott Taylor and Emily Yarrow

The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service pp. 657-676

Carol Atkinson, Fiona Carmichael and Jo Duberley

Career Advancement for Women in the British Hospitality Industry: The Enabling Factors pp. 677-695

Valentine Calinaud, Jithendran Kokkranikal and Maria Gebbels

Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’ pp. 696-715

Charlotta Niemistö, Jeff Hearn, Carolyn Kehn and Annamari Tuori

Women Managers’ Impact on Use of Family-friendly Measures among Their Subordinates in Japanese Firms pp. 716-734

Makiko Fuwa

Bringing Women on Board? Family Policies, Quotas and Gender Diversity in Top Jobs pp. 735-752

Helen Kowalewska

Broadening of the Field of Corporate Boards and Legitimate Capitals: An Investigation into the Use of Gender Quotas in Corporate Boards in Norway pp. 753-773

Cathrine Seierstad, Ahu Tatli, Maryam Aldossari and Morten Huse

Women Professors across STEMM and Non-STEMM Disciplines: Navigating Gendered Spaces and Playing the Academic Game pp. 774-792

Colette Fagan and Nina Teasdale

A Cross-Country Comparison of Gender Traditionalism in Business Leadership: How Supportive Are Female Supervisors? pp. 793-814

Carly van Mensvoort, Gerbert Kraaykamp, Roza Meuleman and Marieke van den Brink

Volume 35, issue 3, 2021

Nonstandard Employment and Job Satisfaction across Time in China: Evidence from the Chinese General Social Survey (2006–2012) pp. 411-431

Kritkorn Nawakitphaitoon and Can Tang

Consuming Worker Exploitation? Accounts and Justifications for Consumer (In)action to Modern Slavery pp. 432-450

Michal Carrington, Andreas Chatzidakis and Deirdre Shaw

Upskilling, Deskilling or Polarisation? Evidence on Change in Skills in Europe pp. 451-469

Žilvinas Martinaitis, Aleksandr Christenko and Jonas AntanaviÄ Ius

Absence from Work after the Birth of the First Child and Mothers’ Retirement Incomes: A Comparative Analysis of 10 European Countries pp. 470-489

Giulia M Dotti Sani and Matteo Luppi

Gender Wage Gap and the Involvement of Partners in Household Work pp. 490-508

Eleonora Matteazzi and Stefani Scherer

Building Inequality: Wage Disparity between Bangladeshi and Thai Guestworkers in Singapore’s Construction Industry pp. 509-526

Katie Rainwater

‘Good’ Bad Jobs? The Evolution of Migrant Low-Wage Employment in Germany (1985–2015) pp. 527-544

Torben Krings

Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom pp. 545-565

Senhu Wang, Adam Coutts, Brendan Burchell, Daiga KamerÄ de and Ursula Balderson

The Partner Pay Gap: Associations between Spouses’ Relative Earnings and Life Satisfaction among Couples in the UK pp. 566-583

Vanessa Gash and Anke C Plagnol

A Feminist Political Economy Critique of ‘the Militant Minority’ pp. 584-594

Adam DK King

‘It’s My Passion and Not Really Like Work’: Balancing Precarity with the Work–Life of a Volunteer Team Leader in the Conservation Sector pp. 595-605

Peter John Sandiford and Sally Green

Book Review: Carl Benedikt Frey, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation pp. 606-607

Daniel Nicholson

Book Review: Lynn S Chancer, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski and Christine Trost (eds), Youth, Jobs, and the Future: Problems and Prospects pp. 607-609

Andrew Kozhevnikov

Volume 35, issue 2, 2021

Sticks and Stones: The Naming of Global Talent pp. 203-220

Susan Kirk

Precarity as a Biographical Problem? Young Workers Living with Precarity in Germany and Poland pp. 221-238

Adam Mrozowicki and Vera Trappmann

The Relative Quality of Sex Work pp. 239-255

Cecilia Benoit, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Priscilla Healey and Douglas Magnuson

‘Working to Live, Not Living to Work’: Low-Paid Multiple Employment and Work–Life Articulation pp. 256-276

Andrew Smith and Jo McBride

Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study pp. 277-295

Ginny M Sargent, Julia McQuoid, Jane Dixon, Cathy Banwell and Lyndall Strazdins

Configurations of Boundary Management Practices among Knowledge Workers pp. 296-315

Stefanie C Reissner, Michal Izak and Donald Hislop

‘My Life Is More Valuable Than This’: Understanding Risk among On-Demand Food Couriers in Edinburgh pp. 316-331

Karen Gregory

Data Scientists’ Identity Work: Omnivorous Symbolic Boundaries in Skills Acquisition pp. 332-349

Netta Avnoon

Masters of None? How Cultural Workers Use Reframing to Achieve Legitimacy in Portfolio Careers pp. 350-368

Allyson Stokes

Resisting Patriarchal Cultures: The Case of Female Spanish Home-Based Teleworkers pp. 369-385

Ana Gálvez, Francisco Tirado and Jose M Alcaraz

‘It’s Like a War Zone’: Jay’s Liminal Experience of Normal and Extreme Work in a UK Supermarket during the COVID-19 Pandemic pp. 386-395

Minjie Cai, Scott Tindal, Safak Tartanoglu Bennett and Jay Velu

Profit over People? Evaluating Morality on the Front Line during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Front-Line Service Manager’s Confession and Regrets pp. 396-405

Anastasios Hadjisolomou and Sam Simone

Volume 35, issue 1, 2021

Healing or Deepening the Scars of Unemployment? The Impact of Activation Policies on Unemployed Workers pp. 3-20

Lukas Fervers

‘When I’m 65’: On the Age-negotiated Duty to Work pp. 21-36

Monika Wilińska, Bo Rolander and Pia H Bűlow

Employment Trade-Offs under Different Family Policy Constellations pp. 37-56

Karen M Olsen

The Influence of Household Pension Wealth, Partner’s Health and Spousal Employment Status on Heterogeneous Early Retirement Transitions among Women in England pp. 57-77

Jennifer Prattley and Tarani Chandola

‘You Just Had to Get on with It’: Exploring the Persistence of Gender Inequality through Women’s Career Histories pp. 78-96

Jackie Ford, Carol Atkinson, Nancy Harding and David Collinson

Possible Selves in a Transforming Economy: Upwardly Mobile Working-Class Masculinities, Service Work and Negotiated Aspirations in Australia pp. 97-115

Garth Stahl, Sarah McDonald and John Young

Reflexive Self-Identity and Work: Working Women, Biographical Disruption and Agency pp. 116-136

Diane Trusson, Clive Trusson and Catherine Casey

Precarious Education-to-Work Transitions: Entering Welfare Professions under a Workfarist Regime pp. 137-156

Barbara Samaluk

The Impact of Unemployment and Non-Standard Forms of Employment on the Housing Autonomy of Young Adults pp. 157-177

Katerina Gousia, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Thomas Middleton and Olena Nizalova

No Voice, No Choice: Assessing Danish Active Labour Market Policies Using Sen’s Capability Approach pp. 178-188

Roger Fernandez-Urbano and Michael Orton

Book Review: Helen Bound, Karen Evans, Sahara Sadik and Annie Karmel, How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop: Challenges and Opportunities pp. 189-190

Katy Jones

Book Review: Jürgen R Grote and Claudius Wagemann (eds), Social Movements and Organized Labour: Passions and Interests pp. 191-192

Calum Carson

Book Review: Jean-Pierre Durand, Creating the New Worker: Work, Consumption and Subordination pp. 192-194

Carol Wolkowitz

Book Review Symposium: Maurizio Atzeni and Immanuel Ness (eds), Global Perspectives on Workers’ and Labour Organizations pp. 195-196

Steve New

Book Review Symposium: Maurizio Atzeni and Immanuel Ness (eds), Global Perspectives on Workers’ and Labour Organizations pp. 197-198

Martí López-Andreu