Work, Employment & Society

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Volume 33, issue 6, 2019

Precariousness, Gender, Resistance and Consent in the Face of Global Production Network’s ‘Reforms’ of Pakistan’s Garment Manufacturing Industry pp. 895-912

Muhammad Ayaz, Muhammad Junaid Ashraf and Trevor Hopper

Disconnecting Labour? The Labour Process in the UK Fast Fashion Value Chain pp. 913-928

Nikolaus Hammer and Réka Plugor

When Welfare Professionals Encounter Restructuring and Privatization: The Inside Story of the Probation Service of England and Wales pp. 929-947

Gill Kirton and Cécile Guillaume

Mental Illness, Social Suffering and Structural Antagonism in the Labour Process pp. 948-965

Megan Woods, Rob Macklin, Sarah Dawkins and Angela Martin

Intersectionalized Professional Identities and Gender in the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries pp. 966-982

Gabriele Griffin

Care More, Earn Less? The Association between Taking Paid Leave to Care for Sick Children and Wages among Swedish Parents pp. 983-1001

Katarina Boye

National Board Quotas and the Gender Pay Gap among European Managers pp. 1002-1019

David J Maume, Orlaith Heymann and Leah Ruppanner

Sexual Orientation, Legal Partnerships and Wages in Britain pp. 1020-1038

Sarah Bridges and Samuel Mann

Back to the Shop Floor: Behavioural Insights from Workplace Sociology pp. 1039-1057

Andrew Pendleton, Ben Lupton, Andrew Rowe and Richard Whittle

Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Outsmart Complex Knowledge Work pp. 1058-1067

Lene Pettersen

Book Review: Ching Kwan Lee, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa pp. 1068-1069

Chris Smith

Book Review: Megha Amrith and Nina Sahraoui (eds), Gender, Work and Migration: Agency in Gendered Labour Settings pp. 1070-1071

Lilith Brouwers

Book Review: Sergio Bologna, The Rise of the European Self-Employed Workforce pp. 1071-1073

Martí López-Andreu

Book Review: Gregor Gall, Employment Relations in Financial Services: An Exploration of the Employee Experience after the Financial Crash pp. 1073-1074

Robin Klimecki

Book Review: Yasemin Besen-Cassino, The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap pp. 1075-1076

Merita Jokela

Joint Book Review: Susana Narotzky and Victoria Goddard (eds), Work and Livelihoods in Times of Crisis: History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis and Jong Bum Kwon and Carrie M Lane (eds), Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on Work and its Absence pp. 1077-1079

Francisco Arqueros-Fernandez

Thank You to Referees pp. 1080-1080

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Volume 33, issue 5, 2019

The Hiring Prospects of Foreign-Educated Immigrants: A Factorial Survey among German Employers pp. 739-758

Andreas Damelang, Martin Abraham, Sabine Ebensperger and Felix Stumpf

Migrants and Low-Paid Employment in British Workplaces pp. 759-776

Alex Bryson and Michael White

Becoming a ‘Labour Migrant’: Immigration Regulations as a Frame of Reference for Migrant Employment pp. 777-793

Jukka Könönen

Emotional Compliance and Emotion as Resistance: Shame and Anger among the Long-Term Unemployed pp. 794-811

Michelle Peterie, Gaby Ramia, Greg Marston and Roger Patulny

The Struggle to Reconcile Precarious Work and Parenthood: The Case of Italian ‘Precarious Parents’ pp. 812-828

Stefano Ba’

Discourses of Professionalism in Front-Line Service Work: Insights from a Case Study in an Italian Bank pp. 829-845

Luca Carollo and Luca Solari

The Value of Self-Employment to Ethnic Minorities pp. 846-864

Malcolm Brynin, Mohammed Karim and Wouter Zwysen

The Revival of Labour Movement Studies in Argentina: Old and Lost Agendas pp. 865-876

Maurizio Atzeni and Juan Grigera

‘Off My Own Back’: Precarity on the Frontlines of Care Work pp. 877-887

Donna Baines, Paul Kent and Sally Kent

Book Review: Marcus Taylor and Sébastien Rioux, Global Labour Studies pp. 888-889

Constantine Manolchev

Book Review: Stefania Marino, Judith Roosblad and Rinus Penninx (eds), Trade Unions and Migrant Workers: New Contexts and Challenges in Europe pp. 889-891

Mai Lundemark

Volume 33, issue 4, 2019

‘Good’ Jobs and ‘Bad’ Jobs: Contemplating Job Quality in Different Contexts pp. 551-559

Maria Adamson and Ian Roper

‘Bad’ Jobs in a ‘Good’ Sector: Examining the Employment Outcomes of Temporary Work in the Canadian Public Sector pp. 560-579

Natasha Stecy-Hildebrandt, Sylvia Fuller and Alisyn Burns

Utility Manning: Young Filipino Men, Servitude and the Moral Economy of Becoming a Seafarer and Attaining Adulthood pp. 580-595

Roderick G Galam

Captive in Cycles of Invisibility? Prisoners’ Work for the Private Sector pp. 596-612

Jenna Pandeli, Michael Marinetto and Jean Jenkins

From Contract to Speculation: New Relations of Work and Production in Freelance Travel Journalism pp. 613-630

Tim Rosenkranz

Can Dirty Work be Satisfying? A Mixed Method Study of Workers Doing Dirty Jobs pp. 631-647

Stephen Deery, Deanna Kolar and Janet Walsh

‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’: The Implications of Lost Autonomy and Trust for Professionals at Sea pp. 648-665

Helen Sampson, Nelson Turgo, Iris Acejo, Neil Ellis and Lijun Tang

Job Satisfaction and Bad Jobs: Why Are Cleaners So Happy at Work? pp. 666-681

Alexandre Léné

Active Enactment and Virtuous Circles of Employment Relations: How Danish Unions Organised the Transnationalised Copenhagen Metro Construction Project pp. 682-699

Jens Arnholtz and Bjarke Refslund

Dealing with the Dead: Life as a Third-Generation Independent Funeral Director pp. 700-708

Peter Jordan, Jenna Ward and Robert McMurray

‘I’m Not a Bloody Slave, I Get Paid and if I Don’t Get Paid Then Nothing Happens’: Sarah’s Experience of Being a Student Sex Worker pp. 709-718

Jessica Simpson and Sarah Smith

Speaking of Contradiction pp. 719-730

Geraint Harvey, Peter Turnbull and Daniel Wintersberger

Book Review: Kevin JA Thomas, Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq: Sierra Leonean Labor Migrants at US Military Bases pp. 731-732

Marcus Curran

Book Review: Wing-Chung Ho, Occupational Health and Social Estrangement in China pp. 732-734

Desai Shan

Volume 33, issue 3, 2019

Ethnicity, Gender and Household Effects on Becoming NEET: An Intersectional Analysis pp. 351-373

Carolina V Zuccotti and Jacqueline O’Reilly

Learning from Mum: Cross-National Evidence Linking Maternal Employment and Adult Children’s Outcomes pp. 374-400

Kathleen L McGinn, Mayra Ruiz Castro and Elizabeth Long Lingo

The Downward Spiral of Youth Unemployment: An Approach Considering Social Networks and Family Background pp. 401-421

Mireia Bolíbar, Joan Miquel Verd and Oriol Barranco

Household Employment and the Crisis in Europe pp. 422-443

Núria Sánchez-Mira and Jacqueline O’Reilly

Politicising Women’s Part-Time Work in Norway: A Longitudinal Study of Ideas pp. 444-461

Anne Lise Ellingsæter and Ragnhild Steen Jensen

Gender Quotas or Girls’ Networks? Evidence from an Italian Research Selection pp. 462-482

Daniele Checchi, Simona Cicognani and Nevena Kulic

‘Don’t Use “the Weak Word†’: Women Brewers, Identities and Gendered Territories of Embodied Work pp. 483-499

Agnieszka Rydzik and Victoria Ellis-Vowles

Defence is the Best Offence: Horizontal Disintegration and Institutional Completion in the German Coordinated Market Economy pp. 500-517

Markus Hertwig, Johannes Kirsch and Carsten Wirth

Reframing the Measurement of Women’s Work in the Sub-Saharan African Context pp. 518-528

Jocelyn E Finlay, Yvette Efevbera, Jacques Ndikubagenzi, Mahesh Karra and David Canning

Being a Self-Employed Older Woman: From Discrimination to Activism pp. 529-538

Elina Meliou, Oliver Mallett and Shoshanna Rosenberg

Book Review: Triin Roosalu and Dirk Hofäcker (eds), Rethinking Gender, Work and Care in a New Europe: Theorising Markets and Societies in the Post-Postsocialist Era pp. 539-540

Arianna Radin

Book Review Symposium: Ulrich Jürgens and Martin Krzywdzinski, New Worlds of Work: Varieties of Work in Car Factories in the BRIC Countries pp. 541-543

Tom Barnes

Book Review Symposium: Ulrich Jürgens and Martin Krzywdzinski, New Worlds of Work: Varieties of Work in Car Factories in the BRIC Countries pp. 543-544

Chris Smith

Book Review Symposium: Ulrich Jürgens and Martin Krzywdzinski, New Worlds of Work: Varieties of Work in Car Factories in the BRIC Countries pp. 545-546

Sarosh Kuruvilla

Response to Reviews of New Worlds of Work pp. 546-548

Ulrich Jürgens and Martin Krzywdzinski

Volume 33, issue 2, 2019

An American Solution to an Irish Problem: A Consideration of the Material Conditions that Shape the Architecture of Union Organizing pp. 191-207

John Geary and Sophie Gamwell

Overcoming Barriers to Transnational Organizing Through Identity Work: Finnish–Estonian Trade Union Cooperation pp. 208-225

Kairit Kall, Nathan Lillie, Markku Sippola and Laura Mankki

Inclusion of ‘Outsiders’ by Japanese Unions? The Organizing of Non-Regular Workers in Retail pp. 226-243

Arjan B Keizer

‘You Can’t Win’: The Non-Profit Double-Bind and Experiences of Organisational Contradictions in the Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector pp. 244-261

Katharine Venter, Denise Currie and Martin McCracken

Selective Consent and Dissent: Professional Response to Reform in the Post-Crisis Greek NHS pp. 262-279

Sharon C Bolton, Vasilis Charalampopoulos and Lila Skountridaki

Multiple Dimensions of Work Intensity: Ambulance Work as Edgework pp. 280-297

Edward Granter, Paresh Wankhade, Leo McCann, John Hassard and Paula Hyde

The Aesthetics of Work-Readiness: Aesthetic Judgements and Pedagogies for Conditional Welfare and Post-Fordist Labour Markets pp. 298-313

Marguerite van den Berg and Josien Arts

Unpacking the Category of Migrant Workers in Trade Union Research: A Multi-Level Approach to Migrant Intersectionalities pp. 314-325

Maite Tapia and Gabriella Alberti

Losing the Faith: Public Sector Work and the Erosion of Career Calling pp. 326-335

Laurie Cohen, Joanne Duberley and Pete Smith

‘We Were the Ones Really Doing Something About It’: Gender and Mobilisation against Factory Closure pp. 336-344

Margaret Robertson and Andy Clark

Book Review: Thomas Amossé, Alex Bryson, John Forth and Héloïse Petit (eds), Comparative Workplace Employment Relations: An Analysis of Practice in Britain and France pp. 345-346

Sylvie Contrepois

Book Review: Jeffrey Rothstein, When Good Jobs Go Bad: Globalization, De-Unionization, and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry pp. 346-348

Glynne Williams

Volume 33, issue 1, 2019

Have Mobile Devices Changed Working Patterns in the 21st Century? A Time-diary Analysis of Work Extension in the UK pp. 3-20

Killian Mullan and Judy Wajcman

A Typology of Crowdwork Platforms pp. 21-38

Debra Howcroft and Birgitta Bergvall-KÃ¥reborn

Older Workers and Occupational Identity in the Telecommunications Industry: Navigating Employment Transitions through the Life Course pp. 39-55

Robert MacKenzie and Abigail Marks

Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy pp. 56-75

Alex J Wood, Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta and Isis Hjorth

Market Exposure and the Labour Process: The Contradictory Dynamics in Managing Subcontracted Services Work pp. 76-95

Damian Grimshaw, Jo Cartwright, Arjan Keizer and Jill Rubery

‘A Minute’s a Life-Time in Fast-Food!’: Managerial Job Quality in the Quick Service Restaurant Sector pp. 96-111

Peter Butler and Anita Hammer

The Fearful and Anxious Professional: Partner Experiences of Working in the Financialized Professional Services Firm pp. 112-130

Scott M Allan, James R Faulconbridge and Pete Thomas

Looking beyond Average Earnings: Why Are Male and Female Part-Time Employees in the UK More Likely to Be Low Paid Than Their Full-Time Counterparts? pp. 131-148

Madeline Nightingale

Professional Misconduct in Healthcare: Setting Out a Research Agenda for Work Sociology pp. 149-161

Graeme Currie, John Richmond, James Faulconbridge, Claudia Gabbioneta and Daniel Muzio

‘The Only Way is Essex’: Gender, Union and Mobilisation among Fire Service Control Room Staff pp. 162-173

Lynne Hudson, Sian Moore, Kate Tainsh, Phil Taylor and Tessa Wright

‘Going Underground’: A Tube Worker’s Experience of Struggles over the Frontier of Control pp. 174-183

Emma S Hughes, Tony Dobbins and Stephen Murphy

Book Review: Michael K Corman, Paramedics On and Off the Streets: Emergency Medical Services in the Age of Technological Governance pp. 184-185

Leo McCann

Book Review: Gilberto Antonelli and Boike Rehbein (eds), Inequality in Economics and Sociology: New Perspectives pp. 185-187

Constantine Manolchev