Work, Employment & Society

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Volume 32, issue 6, 2018

The ‘Problem’ with the Employment Tribunal System: Reform, Rhetoric and Realities for the Clients of Citizens’ Advice Bureaux pp. 975-991

Eleanor Kirk

Labour Market Attachment Following Major Workforce Downsizings: A Comparison of Displaced and Retained Workers pp. 992-1010

Arja Jolkkonen, Pertti Koistinen, Arja Kurvinen, Liudmila Lipiäinen, Tapio Nummi and Pekka Virtanen

Can Religious Affiliation Explain the Disadvantage of Muslim Women in the British Labour Market? pp. 1011-1028

Nabil Khattab and Shereen Hussein

Institutional Logics and Low Skills: The Case of the Private Security Sector in Singapore pp. 1029-1043

Soon Joo Gog, Johnny Sung and David N Ashton

The Exclusive Nature of Inclusive Productive Employment in the Rural Areas of Northern Ethiopia pp. 1044-1060

Crelis F Rammelt, Maggi Leung and Kebede Manjur Gebru

Powerful Times: Flexible Discipline and Schedule Gifts at Work pp. 1061-1077

Alex J Wood

Linking the Sectoral Employment Structure and Household Poverty in the United Kingdom pp. 1078-1098

Paul Sissons, Anne E Green and Neil Lee

Is Employment Polarisation Inevitable? Occupational Change in Ireland and Switzerland, 1970–2010 pp. 1099-1117

Emily C Murphy and Daniel Oesch

Research Ethics in an Unethical World: The Politics and Morality of Engaged Research pp. 1118-1129

Claudio Morrison and Devi Sacchetto

Working for Change in India’s Civil Society pp. 1130-1139

Darryl Humble and Hiresh Mani

Book Review: Colin Hay and Anthony Payne, Civic Capitalism pp. 1140-1141

Jeffrey Kahana

Book Review: Jamie Woodcock, Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres pp. 1141-1143

Julie Monroe

Book Review: Eli Friedman, Zhongjin Li and Hao Ren (eds), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance pp. 1143-1144

Xuebing Cao

Thank You to Referees pp. 1145-1145

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Volume 32, issue 5, 2018

Understanding the Perception of the ‘Migrant Work Ethic’ pp. 811-830

Chris Dawson, Michail Veliziotis and Benjamin Hopkins

Palestinian Arabs and Jews at Work: Workplace Encounters in a War-Torn Country and the Grassroots Strategy of ‘Split Ascription’ pp. 831-849

Asaf Darr

From Labour Migrant to Stay-at-Home Mother? Childcare and Return to Work among Migrant Mothers from the EU Accession Countries in Ireland pp. 850-867

Antje Rö der, Mark Ward and Carmen-Adriana Frese

Social Skills, Workplaces and Social Remittances: A Case of Post-Accession Migrants pp. 868-886

Izabela Grabowska

‘Chicken and Duck Talk’: Life and Death of Language Training at a Japanese Multinational in China pp. 887-905

Yu Zheng and Chris Smith

Barriers for Highly Qualified A8 Immigrants in the UK Labour Market pp. 906-924

Ibrahim Sirkeci, Necla Acik, Bradley Saunders and Andrej Přívara

Unfreedom Unbound: Developing a Cumulative Approach to Understanding Unfree Labour in Singapore pp. 925-941

Sallie Yea and Stephanie Chok

Bricolage as Survival, Growth and Transformation: The Role of Patch-Working in the Social Agency of Migrant Entrepreneurs pp. 942-962

María Villares-Varela, Monder Ram and Trevor Jones

Book review: Gregor Gall, Sex Worker Unionization: Global Developments, Challenges and Possibilities pp. 963-964

Eva Klambauer

Book Review: Violaine Delteil and Vassil Kirov (eds), Labour and Social Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe: Europeanization and Beyond pp. 965-966

Phil Almond

Informality, Precarious Work and New Approaches to Complex Realities pp. 967-970

Lorena Poblete

Volume 32, issue 4, 2018

The Many Faces of Gender Inequality at Work pp. 623-628

Daniela Lup, T Alexandra Beauregard and Maria Adamson

Convergence or Divergence? Educational Discrepancies in Work-Care Arrangements of Mothers with Young Children in Germany pp. 629-649

Juliane Frederike Stahl and Pia Sophia Schober

Unemployment and the Division of Housework in Europe pp. 650-669

Tanja van der Lippe, Judith Treas and Lukas Norbutas

Transnational Labour Migration and the place of Reproductive Labour: Trailing Wives and Community Support in Boddington pp. 670-686

Robyn Mayes and Paul Koshy

Flexible men and Successful Women: The Effects of Flexible Working Hours on German Couples’ Wages pp. 687-706

Laura Antonia Langner

The Institutionalised Undervaluation of Women’s Work: The Case of Local Government Sector Collective Agreements pp. 707-725

Paula Koskinen Sandberg, Maria Törnroos and Roosa Kohvakka

Dynamics of the Gender Earnings Inequality in Reform-Era Urban China pp. 726-746

Guangye He and Xiaogang Wu

Good, Bad and Very Bad Part-time Jobs for Women? Re-examining the Importance of Occupational Class for Job Quality since the ‘Great Recession’ in Britain pp. 747-767

Tracey Warren and Clare Lyonette

Workplace Variation in Fatherhood Wage Premiums: Do Formalization and Performance Pay Matter? pp. 768-788

Sylvia Fuller and Lynn Prince Cooke

The Good, the Not So Good and the Ugly: Gender Equality, Equal Pay and Austerity in English Local Government pp. 789-805

Hazel Conley and Margaret Page

Volume 32, issue 3, 2018

In, Against and Beyond Precarity: Work in Insecure Times pp. 447-457

Gabriella Alberti, Ioulia Bessa, Kate Hardy, Vera Trappmann and Charles Umney

Lost in Administration: (Re)Producing Precarious Citizenship for Young University-Educated Intra-EU Migrants in Brussels pp. 458-474

Anna Simola 

Paying for Free Delivery: Dependent Self-Employment as a Measure of Precarity in Parcel Delivery pp. 475-492

Sian Moore and Kirsty Newsome

Masculinity and Precarity: Male Migrant Taxi Drivers in South China pp. 493-508

Susanne YP Choi

Challenges and Contradictions in the ‘Normalising’ of Precarious Work pp. 509-527

Jill Rubery, Damian Grimshaw, Arjan Keizer and Mathew Johnson

Post-Wage Politics and the Rise of Community Capitalism pp. 528-545

Silke van Dyk

Tackling Precarious Work in Public Supply Chains: A Comparison of Local Government Procurement Policies in Denmark, Germany and the UK pp. 546-563

Karen Jaehrling, Mathew Johnson, Trine P Larsen, Bjarke Refslund and Damian Grimshaw

Contrived Competition and Manufactured Uncertainty: Understanding Managerial Job Insecurity Narratives in Large Corporations pp. 564-580

John Hassard and Jonathan Morris

Resource Mobilisation and Precarious Workers’ Organisations: An Analysis of the Chilean Subcontracted Mineworkers’ Unions pp. 581-598

Omar Manky

Class and Precarity: An Unhappy Coupling in China’s Working Class Formation pp. 599-615

Chris Smith and Ngai Pun

Book Review: Creativity and Precarity, from New Labour to Alt-Labour: Angela McRobbie, Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries and Nicole S Cohen, Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age pp. 616-619

Frederick Harry Pitts

Volume 32, issue 2, 2018

Anticipatory Socialization and the Construction of the Employable Graduate: A Critical Analysis of Employers’ Graduate Careers Websites pp. 239-256

Karen Handley

Pride Against Prejudice? The Stakes of Concealment and Disclosure of a Stigmatized Identity for Gay and Lesbian Auditors pp. 257-273

Sebastien Stenger and Thomas Roulet

The Academic Game: Compliance and Resistance in Universities pp. 274-291

Senia Kalfa, Adrian Wilkinson and Paul J Gollan

Work Orientations, Well-Being and Job Content of Self-Employed and Employed Professionals pp. 292-311

Peter Warr and Ilke Inceoglu

Femininities in STEM: Outsiders Within pp. 312-329

Pat O’Connor, Clare O’Hagan and Breda Gray

Eroding ‘Respectability’: Deprofessionalization Through Organizational Spaces pp. 330-347

Sabina Siebert, Stacey Bushfield, Graeme Martin and Brian Howieson

Occupational Prestige and Gender-Occupational Segregation pp. 348-367

Inmaculada García-Mainar, Victor Montuenga and Guillermo García-Martín

Workplace Skill Investments – An Early Career Glass Ceiling? Job Complexity and Wages Among Young Professionals in Sweden pp. 368-386

Katarina Boye and Anne Grönlund

Are You Moving Up or Falling Short? An Inquiry of Skills-based Variation in Self-perceived Employability among Norwegian Employees pp. 387-406

Ida Drange, Vilde Hoff Bernstrøm and Svenn-Erik Mamelund

Something to Celebrate (or not): The Differing Impact of Promotion to Manager on the Job Satisfaction of Women and Men pp. 407-425

Daniela Lup

Sports Psychology in the English Premier League: ‘It Feels Precarious and is Precarious’ pp. 426-435

Sarah Gilmore, Christopher Wagstaff and John Smith

Book Review Symposium: Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne, Skills in the Age of Over-Qualification: Comparing Service Sector Work in Europe pp. 436-437

Françoise Carré

Book Review Symposium: Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne, Skills in the Age of Over-Qualification: Comparing Service Sector Work in Europe pp. 438-439

Mark Stuart

Book Review Symposium: Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne, Skills in the Age of Over-Qualification: Comparing Service Sector Work in Europe pp. 439-441

Angela Knox

Response to Reviews of Skills in the Age of Over-Qualification: Comparing Service Sector Work in Europe pp. 441-443

Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne

Volume 32, issue 1, 2018

Capabilities and Choices of Vulnerable, Long-Term Unemployed Individuals pp. 3-19

Vanessa Beck

Influence of Work–Welfare Cycling and Labour Market Segmentation on Employment Histories of Young Long-Term Unemployed pp. 20-37

Alexander McTier and Alan McGregor

Rewarding Work: Cross-National Differences in Benefits, Volunteering During Unemployment, Well-Being and Mental Health pp. 38-56

Daiga KamerÄ de and Matthew R Bennett

Evidence from the ‘Frontline’? An Ethnographic Problematisation of Welfare-to-Work Administrator Opinions pp. 57-74

John David Jordan

Maternal Employment: Enabling Factors in Context pp. 75-92

Giulia M Dotti Sani and Stefani Scherer

Britain’s Older Employees in Decline, 1990–2006: A Panel Analysis of Pay pp. 93-113

Deborah Smeaton and Michael White

Contemporary Employer Interest Representation in the United Kingdom pp. 114-132

Leon Gooberman, Marco Hauptmeier and Edmund Heery

The Work of Community Gardens: Reclaiming Place for Community in the City pp. 133-149

Andrew Cumbers, Deirdre Shaw, John Crossan and Robert McMaster

Occupations, the Missing Link? A New Theoretical and Methodological Approach to Product Markets, Skill and Pay pp. 150-168

Angela Knox and Chris Warhurst

‘Cool’ Meanings: Tattoo Artists, Body Work and Organizational ‘Bodyscape’ pp. 169-185

Ruth Simpson and Alison Pullen

The Health and Well-Being at Work Agenda: Good News for (Disabled) Workers or Just a Capital Idea? pp. 186-197

Deborah Foster

Pointless Diversity Training: Unconscious Bias, New Racism and Agency pp. 198-209

Mike Noon

‘You End Up with Nothing’: The Experience of Being a Statistic of ‘In-Work Poverty’ in the UK pp. 210-218

Jo McBride, Andrew Smith and Marcell Mbala

A Beginning and not the End: Work After a Diagnosis of Dementia pp. 219-229

Jannine Williams, Sue Richardson and Elizabeth Draper

Book Review: Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant, Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce pp. 230-231

Erika Kispeter

Book Review: Emiliana Armano, Arianna Bove and Annalisa Murgia, Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods: Subjectivities and Resistance pp. 231-233

Constantine Manolchev

Book Review: Suzan Lewis, Deirdre Anderson, Clare Lyonette, Nicola Payne and Stephen Wood (eds), Work–Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond pp. 233-235

Judie M Gannon