Work, Employment & Society

1987 - 2025

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Volume 31, issue 6, 2017

Trading health for money: agential struggles in the (re)configuration of subjectivity, the body and pain among construction workers pp. 887-903

Jeppe ZN Ajslev, Jeppe L Møller, Roger Persson and Lars L Andersen

Perforated body work: the case of tele-nursing pp. 904-920

Diane van den Broek

Resisting labour control and optimizing social ties: experiences of women construction workers in Delhi pp. 921-936

Sakshi Khurana

Linguistic barriers and bridges: constructing social capital in ethnically diverse low-skill workplaces pp. 937-953

Frederik Thuesen

Speaking up, leaving or keeping silent: racialized employees in the Swedish elderly care sector pp. 954-971

Alireza Behtoui, Kristina Boréus, Anders Neergaard and Soheyla Yazdanpanah

Working retirees in Europe: individual and societal determinants pp. 972-991

Ellen Dingemans, Kène Henkens and Hanna van Solinge

Ethnicity and low wage traps: favouritism, homosocial reproduction and economic marginalization pp. 992-1009

Maria Hudson, Gina Netto, Mike Noon, Filip Sosenko, Philomena de Lima and Nicolina Kamenou-Aigbekaen

Union renewal in historical perspective pp. 1010-1020

Richard Croucher and Geoffrey Wood

From duping clients to institutional entrepreneurship in Mauritius: the account of a former BPO worker who became an activist pp. 1021-1030

Blandine Emilien and Shankar Veerta

Book review: Stephen Edgell, Heidi Gottfried and Edward Granter (eds), The SAGE Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment pp. 1031-1036

Tony Elger

Book review: Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie and Francis Green (eds), Unequal Britain at Work pp. 1037-1038

Huw Morris

Book review: Mary Romero, Valerie Preston and Wenona Giles (eds), When Care Work Goes Global: Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work pp. 1038-1040

Al Rainnie

Book review: Aileen O’Carroll, Working Time, Knowledge Work and Post-Industrial Society: Unpredictable Work pp. 1040-1042

Matías D Scaglione

Thank you to referees pp. 1043-1043

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Corrigendum pp. 1044-1044

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Volume 31, issue 5, 2017

Would you think about doing sex for money? Structure and agency in deciding to sell sex in Canada pp. 731-747

Cecilia Benoit, Nadia Ouellet, Mikael Jansson, Samantha Magnus and Michaela Smith

‘We all have one’: exit plans as a professional strategy in sex work pp. 748-763

Julie Ham and Fairleigh Gilmour

Service nepotism in cosmopolitan transient social spaces pp. 764-781

David Sarpong and Mairi Maclean

A floor to exploitation? Social economy organizations at the edge of a restructuring economy pp. 782-799

M. Anne Visser

More than convenience: the role of habitus in understanding the food choices of fast food workers pp. 800-815

Julia Woodhall-Melnik and Flora I Matheson

‘When the stomach is full we look for respect’: perceptions of ‘good work’ in the urban informal sectors of three developing countries pp. 816-833

William Monteith and Lena Giesbert

Moral economy, intermediaries and intensified competition in the labour market for function musicians pp. 834-850

Charles Umney

Global nursing and the lived experience of migration intermediaries pp. 851-860

Diane van den Broek and Dimitria Groutsis

Explaining vertical gender segregation: a research agenda pp. 861-871

Iñaki R Longarela

Book review symposium: Ruth Milkman, On Gender, Labor, and Inequality, by Jill Rubery pp. 872-873

Jill Rubery

Book review symposium: Ruth Milkman, On Gender, Labor, and Inequality, by Leslie McCall pp. 873-875

Leslie McCall

Book review symposium: Ruth Milkman, On Gender, Labor, and Inequality, by Tracey Warren pp. 875-877

Tracey Warren

Response to reviews of On Gender, Labor, and Inequality pp. 877-879

Ruth Milkman

Book review: Lina Dencik and Peter Wilkin, Worker Resistance and Media: Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century pp. 880-881

Alex J Wood

Book review: Stewart Johnstone and Peter Ackers (eds), Finding A Voice at Work? New Perspectives on Employment Relations pp. 881-883

Maurizio Atzeni

Volume 31, issue 4, 2017

Employee satisfaction and use of flexible working arrangements pp. 567-585

Daniel Wheatley

Public sector austerity cuts in Britain and the changing discourse of work–life balance pp. 586-604

Suzan Lewis, Deirdre Anderson, Clare Lyonette, Nicola Payne and Stephen Wood

Job satisfaction of non-standard workers in Korea: focusing on non-standard workers’ internal and external heterogeneity pp. 605-623

Mihee Park and Joonmo Kang

His or her work–life balance? Experiences of self-employed immigrant parents pp. 624-639

Mai Camilla Munkejord

Exploring the work–life challenges and dilemmas faced by managers and professionals who live alone pp. 640-656

Krystal Wilkinson, Jennifer Tomlinson and Jean Gardiner

Trade union involvement in work–family life balance: lessons from France pp. 657-674

Delphine Brochard and Marie-Thérèse Letablier

‘Doing the brand’: aesthetic labour as situated, relational performance in fashion retail pp. 675-691

Leanne Cutcher and Pamela Achtel

Skill requirements in retail work: the case of high-end fashion retailing pp. 692-708

Dennis Nickson, Robin Price, Hazel Baxter-Reid and Scott A Hurrell

Book review: Minimum Wages, Collective Bargaining and Economic Development in Asia and Europe: A Labour Perspective and Non-Standard Employment in Post-Industrial Labour Markets: An Occupational Perspective pp. 709-711

Jennifer Ferreira

Book review: Christina Garsten and Anette Nyqvist (eds), Organisational Anthropology: Doing Ethnography in and among Complex Organisations pp. 712-713

Xanthe Whittaker

Book review: Jesse Potter, Crisis at Work: Identity and the End of Career pp. 714-715

Maria Adamson

Book review: Jukka Vuori, Roland Blonk and Richard H Price (eds), Sustainable Working Lives: Managing Work Transitions and Health throughout the Life Course pp. 715-717

Josephine Foubert

Book review: Linsey McGoey, No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy pp. 717-718

Scott Taylor

Small business revivalism: employment relations in small and medium-sized enterprises pp. 721-728

Oliver Mallett and Robert Wapshott

Volume 31, issue 3, 2017

Gendered effects of intensified care burdens: employment and sickness absence in families with chronically sick or disabled children in Norway pp. 391-408

Idunn Brekke and Marjan Nadim

The effect of foreign accent on employability: a study of the aural dimensions of aesthetic labour in customer-facing and non-customer-facing jobs pp. 409-428

Andrew R Timming

Escaping the rural pay penalty: location, migration and the labour market pp. 429-446

Martin Culliney

Macho, mobile and resilient? How workers with impairments are doubly disabled in project-based film and television work pp. 447-464

Keith Randle and Kate Hardy

‘Rusty, invisible and threatening’: ageing, capital and employability pp. 465-482

Dina Bowman, Michael McGann, Helen Kimberley and Simon Biggs

Pay equity after the Equality Act 2010: does sexual orientation still matter? pp. 483-500

Alex Bryson

The social norm of unemployment in relation to mental health and medical care use: the role of regional unemployment levels and of displaced workers pp. 501-521

Veerle Buffel, Sarah Missinne and Piet Bracke

The shadow of future homeownership: the association of wanting to move into homeownership with labour supply pp. 522-541

Philipp M Lersch and Wilfred Uunk

‘An end to the job as we know it’: how an IT professional has experienced the uncertainty of IT outsourcing pp. 542-552

Clive Trusson and Frankie Woods

Informal and uncertain: employment relations through the broken mirror of Russian social sciences pp. 553-559

Claudio Morrison and Petr Bizyukov

Book review: Cathryn Costello and Mark Freedland, Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law pp. 560-561

Desai Shan

Book review: A Hodder and L Kretsos (eds), Young Workers and Trade Unions: A Global View pp. 561-562

Jane Holgate

Volume 31, issue 2, 2017

Understanding social exclusion in elite professional service firms: field level dynamics and the ‘professional project’ pp. 211-229

Louise Ashley and Laura Empson

Gender, availability and dual emancipation in the Swedish ICT sector pp. 230-247

Line Holth, Ann Bergman and Robert MacKenzie

The value of and values in the work of teachers in Estonia pp. 248-264

Eeva Kesküla and Krista Loogma

Union learning representatives in the UK: activity, impact and organization pp. 265-283

Richard Saundry, Valerie Antcliff and Alison Hollinrake

Chinese employer associations, institutional complementarity and countervailing power pp. 284-301

Judith Shuqin Zhu and Chris Nyland

The community dimensions of union renewal: racialized and caring relations in personal support services pp. 302-318

Louise Birdsell Bauer and Cynthia Cranford

‘Justice for Janitors’ goes Dutch: the limits and possibilities of unions’ adoption of organizing in a context of regulated social partnership pp. 319-335

Heather Connolly, Stefania Marino and Miguel Martinez Lucio

Mechanisms of invisibility: rethinking the concept of invisible work pp. 336-351

Erin Hatton

Race and racism in an elite postcolonial context: reflections from investment banking pp. 352-362

Ajnesh Prasad and Tanvir Qureshi

Book review symposium: Colin Crouch, Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe by Matt Vidal pp. 363-365

Matt Vidal

Book review symposium: Colin Crouch, Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe by Janine Leschke pp. 365-367

Janine Leschke

Book review symposium: Colin Crouch, Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe by Richard Hyman pp. 367-370

Richard Hyman

Response to reviews of Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe pp. 370-372

Colin Crouch

Neoliberal globalization, unions and labour movement strategies pp. 373-379

George Lafferty

Joint book review: Daniel Berliner, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Milli Lake, Margaret Levi and Jennifer Noveck, Labour Standards in International Supply Chains: Aligning Rights and Incentives and Colin C Williams, Confronting the Shadow Economy: Evaluating Tax Compliance and Behaviour Policies pp. 380-383

Janet Druker

Book review: Kirsty Newsome, Philip Taylor, Jennifer Bair and Al Rainnie (eds), Putting Labour in Its Place: Labour Process Analysis and Global Value Chains pp. 384-385

Christopher Land

Book review: Matthias Ebenau, Ian Bruff and Christian May (eds), New Directions in Comparative Capitalisms Research: Critical and Global Perspectives pp. 385-387

Anita Hammer

Corrigendum pp. 388-388

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Volume 31, issue 1, 2017

Time reclaimed: temporality and the experience of meaningful work pp. 3-18

Catherine Bailey and Adrian Madden

Neo-villeiny and the service sector: the case of hyper flexible and precarious work in fitness centres pp. 19-35

Geraint Harvey, Carl Rhodes, Sheena J Vachhani and Karen Williams

The hidden face of job insecurity pp. 36-53

Duncan Gallie, Alan Felstead, Francis Green and Hande Inanc

‘Disappearing workers’: Foxconn in Europe and the changing role of temporary work agencies pp. 54-70

Rutvica Andrijasevic and Devi Sacchetto

Underemployment and well-being in the UK before and after the Great Recession pp. 71-89

Jason Heyes, Mark Tomlinson and Adam Whitworth

In debt to the time-bank: the manipulation of working time in Indian garment factories and ‘working dead horse’ pp. 90-105

Jean Jenkins and Paul Blyton

Beyond the symbolic: a relational approach to dirty work through a study of refuse collectors and street cleaners pp. 106-122

Jason Hughes, Ruth Simpson, Natasha Slutskaya, Alex Simpson and Kahryn Hughes

Social partnership and political devolution in the National Health Service: emergence, operation and outcomes pp. 123-141

Nicolas Bacon and Peter Samuel

Work in and beyond the Second Machine Age: the politics of production and digital technologies pp. 142-152

David Spencer

An old model of social class? Job characteristics and the NS-SEC schema pp. 153-165

Mark Williams

‘The whole week comes down to the team sheet’: a footballer’s view of insecure work pp. 166-174

Martin Roderick and James Schumacker

‘I’ll do it step by step’: care, cover and quiet campaigning pp. 175-184

Darren McGuire and Maria Lozada

Labour relations and labour unrest in China pp. 185-190

Jessica Pflueger and Antonia Enssner

Trade unions, equality and diversity: an inconsistent record of transformative action pp. 191-196

Susan Milner

Bringing financial regulation back down to earth pp. 197-200

Nathan Coombs

Book review: Alan McKinlay and Philip Taylor, Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization: Inside the Factory of the Future pp. 201-202

Douglas Martin

Book review: Pat O’Connor, Management and Gender in Higher Education pp. 202-204

Richard Courtney

Book review: Andrew Dunn, Rethinking Unemployment and the Work Ethic: Beyond the ‘Quasi-Titmuss’ Paradigm pp. 204-205

Nathan Hudson-Sharp

Book review: Leo McCann, International and Comparative Business: Foundations of Political Economies pp. 206-207

Le Bo