Work, Employment & Society

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Volume 30, issue 6, 2016

Controlling routine front line service workers: an Australian retail supermarket case pp. 915-931

Robin Price

Geographies of the labour process: automation and the spatiality of mining pp. 932-948

Bradon Ellem

Dualization or liberalization? Investigating precarious work in eight European countries pp. 949-965

Thomas Prosser

Deskilling emotional labour: evidence from department store retail pp. 966-983

Peter Ikeler

Disability and ‘care’: managers, employees and colleagues with impairments negotiating the social order of disability pp. 984-999

Nanna Mik-Meyer

‘If you are having a go at me, I am going to have a go at you’: the changing nature of social relationships of bank work under performance management pp. 1000-1016

Knut Laaser

Reconstruction and restoration: the legacies of post-war German Industrial Sociology pp. 1017-1029

Holm-Detlev Köhler

Union formation and worker resistance in a multinational: A personal account of an Asian cabin crew member in UK civil aviation pp. 1030-1038

Iona Byford and Susan Wong

Book review symposium: Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby, Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy pp. 1039-1040

Carol Wolkowitz

Book review symposium: Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby, Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy pp. 1041-1042

Kristin Peterson

Book review symposium: Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby, Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy pp. 1042-1044

Alys Eve Weinbaum

Book review symposium: Authors’ response to reviews of Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy pp. 1044-1047

Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby

Joint book review pp. 1048-1051

Ewa Sadurska-Duffy

Book review: Thomas Janoski, David Luke and Christopher Oliver, The Causes of Structural Unemployment: Four Factors That Keep People from the Jobs They Deserve pp. 1052-1053

Ed Yates

Book review: Greg Hearn, Ruth Bridgstock, Ben Goldsmith and Jess Rodgers (eds), Creative Work beyond the Creative Industries: Innovation, Employment and Education pp. 1053-1055

Kathy Williams

Thank you to referees pp. 1056-1056

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Volume 30, issue 5, 2016

How institutions matter for job characteristics, quality and experiences: a comparison of home care work for older people in Australia and Sweden pp. 731-749

Gabrielle Meagher, Marta Szebehely and Jane Mears

Rule breaking in social care: hierarchy, contentiousness and informal rules pp. 750-765

Dermot Breslin and Geoffrey Wood

Labour casualization and the psychosocial health of workers in Australia pp. 766-782

Michael McGann, Kevin White and Jeremy Moss

Managerial abuse and the process of absence among mental health staff pp. 783-801

Stephen Wood, Karen Niven and Johan Braeken

Why do occupations dominated by women pay less? How ‘female-typical’ work tasks and working-time arrangements affect the gender wage gap among higher education graduates pp. 802-820

Kathrin Leuze and Susanne Strauß

Gluing, catching and connecting: how informal childcare strengthens single mothers’ employment trajectories pp. 821-837

Michelle Brady

Britain’s slow movement to a gender egalitarian equilibrium: parents and employment in the UK 2001–13 pp. 838-857

Sara Connolly, Matthew Aldrich, Margaret O’Brien, Svetlana Speight and Eloise Poole

Safety at the workplace: accidents and illnesses pp. 858-875

Martina Cioni and Marco Savioli

Immigrant occupational mobility in Australia pp. 876-889

Christopher Fleming, Temesgen Kifle and Parvinder Kler

Foreword pp. 890-890

Vanessa Beck

Reflections on Ulrich Beck’s legacy in the field of youth transitions and employment pp. 891-892

Karen Evans

Beck’s unintended legacy for class analysis pp. 892-894

Will Atkinson

Social exclusion pp. 894-896

Dean Curran

Understanding contemporary employment insecurity: Beck’s legacy pp. 896-898

Sharni Chan and Dale Tweedie

Joint book review: Sharon Louden (ed.), Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists and Manos Spyridakis, The Liminal Worker: An Ethnography of Work, Unemployment and Precariousness in Contemporary Greece pp. 899-901

Anna Paraskevopoulou

Joint book review:Tony ElgerRuth Milkman and Ed Ott (eds), New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement; Gilbert Felipe Mireles, Continuing La Causa: Organizing Labor in California’s Strawberry Fields pp. 902-905

Tony Elger

Book review: Sarah Besky, The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India pp. 906-907

Linda Nierling

Volume 30, issue 4, 2016

The strange non-retreat of the state: implications for the sociology of work pp. 559-572

Guglielmo Meardi, Jimmy Donaghey and Deborah Dean

Regulating class in the neoliberal era: the role of the state in the restructuring of work and employment relations pp. 573-589

Chris Howell

Labour market regulation and the ‘competition state’: an analysis of the implementation of the Agency Working Regulations in the UK pp. 590-606

Chris Forde and Gary Slater

Female employment and elderly care: the role of care policies and culture in 21 European countries pp. 607-630

Manuela Naldini, Emmanuele Pavolini and Cristina Solera

State categories and labour protest: migrant workers and the fight for legal status in France pp. 631-648

Pierre Barron, Anne Bory, Sébastien Chauvin, Nicolas Jounin and Lucie Tourette

Non-profits and the ‘hollowed out’ state: the transformation of working conditions through personalizing social care services during an era of austerity pp. 649-668

Ian Cunningham

Bounded or boundaryless? An empirical investigation of career boundaries and boundary crossing pp. 669-686

Ricardo Rodrigues, David Guest and Alexandra Budjanovcanin

Exploring the private pension gender gap and occupation in later working life pp. 687-707

Jean Gardiner, Andrew M Robinson and Fathi Fakhfakh

‘Nimble’ intersectionality in employment research: a way to resolve methodological dilemmas pp. 708-718

Shelagh Mooney

Joint book review:Karim WF YoussefJacek Tittenbrun, Anti-Capital: Human, Social and Cultural and Maurizio Atzeni (ed.), Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism: Contemporary Themes and Theoretical Issues pp. 719-721

Karim WF Youssef

Book review: Christoph Hermann, Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time pp. 722-723

David A Spencer

Book review: Lucia Pradella, Globalisation and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx’s Writings pp. 723-725

Joseph Choonara

Book review: Dan Zuberi, Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients pp. 725-726

Steve Davies

Volume 30, issue 3, 2016

Labour market outcomes of immigrants in a South European country: do race and religion matter? pp. 391-409

Giovanna Fullin

Beyond culture: source country female labour force participation and the earnings of immigrant women pp. 410-435

Kristyn Frank and Feng Hou

Social distance and wage inequalities for immigrants in Switzerland pp. 436-454

Christian Ebner and Marc Helbling

Migrant workers’ engagement with labour market intermediaries in Europe: symbolic power guiding transnational exchange pp. 455-471

Barbara Samaluk

Reworking labour practices: on the agency of unorganized mobile migrant construction workers pp. 472-488

Lisa Berntsen

Fitting the bill? (Dis)embodied disclosure of sexual identities in the workplace pp. 489-505

Anna Einarsdóttir, Helge Hoel and Duncan Lewis

Identity-in-the-work and musicians’ struggles: the production of self-questioning identity work pp. 506-522

Nic Beech, Charlotte Gilmore, Paul Hibbert and Sierk Ybema

Commercial migration intermediaries and the segmentation of skilled migrant employment pp. 523-534

Di van den Broek, William Harvey and Dimitria Groutsis

Using social media content for screening in recruitment and selection: pros and cons pp. 535-546

Debora Jeske and Kenneth S Shultz

Book review: Abdulhadi Khalaf, Omar AlShehabi and Adam Hanieh (eds), Transit States: Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf pp. 547-548

Zinovijus Ciupijus

Book review: Alice Bloch, Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter, Sans Papier: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants pp. 548-550

James Tangen

Book review: Arianna Rossi, Amy Luinstra and John Pickles (eds), Towards Better Work: Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains pp. 550-552

Roseline Wanjiru

Book review: Maarten Keune and Amparo Serrano (eds), Deconstructing Flexicurity and Developing Alternative Approaches: Towards New Concepts and Approaches for Employment and Social Policy pp. 552-553

Varvara Lalioti

Book review: Benjamin Selwyn, The Global Development Crisis pp. 553-555

Allan Souza Queiroz

Book review: Jamie Cross, Dream Zones: Anticipating Capitalism and Development in India pp. 555-556

Anita Hammer

Volume 30, issue 2, 2016

Work, employment and society sans frontières: extending and deepening our reach pp. 211-219

Vanessa Beck, Paul Brook, Bob Carter, Ian Clark, Andy Danford, Nik Hammer, Shireen Kanji and Melanie Simms

Running with ‘wolves’ or waiting for a happy release? Evaluating routes to gender equality pp. 220-236

Martin Beirne and Fiona Wilson

Gender and the achievement of skilled status in the workplace: the case of women leaders in the UK Fire and Rescue Service pp. 237-255

Ruth Woodfield

Family policies and fathers’ working hours: cross-national differences in the paternal labour supply pp. 256-274

Mareike Bünning and Matthias Pollmann-Schult

Fathers and flexible parental leave pp. 275-290

Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande

Work interruptions and young women’s career prospects in Germany, Sweden and the US pp. 291-308

Marie Evertsson, Daniela Grunow and Silke Aisenbrey

Employment status and subjective well-being: the role of the social norm to work pp. 309-333

Kirsten Stam, Inge Sieben, Ellen Verbakel and Paul M de Graaf

Seeking a role: disciplining jobseekers as actors in the labour market pp. 334-351

Tom Boland

Financialization and value: why labour and the labour process still matter pp. 352-365

Jean Cushen and Paul Thompson

The post-industrial society: from utopia to ideology pp. 366-376

Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt

Work–family balance in international perspective pp. 377-379

Narjes Mehdizadeh

Book review: Jane Horan, How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global Corporations pp. 380-381

Maria Adamson

Book review: Maura J Mills (ed.), Gender and the Work–Family Experience: An Intersection of Two Domains pp. 381-383

Mariska van der Horst

Book review: Madonna Harrington Meyer, Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs pp. 383-384

David Lain and Wendy Loretto

Book review: Philip Taylor (ed.), Older Workers in an Ageing Society: Critical Topics in Research and Policy pp. 385-386

Martin O’Brien

Volume 30, issue 1, 2016

Tracking habitus across a transnational professional field pp. 3-20

Crawford Spence, Chris Carter, Ataur Belal, Javier Husillos, Claire Dambrin and Pablo Archel

Managers’ work and retirement: understanding the connections pp. 21-39

Bill Martin and Mary Dean Lee

The gender wage gap in highly prestigious occupations: a case study of Swedish medical doctors pp. 40-58

Charlotta Magnusson

Ethnic gatekeeping on the shopfloor: a study of bases, motives and approaches pp. 59-76

Lloyd C Harris and Emmanuel Ogbonna

Customer-driven management models for choiceless clientele? Business process reengineering in a California welfare agency pp. 77-96

Jill Esbenshade, Matt Vidal, Gina Fascilla and Mariko Ono

Does adult education contribute to securing non-precarious employment? A cross-national comparison pp. 97-117

Daniela Vono de Vilhena, Yuliya Kosyakova, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen and Patricia McMullin

Workplace sexual harassment at the margins pp. 118-134

Paula McDonald and Sara Charlesworth

Manufacturing rate busters: computer control and social relations in the labour process pp. 135-151

Christopher Shane Elliott and Gary Long

‘It’s a tough drug to kick’: a woman’s career in broadcasting pp. 152-161

Doris Ruth Eikhof and Charlotte York

Welfare reform, precarity and the re-commodification of labour pp. 162-173

Ian Greer

Book review symposium: Huw Beynon, Working for Ford: Men, Masculinity, Mass Production and Militancy pp. 174-176

Paul Edwards

Book review symposium: Huw Beynon, Working for Ford: Men, Masculinity, Mass Production and Militancy pp. 176-179

Linda McDowell

Book review symposium: Huw Beynon, Working for Ford: Men, Masculinity, Mass Production and Militancy pp. 179-181

José Ricardo Ramalho

Book review symposium: Response to reviews of Huw Beynon, Working for Ford: Men, Masculinity, Mass Production and Militancy pp. 181-191

Huw Beynon

Options and opportunities for women’s workplace engagement pp. 192-197

Karen S Markel

Book review: Stephen Sweet and Peter Meiksins, Changing Contours of Work: Jobs and Opportunities in the New Economy, 2nd Edition pp. 198-199

Maria-Carmen Pantea

Book review: Adrian Wilkinson, Jimmy Donaghey, Tony Dundon and Richard B Freeman (eds), Handbook of Research on Employee Voice pp. 199-201

Andrew R Timming

Book review: Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt, Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street pp. 201-202

Paul Thompson

Book review: Jake Rosenfeld, What Unions No Longer Do pp. 202-204

Mark Williams