Work, Employment & Society

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Volume 29, issue 6, 2015

Workplace partnership and legitimacy: a multi-layered analysis of the shop steward experience pp. 895-911

Peter Butler and Olga Tregaskis

Militant partnership: a radical pluralist analysis of workforce dialectics pp. 912-931

Tony Dundon and Tony Dobbins

The labour of learning: overcoming the obstacles facing union-worker centre collaborations pp. 932-949

Gabriel Hetland

The work-related affordances of business travel: a disaggregated analysis of journey stage and mode of transport pp. 950-968

Donald Hislop and Carolyn Axtell

The evolution of false self-employment in the British construction industry: a neo-Polanyian account of labour market formation pp. 969-988

Felix Behling and Mark Harvey

Resistance to teamworking in a UK research and development laboratory pp. 989-1006

Denise Thursfield

Work beyond the bounds: a boundary analysis of the fragmentation of work pp. 1007-1018

Erin Hatton

The expectations and aspirations of a late-career professional woman pp. 1019-1028

Carol Atkinson, Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding and Flora Jones

Book review symposium: Ã…ke Sandberg (ed.), Nordic Lights: Work, Management and Welfare in Scandinavia pp. 1029-1030

Ann Bergman

Book review symposium: Ã…ke Sandberg (ed.), Nordic Lights: Work, Management and Welfare in Scandinavia pp. 1031-1033

Gerhard Bosch

Book review symposium: Ã…ke Sandberg (ed.), Nordic Lights: Work, Management and Welfare in Scandinavia pp. 1033-1035

Stephen Ackroyd

Book review symposium: Response to reviews of Ã…ke Sandberg (ed.), Nordic Lights: Work, Management and Welfare in Scandinavia pp. 1035-1037

Åke Sandberg

Book review: Michael J White and Jennifer E Glick, Achieving Anew: How New Immigrants Do in American Schools, Jobs and Neighborhoods pp. 1038-1039

Natalia C Malancu

Book review: Linda Milbourne, Voluntary Sector in Transition: Hard Times or New Opportunities? pp. 1040-1041

Lee Gregory

Book review: Eric S Brown, The Black Professional Middle Class: Race, Class, and Community in the Post-Civil Rights Era pp. 1041-1043

Rima Saini

Thank you to referees pp. 1044-1045

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Books for review pp. 1046-1046

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Volume 29, issue 5, 2015

Households’ responses to spousal job loss: ‘all change’ or ‘carry on as usual’? pp. 703-719

Karon Gush, James Scott and Heather Laurie

Coping with unemployment among journalists and managers pp. 720-737

Petteri Raito and Eero Lahelma

The health and well-being of bankers following downsizing: a comparison of stayers and leavers pp. 738-756

à sta Snorradóttir, Kristinn Tómasson, Rúnar Vilhjálmsson and Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir

Flexible working and work–life balance: midwives’ experiences and views pp. 757-774

Julie Prowse and Peter Prowse

Managing patient emotions as skilled work and being ‘one of us’ pp. 775-791

Ian Kessler, Paul Heron and Sue Dopson

The ideal worker as real abstraction: labour conflict and subjectivity in nursing pp. 792-807

Magnus Granberg

Trade unions and labour market dualisation: a comparison of policies and attitudes towards agency and migrant workers in Germany and Belgium pp. 808-825

Valeria Pulignano, Guglielmo Meardi and Nadja Doerflinger

Trade unions, special structures and the inclusion of migrant workers: on the role of union democracy pp. 826-842

Stefania Marino

The essence of trade unions: understanding identity, ideology and purpose pp. 843-854

Andy Hodder and Paul Edwards

Examining hybrid nurse managers as a case of identity transition in healthcare: developing a balanced research agenda pp. 855-865

Graeme Currie and Charlotte Croft

‘For this I was made’: conflict and calling in the role of a woman priest pp. 866-874

Adrian Madden, Catherine Bailey and Reverend Canon Jean Kerr

Parenting, work and the marketization of family life pp. 875-880

John G Cullen

Book review: Saskia Sassen, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy pp. 881-882

Tom Gillespie

Book review: Guy Standing, A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens pp. 883-884

Nathan Hudson-Sharp

Book review: Tom Malleson, After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century pp. 884-886

Alex J Wood

Book review: Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State pp. 886-887

Gemma Wibberley

Book review: Christel Lane, The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine Dining pp. 887-889

Rebecca Stanyer

Books for review pp. 890-890

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Volume 29, issue 4, 2015

Gendered work–family conflict in Germany: do self-employment and flexibility matter? pp. 531-549

Stefanie König and Beate Cesinger

The gender gap in employment hours: do work-hour regulations matter? pp. 550-570

Liana Christin Landivar

Gender differences in working at home and time use patterns: evidence from Australia pp. 571-589

Abigail Powell and Lyn Craig

Towards a Bourdieusian analysis of the social composition of the UK film and television workforce pp. 590-606

Keith Randle, Cynthia Forson and Moira Calveley

On the role of habitus and field in apprenticeships pp. 607-623

Wolfgang Lehmann and Alison Taylor

Alone in the back office: the isolation of those who care to support public services pp. 624-640

Clare Butler, Anne Marie Doherty, Jocelyn Finniear and Stephen Hill

Spillover and conflict in collective bargaining: evidence from a survey of Dutch union and firm negotiators pp. 641-660

Alex Lehr, Agnes Akkerman and René Torenvlied

Rethinking the relationship between gender and technology: a study of the Indian example pp. 661-672

Namrata Gupta

‘Yes Chef’: life at the vanguard of culinary excellence pp. 673-681

Robin Burrow, John Smith and Christalla Yakinthou

Book review symposium: Linda McDowell, Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945–2007 pp. 682-684

Miriam Glucksmann

Book review symposium: Linda McDowell, Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945–2007 pp. 684-686

Cathy McIlwaine

Book review symposium: Linda McDowell, Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945–2007 pp. 686-688

Beverley Skeggs

Book review symposium: We are labour: response to reviews of Linda McDowell, Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945–2007 pp. 689-691

Linda McDowell

Book review: Nicole Constable, Born out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor pp. 692-693

Sean H Wang

Book review: Satnam Virdee, Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider pp. 694-695

Jane Holgate

Book review: Savita Kumra, Ruth Simpson and Ronald J Burke (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations pp. 695-697

Tessa Wright

Book review: Emily van der Meulen, Elya M Durisin and Victoria Love (eds), Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy and Research on Sex Work in Canada pp. 697-698

Mary Laing

Books for review pp. 699-699

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Volume 29, issue 3, 2015

Why migrants earn less: in search of the factors producing the ethno-migrant pay gap in a Dutch public organization pp. 371-391

Hans Siebers and Jilles van Gastel

Migrant workers and the north of Ireland: between neo-liberalism and sectarianism pp. 392-408

Brian Garvey and Paul Stewart

The dynamics of union responses to migrant workers in Canada pp. 409-426

Jason Foster, Alison Taylor and Candy Khan

‘Flexible’ workers for ‘flexible’ jobs? The labour market function of A8 migrant labour in the UK pp. 427-443

David McCollum and Allan Findlay

Social movement unionism in practice: organizational dimensions of union mobilization in the Los Angeles immigrant rights marches pp. 444-461

Cassandra Engeman

Getting your hands dirty: critical action research in a state agency pp. 462-478

Monder Ram, Paul Edwards, Trevor Jones, Alex Kiselinchev and Lovemore Muchenje

Transient craft: reclaiming the contemporary craft worker pp. 479-495

Helen Holmes

Towards Critical Human Resource Management Education (CHRME): a sociological imagination approach pp. 496-507

John Bratton and Jeff Gold

Pills, ills and the ugly face of aesthetic labour: ‘They should’ve discriminated against me’ pp. 508-516

Clare Butler and Joanne Harris

The transformation of work and industrial relations in the post-Soviet bloc: 25 years on from 1989 pp. NP1-NP11

Martin Upchurch, Richard Croucher, Hanna Danilovich and Claudio Morrison

Volume 29, issue 2, 2015

Work-time underemployment and financial hardship: class inequalities and recession in the UK pp. 191-212

Tracey Warren

Discrimination in the labour market: nationality, ethnicity and the recession pp. 213-232

Gillian Kingston, Frances McGinnity and Philip J O’Connell

Gender, age and flexible working in later life pp. 233-249

Wendy Loretto and Sarah Vickerstaff

Making sense of self-employment in late career: understanding the identity work of olderpreneurs pp. 250-266

Oliver Mallett and Robert Wapshott

The (performance) management of retirement and the limits of individual choice pp. 267-277

Vanessa Beck and Glynne Williams

Branding resources: extractive communities, industrial brandscapes and themed environments pp. 278-294

Rebecca Scott and Elizabeth Bennett

The importance of socio-spatial influences in shaping young people’s employment aspirations: case study evidence from three British cities pp. 295-313

Richard J White and Anne E Green

Rethinking job satisfaction in care work: looking beyond the care debates pp. 314-330

Gail Hebson, Jill Rubery and Damian Grimshaw

Intersectionality: are we taking enough notice in the field of work and employment relations? pp. 331-341

Anne McBride, Gail Hebson and Jane Holgate

Workplace bullying: exploring an emerging framework pp. 342-353

Adriana Berlingieri

From the middle to the margins: addressing job insecurity, income inequality and social fragmentation pp. 354-360

George Lafferty

Book review: Paul Edwards, Joe O’Mahoney and Steve Vincent (eds), Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism: A Practical Guide pp. 361-362

Christopher McLachlan

Book review: Rebecca Selberg, Femininity at Work: Gender, Labour and Changing Relations of Power in a Swedish Hospital pp. 362-364

Hans Rollmann

Book review: Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen, Teela Sanders and Kate Hardy (eds), Body/Sex/Work: Intimate, Embodied and Sexualized Labour pp. 364-366

Eileen Boris

Re-engagement with the employee participation debate: beyond the case of contested and captured terrain pp. NP1-NP13

Paul J Gollan and Ying Xu

Volume 29, issue 1, 2015

Gender, work orientations and job satisfaction pp. 3-22

Min Zou

Sharing the load? Partners’ relative earnings and the division of domestic labour pp. 23-40

Clare Lyonette and Rosemary Crompton

Building China: precarious employment among migrant construction workers pp. 41-59

Sarah Swider

Visible tattoos in the service sector: a new challenge to recruitment and selection pp. 60-78

Andrew R Timming

Cabin crew collectivism: labour process and the roots of mobilization pp. 79-98

Phil Taylor and Sian Moore

The bigger the worse? A comparative study of the welfare state and employment commitment pp. 99-118

Kjetil A van der Wel and Knut Halvorsen

The political economy of ‘lap dancing’: contested careers and women’s work in the stripping industry pp. 119-136

Kate Hardy and Teela Sanders

Transnational regulation of temporary agency work compromised partnership between Private Employment Agencies and Global Union Federations pp. 137-153

Elizabeth Cotton

Sociology of professions: international divergences and research directions pp. 154-165

Tracey L Adams

Making interview transcripts real: the reader’s response pp. 166-176

Clare Butler