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Disability and Academic Careers: Using the Social Relational Model to Reveal the Role of Human Resource Management Practices in Creating Disability Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Katherine Sang, Thomas Calvard, Jennifer Remnant
Disabled people continue to face a variety of significant barriers to full participation and inclusion in work and employment. However, their experiences remain only sparsely discussed in relation to human resource management (HRM) practices and employment contexts. The current study contributes to this gap in understanding by drawing together relevant work connecting HRM practices, diversity management
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Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Syed Imran Saqib, Matthew MC Allen, Geoffrey Wood
New institutionalism increasingly informs work on comparative human resource management (HRM), downplaying power and how competing logics play out, and potentially providing an incomplete explanation of how and why ‘HRM’ and associated practices vary in different national contexts. We examine HRM in Pakistan’s banking industry and assess how managers’ espoused views of HRM practices reflect prevailing
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Organisational Social Mobility Programmes as Mechanisms of Power and Control Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 Louise Ashley
Successive UK governments have blamed poor rates of relative social mobility on the tendency of elite occupations to exclude according to social class. Organisational programmes implemented in response aim to identify talented young people from less privileged socio-economic backgrounds, help them identify as ‘legitimate’ professionals, and equip them with relevant knowledge and skills. Based on interviews
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Economic Inactivity, Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and Scarring: The Importance of NEET as a Marker of Long-Term Disadvantage Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Kevin Ralston, Dawn Everington, Zhiqiang Feng, Chris Dibben
The category of not in employment, education or training (NEET) refers to young people who are recorded as neither in paid employment nor formal education either at one time point, or for a continuous period. This article assesses levels of employment scarring for those aged 36–39, at Census 2011 (prime employment years) who were recorded as NEET when aged 16–19 at Census 1991 in Scotland. Outcomes
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Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: Evidence for European Employees Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Dagmara Nikulin, Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz, Aleksandra Parteka
This article investigates a sample of almost nine million workers from 24 European countries in 2014 to conclude how involvement in global value chains (GVCs) affects working conditions. We use employer–employee data from the Structure of Earnings Survey merged with industry-level statistics on GVCs based on the World Input-Output Database. Given the multidimensional nature of the dependent variable
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Motherhood 2.0: Slow Progress for Career Women and Motherhood within the ‘Finnish Dream’ Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Charlotta Niemistö, Jeff Hearn, Carolyn Kehn, Annamari Tuori
This article investigates the gendered dynamics of motherhood and careers, as voiced by professionals in the knowledge-intensive business sector in Finland. It is informed by the CIAR method through 81 iterative, in-depth interviews with 23 women and 19 men. Among the women respondents with no children, one child, or two children, three dominant forms of discursive talk emerge: ‘It takes two to tango’
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When Values and Ethics of Care Conflict: A Lived Experience in the Roman Catholic Church Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Krystin Zigan, YingFei G Héliot, Alan Le Grys
This article investigates contemporary understandings of the ethics of care. While the ethics of care is predominantly known as showing empathy and support to others, analysing the complex relationship between institutional and personal values of clerical leaders and the congregation in the Roman Catholic Church in England reveals very different understandings. The sociological and psychological concepts
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Women Managers’ Impact on Use of Family-friendly Measures among Their Subordinates in Japanese Firms Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Makiko Fuwa
Using data from the Survey on Support for Work–Life Balance conducted in Japan, this study investigates the role of female managers in enhancing their male and female subordinates’ access to family-friendly measures in the workplace. Research on organisational gender inequality has proposed two contrasting perspectives regarding the impact of female managers on gender inequality, describing female
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Resisting Patriarchal Cultures: The Case of Female Spanish Home-Based Teleworkers Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Ana Gálvez, Francisco Tirado, Jose M Alcaraz
This article explores the role of resistance as a micro-political practice carried out by female Spanish teleworkers. Drawing on a qualitative study focused on female workers in different cities in Spain, we conceive telework as a labour logic in which resistance is the cornerstone of meaning and subjectivity creation. Micro-practices of resistance are analysed following de Certeau’s notion of tactics
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Job Satisfaction and Sexual Orientation in Britain Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Sait Bayrakdar, Andrew King
Studies looking at patterns of labour market outcomes among lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals focus mostly on earnings, while non-pecuniary outcomes of LGB individuals have remained a relatively under-researched area. Using the latest wave of the Workplace Employment Relations Study (WERS), this article investigates the job satisfaction levels of LGB individuals compared to their heterosexual
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Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Assaf S Bondy
Liberalisation of industrial relations entails the weakening of unions and a respective rise of alternative, ‘new labour actors’, altering traditional class representation by introducing new strategies. Research on this phenomenon has focused on decentralised contexts, where new actors are seen to pursue both independent strategies as well as cooperation with unions to contest rising employers’ discretion
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Relationship-Based Care Work, Austerity and Aged Care Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-01-31 Donna Baines, Annabel Dulhunty, Sara Charlesworth
Home care and aged care in English-speaking countries around the globe have enthusiastically taken up a model of work known as ‘relationship-based care’ (RBC). Part of the popularity of RBC is because it does not challenge austerity, underfunding, and extensive managerialism. Instead it works within and through them to foster caring connections between patients, staff, and families, and is able to
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When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Natalie Galea, Abigail Powell, Fanny Salignac, Louise Chappell, Martin Loosemore
The construction industry is known to be highly masculinised and to have work practices detrimental to employees’ wellbeing. Drawing on feminist institutional theory and a rapid ethnographic approach in two construction multinationals in Australia, we examine the relationship between the gendered nature of construction and workplace wellbeing for professional women and men employed in the industry
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Families under Pressure: The Costs of Vocational Calling, and What Can Be Done about Them Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-01-25 Stephanos Anastasiadis, Anica Zeyen
This conceptual article extends the literature on the disadvantages of calling. The article makes four main contributions. First, it argues that some of the burden of calling is shouldered not by called individuals or their employers, but rather by close family members. Second, it argues that calling influences work–life ideology, limiting a called person’s ability to exercise choice and self-manage
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Emotional Labour and the Autonomy of Dependent Self-Employed Workers: The Limitations of Digital Managerial Control in the Home Credit Sector Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-01-17 Esme Terry, Abigail Marks, Arek Dakessian, Dimitris Christopoulos
Changes to the labour process in the home credit sector have exposed the industry’s agency workforce to increased levels of digital managerial control through the introduction of lending applications and algorithmic decision-making techniques. This article highlights the heterogeneous nature of the impact of digitalisation on the labour process and worker autonomy – specifically, in terms of workers’
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Doing and Negotiating Transgender on the Front Line: Customer Abuse, Transphobia and Stigma in the Food Retail Sector Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Anastasios Hadjisolomou
Despite growing research on LGBT+ populations, few studies have examined transgender individuals’ specific workplace experiences, whose voice is often subsumed in a wider category. This article presents the story of Kathrine, a female transgender food retail worker, and discusses the abusive, discriminatory and transphobic behaviour of customers, which has received limited attention in the sociology
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Masters of None? How Cultural Workers Use Reframing to Achieve Legitimacy in Portfolio Careers Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Allyson Stokes
This article examines how cultural workers interpret and respond to reputational challenges they encounter when leading portfolio careers. Specifically, the portfolio career model involves the cultivation and signalling of adaptability through broad competencies and diverse portfolios comprised of boundary-spanning work. These practices conflict with standards of artistic legitimacy and highlight
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Data Scientists’ Identity Work: Omnivorous Symbolic Boundaries in Skills Acquisition Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-01-10 Netta Avnoon
Drawing on theories from the sociology of work and the sociology of culture, this article argues that members of nascent technical occupations construct their professional identity and claim status through an omnivorous approach to skills acquisition. Based on a discursive analysis of 56 semi-structured in-depth interviews with data scientists, data science professors and managers in Israel, it was
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Residential Care Aides’ Experiences of Workplace Incivility in Long-Term Care Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2021-01-10 Heather A Cooke, Jennifer Baumbusch
Exposure to peer incivility and bullying potentially disrupts the respectful, collaborative workplace relationships essential to quality care provision in long-term care homes. This study critically examined the nature of peer incivility and bullying in residential care aides’ workplace relationships. Using critical ethnography, 100 hours of participant observation and 33 semi-structured interviews
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Flexible Work, Temporal Disruption and Implications for Health Practices: An Australian Qualitative Study Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-25 Ginny M Sargent, Julia McQuoid, Jane Dixon, Cathy Banwell, Lyndall Strazdins
Flexible work provisions are justified as enabling workers to manage their personal lives, including their health, around work. This study deploys social theories of practice to investigate how the temporal characteristics of flexible work can produce, alter and disrupt the health improvement efforts of workers, concentrating on healthy eating and keeping physically active. Drawing from in-depth interviews
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Deservingness, Conditionality and Public Perceptions of Work Disability: The Influence of Economic Inequality Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-25 Rossella Ciccia, Declan French, Frank Kee, Mark O’Doherty
This article contributes to classical debates about the role of self-interest and social norms in shaping the moral economy of work and welfare by incorporating economic inequalities in the analysis of opinions about welfare deservingness. The relationship between inequality and perceptions of work conditionality has received little attention in previous studies. This article addresses this issue by
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McStrike! Framing, (Political) Opportunity and the Development of a Collective Identity: McDonald’s and the UK Fast-Food Rights Campaign Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Tony Royle, Yvonne Rueckert
This article examines the development of the UK ‘Fast-Food Rights Campaign’ and the formation of a collective identity amongst McDonald’s UK workers. It illustrates how, despite an acquiescent and fragmented workforce, workers diagnostically frame (recognize, articulate and attribute) perceived injustices relating to their pay and working conditions. However, the main focus is on prognostic framing
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Configurations of Boundary Management Practices among Knowledge Workers Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Stefanie C Reissner, Michal Izak, Donald Hislop
While the literature in relation to managing the work-nonwork boundary retains a strong focus on the consistent use of segmenting or integrating boundary management practices, recent studies indicate that individuals’ behaviours are often inconsistent. To add to this emerging strand of research, this article is set in the context of flexible working to examine how knowledge workers use time, space
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‘I Have a Newborn at Home’: Multi-actor Attributions and the Implementation of Shared Parental Leave Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Sara Chaudhry, Ishbel McWha-Hermann, Sophie Flemig, Arleta Blackley-Wiertelak
This article studies the organizational implementation of public policy, specifically shared parental leave (SPL) legislation (2015), through the lens of attribution theory (that is, actors’ inferences for why policies are implemented by their employing organization), drawing on 26 in-depth interviews with a range of actors in a British university. Our findings highlight that attributions vary between
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Means of Control in the Organization of Digitally Intermediated Care Work Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Paula McDonald, Penny Williams, Robyn Mayes
Digital platforms that facilitate care work are new entrants to the intermediary marketplace and they are growing in number in response to rising demand for care services. This study examines, through the lens of labour process theory, the means of control utilized by digital platforms operating in Australia which organize and direct disability and aged care. The analysis of terms and conditions and
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Desperate Housewives and Happy Working Mothers: Are Parent-Couples with Equal Income More Satisfied throughout Parenthood? A Dyadic Longitudinal Study Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Laura Langner
Are parent-couples with equal income more satisfied as their children grow up, than those who prioritize the father’s career (specialize)? For the first time, 384 German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study couples were categorized into life-course coupled earnings types, by tracing how earnings were divided within couples between the ages of 1 to 15 of their youngest child. Multivariate, multilevel analysis
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The Menopause Taboo at Work: Examining Women’s Embodied Experiences of Menopause in the UK Police Service Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Carol Atkinson, Fiona Carmichael, Jo Duberley
This article contributes to the growing body of knowledge about gendered ageing at work through an examination of the embodied experiences of women undergoing menopause transition in the UK police service. Drawing on 1197 survey responses, providing both quantitative and qualitative data gathered across three police forces in 2017–18, the findings highlight the importance of a material-discursive approach
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‘We Don’t Have the Same Opportunities as Others’: Shining Bourdieu’s Lens on UK Roma Migrants’ Precarious (Workers) Habitus Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-19 Patricia Harrison, Helen Collins, Alexandra Bahor
According to a 2019 UK government report, Roma had the ‘worst employment outcomes’ of any ethnic group in the UK with similar evidence in Europe. Roma are in the growing flexible, mobile workforce that constitute precarious, insecure workers. Based on a qualitative in-depth study of these precarious workers, and utilising Bourdieu’s concepts, we show the impact of flexploitation, while sharing Roma’s
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University or Degree Apprenticeship? Stratification and Uncertainty in Routes to the Solicitors’ Profession Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Caroline Casey, Paul Wakeling
This article considers whether degree apprenticeships could disrupt traditional university routes to professional careers and redress longstanding inequalities in access between individuals from different social backgrounds. Using the solicitors’ profession as a pertinent case, issues of access and choice are explored, utilising Breen and Goldthorpe’s theory of Relative Risk Aversion to understand
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‘My Life Is More Valuable Than This’: Understanding Risk among On-Demand Food Couriers in Edinburgh Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Karen Gregory
Drawing from the social study of the gig economy and platform labour and from the sociology of risk, this article explores how on-demand food couriers in Edinburgh, Scotland, construct and represent work-related risks. By taking the gig economy’s contested and contentious status of ‘self-employment’ as a starting point, this article positions couriers as experts of their own work process and draws
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Bringing Women on Board? Family Policies, Quotas and Gender Diversity in Top Jobs Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Helen Kowalewska
An influential body of work has identified a ‘welfare-state paradox’: work–family policies that bring women into the workforce also undermine women’s access to the top jobs. Missing from this literature is a consideration of how welfare-state interventions impact on women’s representation at the board-level specifically, rather than managerial and lucrative positions more generally. This article contributes
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Profit over People? Evaluating Morality on the Front Line during the COVID-19 Crisis: A Front-Line Service Manager’s Confession and Regrets Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Anastasios Hadjisolomou, Sam Simone
This article gives voice to a front-line manager in food retailing, discussing her experiences during the COVID-19 outbreak which, overnight, became an ‘essential service’, leaving employees exposed to the virus. The article utilizes the ‘moral economy’ framework to understand how organizational policies, which were developed by senior management and implemented by front-line managers, denied human
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Why Do Humans Remain Central to the Knowledge Work in the Age of Robots? Marx’s Fragment on Machines and Beyond Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Emrah Karakilic
The integration of new technologies into the process of production has recently resuscitated the question of world-without-work. Accounts that regard a workless future as a strong possibility often base their arguments on a body of work that upholds that new machines already tend to eliminate the category of work, including knowledge work. This article challenges this view by revisiting Marx’s Fragment
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Dementia, Work and Employability: Using the Capability Approach to Understand the Employability Potential for People Living with Dementia Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Louise Ritchie, Valerie Egdell, Michael Danson, Mandy Cook, Jill Stavert, Debbie Tolson
The importance of remaining in, or re-entering, the labour market is emphasised by governments internationally. While this may bring benefits, progressive disabilities such as dementia affect an individual’s employability. Although employers have legal obligations to support employees with disabilities, research suggests that employers are not providing this support to employees living with dementia
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‘It’s Like a War Zone’: Jay’s Liminal Experience of Normal and Extreme Work in a UK Supermarket during the COVID-19 Pandemic Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Minjie Cai, Jay Velu, Scott Tindal, Safak Tartanoglu Bennett
This article presents a UK supermarket worker’s experiences of work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Writing during a period of uncertainty, Jay’s narrative reveals how the sudden and constant transitions between mundanity and extremity on the shop floor evoke conflicting emotions and work intensification that disrupt and reconstruct normality. His accounts describe violent customer behaviours, absent
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Training Regimes and Diversity: Experiences of Young Foreign Employees in Japanese Headquarters Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Harald Conrad, Hendrik Meyer-Ohle
This article investigates the capacity of Japanese companies to integrate non-Japanese employees into headquarters in Japan, following recent initiatives to recruit significant numbers of foreign fresh graduates from universities in and outside of Japan. Grounding the research in the literature on diversity in workplaces and through an interview study with young foreign employees and representatives
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Gender Differences in the Social Consequences of Unemployment: How Job Loss Affects the Risk of Becoming Socially Isolated Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Jan Eckhard
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the study examines whether the impact of unemployment on the risk of becoming socially isolated is different for women and men and whether it can be traced back to financial straits. An isolating effect of unemployment is found only with regard to men, to long-term unemployment, and to social isolation in terms of scarce contact to friends
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A Feminist Political Economy Critique of ‘the Militant Minority’ Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-11-27 Adam DK King
Recent growth in strike activity in the United States and Canada has motivated a broad scholarship on union organizing and labour movement revitalization. However, researchers and activists particularly concerned with the role of member mobilization in union renewal have downplayed institutional changes to labour law and regulation which might address the decline of union density and worker power.
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The Worker Capabilities Approach: Insights from Worker Mobilizations in Italian Logistics and Food Delivery Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Lorenzo Cini, Bartek Goldmann
Following years of declining labour activism, militant forms of worker mobilization have recently emerged in the Italian platform economy and logistics sector, exhibiting novel forms of organization and action repertoires. This article investigates two cases which have been ongoing since 2011, namely mobilizations by logistics porters and food delivery couriers. Both cases seem puzzling since workers
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‘They’ve Been with Me the Whole Journey’: Temporality, Emotional Labour and Hairdressing Work Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Oonagh M Harness, Kimberly Jamie, Robert McMurray
The role of time in organisational and relational development remains an understudied component of work and employment. In response, this article draws attention to the ways that temporality informs relations between workers and clients in service work. Drawing on data from interviews and observations with hair stylists in salons located in the North East of England from 2016 to 2018, we provide a
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A Heterodox Re-Reading of Creative Work: The Diverse Economies of Danish Visual Artists Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Ana Alacovska, Trine Bille
This article investigates the diverse and heterodox array of labour practices and economic activities in artistic work. Existing studies contend that artistic income is highly skewed, with the majority of artists living in poverty, and that artistic work is intermittent, project-by-project based and precarious, with artists juggling multiple jobs. However, these prevalent perspectives typically foreground
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Migrants at Work: Perspectives, Perceptions and New Connections Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Alessio D’Angelo, Eleonore Kofman, Janroj Yilmaz Keles
Migration – and the experiences of migrants – continue to occupy an important and controversial place in the scholarly and political debates on contemporary labour markets and societies. As new scenarios emerge at local, national and global levels, new insights and perspectives become necessary. The articles in this themed issue reflect the interest Work, Employment and Society has had in the topic
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Reproducing Global Inequalities in the Online Labour Market: Valuing Capital in the Design Field Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-09-12 Pelin Demirel, Ekaterina Nemkova, Rebecca Taylor
Millions of freelancers work on digital platforms in the online labour market (OLM). The OLM’s capacity to both undermine and reproduce labour inequalities is a theme in contemporary platform econo...
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‘Working to Live, Not Living to Work’: Low-Paid Multiple Employment and Work–Life Articulation Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Andrew Smith, Jo McBride
This article critically examines how low-paid workers, who need to work in more than one legitimate job to make ends meet, attempt to reconcile work and life. The concept of work–life articulation ...
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Building Inequality: Wage Disparity between Bangladeshi and Thai Guestworkers in Singapore’s Construction Industry Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Katie Rainwater
Existing research on wage inequality in the construction industry focuses on dual labour markets in which migrants earn considerably less than native workers. This article examines occupational ine...
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‘It’s My Passion and Not Really Like Work’: Balancing Precarity with the Work–Life of a Volunteer Team Leader in the Conservation Sector Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Peter John Sandiford, Sally Green
Working with volunteers is a challenging occupation, especially in an environment of increasingly precarious casualisation. Although this trend is evident in other types of work, workers’ engagemen...
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Upskilling, Deskilling or Polarisation? Evidence on Change in Skills in Europe Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Žilvinas Martinaitis, Aleksandr Christenko, Jonas Antanavičius
What are the directions of change in the complexity of work and the required skill levels of the labour force in Europe? Three prominent strands of literature suggest conflicting expectations – ups...
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Gender Wage Gap and the Involvement of Partners in Household Work Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Eleonora Matteazzi, Stefani Scherer
Women still earn less than men and continue to perform the bulk of domestic activities. Several studies documented a negative individual wage–housework relation, suggesting that gender discrepancie...
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Why Queer Workers Make Good Organisers Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Michelle Esther O’Brien
LGBTQ retail workers act as leaders in workplace organising efforts, and union organisers identify their contributions as strengthening campaigns. What explains this propensity of queer and trans w...
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Absence from Work after the Birth of the First Child and Mothers’ Retirement Incomes: A Comparative Analysis of 10 European Countries Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Giulia M Dotti Sani, Matteo Luppi
This article investigates whether a prolonged absence from the workforce after the birth of the first child is associated with mothers having a lower retirement income and whether cross-national va...
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No Voice, No Choice: Assessing Danish Active Labour Market Policies Using Sen’s Capability Approach Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Roger Fernandez-Urbano, Michael Orton
Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) are the subject of ongoing interest, which has included the framing of ALMPs as the re-commodification of labour. It has also been argued that Sen’s Capability...
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‘I Wanted More Women in, but . . .’: Oblique Resistance to Gender Equality Initiatives Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Owain Smolović Jones, Sanela Smolović Jones, Scott Taylor, Emily Yarrow
Despite many interventions designed to change the gender demographics of positional leadership roles in organizations and professions, women continue to be under-represented in most arenas. Here we...
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The Impact of Unemployment and Non-Standard Forms of Employment on the Housing Autonomy of Young Adults Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Katerina Gousia, Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Thomas Middleton, Olena Nizalova
Young people are facing challenges in transitioning to housing autonomy because of changes in labour market conditions in recent years. This article explores the effects of youth unemployment and n...
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Precarity as a Biographical Problem? Young Workers Living with Precarity in Germany and Poland Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Adam Mrozowicki, Vera Trappmann
In the context of debates on the meanings of precarious employment, this article explores the varied ways young workers in Poland and Germany are managing precarity. Biographical narrative intervie...
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The Relative Quality of Sex Work Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-08-12 Cecilia Benoit, Michaela Smith, Mikael Jansson, Priscilla Healey, Douglas Magnuson
This article presents descriptive findings on sex workers’ structural disadvantage and their evaluation of the quality of their work, relative to their other jobs. In-person interviews were conduct...
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Precarious Education-to-Work Transitions: Entering Welfare Professions under a Workfarist Regime Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Barbara Samaluk
This article looks at the process of education-to-work transitions in female-dominated welfare professions within the Slovenian post-crisis context marked by a workfarist agenda. It departs from a ...
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Workers’ Power in Resisting Precarity: Comparing Transport Workers in Buenos Aires and Dar es Salaam Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-07-08 Matteo Rizzo, Maurizio Atzeni
The growing precariousness of employment across the world has radically altered the conditions upon which the representation of workers’ interests has traditionally been built, as it has posed chal...
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Reflexive Self-Identity and Work: Working Women, Biographical Disruption and Agency Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-07-08 Diane Trusson, Clive Trusson, Catherine Casey
The article examines how women workers reflexively shape their self-identities and work identities following a significant biographical disruption incurred by breast cancer diagnosis and treatment....
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Consuming Worker Exploitation? Accounts and Justifications for Consumer (In)action to Modern Slavery Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 3.171) Pub Date : 2020-07-08 Michal Carrington, Andreas Chatzidakis, Deirdre Shaw
While research has examined the plight of vulnerable workers, the role of consumers who drive demand for slave-based services and products has been largely neglected. This is an important gap given both historical evidence of the effectiveness of 18th and 19th century anti-slavery consumer activism and recent attempts to regulate slavery through harnessing consumer power, such as the UK’s Modern Slavery