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Work, Employment & Society
Journal Prestige (SJR): 1.615  Citation Impact (citeScore): 2 Number of Followers: 54  Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)ISSN (Print) 0950-0170 - ISSN (Online) 1469-8722 Published by Sage Publications  [1176 journals]
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- Book Review: Heejung Chung, The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working
Leads to (Self-)Exploitation-
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Authors: Elsie Foeken
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-06-02T11:27:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231166266
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- Employment Discrimination against Indigenous People with Tribal Marks in
Nigeria: The Painful Face of Stigma-
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Authors: Andrew R Timming, Chima Mordi, Toyin Ajibade Adisa
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Drawing from in-depth qualitative interviews (N = 32), this article examines the impact of indigenous tribal marks on employment chances in southwest Nigeria. It employs indigenous standpoint theory to frame the argument around what constitutes stigma and in what context. The results of our thematic analysis indicate that tribally marked job applicants and employees face significant social rejection, stigmatization and discrimination, and can suffer from severe mental illnesses and even suicidal ideation. We explain how these tribally marked individuals navigate the changing contours of tradition and modernity in Nigeria. Tribal marks, although once largely perceived as signals of beauty and high social status, are now increasingly viewed as a significant liability in the labour market. This article makes a unique and original contribution to the study of stigma and employment discrimination by eschewing the prevailing Western ethnocentrism in the extant research and instead placing the indigenous standpoint at centre stage.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-06-02T07:11:38Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231173591
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- Does College Prestige Matter' Asian CEOs and High-Skilled Immigrant
Hiring in the US-
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Authors: Eunbi Kim
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
In the hiring discrimination literature, employers are depicted primarily as majority members who strive to bolster their privileged group status by limiting immigrants’ employment opportunities. While minority employers are expected to be less discriminatory towards immigrant hiring than their majority counterparts, our argument contradicts this expectation. Building on the segmented assimilation and social identity literature, we analyse the disparities in organisational support for high-skilled immigrant hiring among Standard and Poor’s (S&P) 1500 firms (2009–2018) with a focus on organisations led by Asian CEOs. We find that firms with Asian CEOs tend to have a lower intent to hire high-skilled foreign workers compared to those with CEOs of other races, but such a negative effect improves significantly when the Asian CEOs received a prestigious college education. This article extends theoretical discussion on hiring discrimination by emphasising the importance of CEO minority status and education.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-05-30T02:01:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231169680
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- Caring in the Gig Economy: A Relational Perspective of Decent Work
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Authors: Maria Hameed Khan, Jannine Williams, Penny Williams, Robyn Mayes
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
The rapidly expanding gig economy has been criticized for creating precarious and indecent working conditions. These critiques draw on decent work debates centred on employment classification, regulation and platform fairness, with less focus on the interactions between workers, platforms and clients, which are central to the experience of platform-mediated work. This article adopts a worker-centric relational perspective to explore decent work in the gig economy. Drawing on the experiences of workers in platform-mediated domestic care work, the insights from this study highlight the importance of social interactions and relationships, using an ethics of care lens, to elucidate how relational aspects shape workers’ experiences. The findings reveal platform workers centre mutuality of interests, responsiveness and reciprocity, attentiveness and solidarity to maintain a balance of care (care-for-self and care-for-others) when negotiating platform-mediated care work. This article contributes relationality as a key dimension of decent work currently overlooked in studies exploring gig work arrangements.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-05-25T10:20:20Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231173586
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- Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of
Success-
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Authors: David J Bailey
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
The decline of the power of organised labour, which is a central feature of neoliberalism, was compounded during the ‘age of austerity’. Yet, the potentially disruptive agency of workers remains. This article presents a qualitative process-tracing exercise for over 150 prominent episodes of worker-led dissent in the period 2010–2019 in the UK, the results of which are also made available in a website accompanying the article: ‘Contesting the UK’s neoliberal model of capitalism: worker-led dissent (2010–2019). The article identifies seven configurations of causal conditions that proved sufficient for workers to successfully pursue their stated aims during this period. While ‘standard’ national disputes led by mainstream trade unions were on the whole not sufficient to achieve success during this period, nevertheless a number of alternative combinations of conditions did prove to be sufficient, especially locally-focused campaigns, those undertaken by grassroots ‘indie’ unions and those in the transport sector.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-05-18T05:51:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231169675
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- Book Review Symposium
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Authors: Elena Shulzhenko
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-04-24T06:04:45Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231167088
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- Book Review Symposium
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Authors: Alex J Wood
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-04-24T05:59:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231167083
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- Book Review Essay
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Authors: Chris Warhurst
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-04-24T05:58:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231166259
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- Book Review: Virginia Doellgast, Exit, Voice, and Solidarity: Contesting
Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries-
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Authors: Stephen J Frenkel
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-04-18T09:08:05Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231166262
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- ‘Basically He’s a Pet, Not a Working Dog’: Theorising What Therapy
Dogs Do in the Workplace-
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Authors: Nickie Charles, Carol Wolkowitz
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
This article takes the case of therapy dogs who visit hospitals, care homes, schools and universities in Britain and asks whether we should conceptualise what they are doing as work. Marx defined the capacity to work as what sets humankind apart from other animals, but more recent analysts see similarities between animals and humans in their capacity to work. Animal work is often defined through training and the acquisition of skills; for therapy dogs, however, training is not required, and their skills go unrecognised. Drawing on a study of therapy dog visits to a British university and using a methodology that attends to the experiences of the dogs as well as the human actors, we argue that therapy dogs engage in emotional work and body work and that the concepts of ‘encounter value’ and ‘feeling power’ need to be deployed to theorise the work they are doing.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-04-18T09:00:59Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231161495
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- Avoiding, Resisting and Enduring: A New Typology of Worker Responses to
Workplace Violence-
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Authors: Ellen T Meiser, Eli R Wilson
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Drawing on research on chefs and aspiring chefs in commercial kitchens, this article typologises workers’ strategic responses to violence and illustrates how these responses are shaped by occupational status and work experience, as well as industry structures. While previous scholarship indicates that workers actively avoid or resist violence in the workplace, this literature largely neglects ways in which workers endure violence in strategic ways. Based on ethnographic data and in-depth interviews, this article explores three key responses to violence – avoidance, resistance and endurance – and argues that while these reactions may complement workers’ occupational self-interest, they ultimately serve to reinforce, normalise and even exacerbate violence within commercial kitchens and other similar workplaces.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-04-17T10:36:13Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231159845
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- Sexual Orientation, Workplace Authority and Occupational Segregation:
Evidence from Germany-
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Authors: Lisa de Vries, Stephanie Steinmetz
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
An extensive body of research has documented the relationship between sexual orientation and income, but only a few studies have examined the effects of sexual orientation on workplace authority. This article investigates the probability of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people having (high-level) workplace authority and the effects of occupational gender segregation. It analyses four waves of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (N=37,288 heterosexual and N=739 LGB observations). The results show that gay and bisexual men do not differ from heterosexual men in their probability of having workplace authority, but they have a lower probability of attaining high-level authority. Lesbian and bisexual women have a higher probability than heterosexual women of having workplace authority, but no advantages in attaining high-level authority. These insights into occupational segregation suggest that gay and bisexual men experience similar levels of disadvantages across occupations, whereas lesbian and bisexual women have an advantage in female-dominated occupations.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-03-31T12:48:07Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231158513
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- Unpromising Futures: Early-Career GPs’ Narrative Accounts of Meaningful
Work during a Professional Workforce Crisis-
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Authors: Louise Laverty, Katherine Checkland, Sharon Spooner
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Over the past few decades, the intensification and reorganisation of work have led to growing precarity, insecurity and uncertainty for employees, affecting even professionals tied to traditionally model employers. Doctors, in particular, have seen substantial changes to their work: having to work harder, longer and more intensely with reductions in expected autonomy, deference and respect. This article focuses on how early-career GPs make sense of and navigate meaningful work in the context of a current workforce crisis. Drawing on 15 narrative interviews and 10 focus groups with early-career GPs, the findings show that meaningful work during a crisis is understood temporally, with imagined futures perceived as increasingly impossible due to changes to the structure and orientation of medical work, leading to different career plans. Utilising Adam and Groves’ approach to futures as a conceptual lens, the article focuses on how multiple, often clashing, future orientations impact meaningful work.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-03-27T12:59:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231157543
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- The Equality Hurdle: Resolving the Welfare State Paradox
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Authors: Erling Barth, Liza Reisel, Kjersti Misje Østbakken
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
This article revisits a central tenet of the welfare state paradox, also known as the inclusion-equality trade-off. Using large-scale survey data for 31 European countries and the United States, collected over a recent 15-year period, the article re-investigates the relationship between female labour force participation and gender segregation. Emphasising the transitional role played by the monetisation of domestic tasks, the study identifies a ‘gender equality hurdle’ that countries with the highest levels of female labour force participation have already passed. The results show that occupational gender segregation is currently lower in countries with high female labour force participation, regardless of public sector size. However, the findings also indicate that high relative levels of public spending on health, education and care are particularly conducive to desegregation. Hence, rather than being paradoxical, more equality in participation begets more equality in the labour market, as well as in gendered tasks in society overall.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-03-18T12:54:49Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155293
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- Trans People in the Workplace: Possibilities for Subverting
Heteronormativity-
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Authors: David Watson, Angelo Benozzo, Roberta Fida
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
This article explores possible subversions of heteronormativity through transgender performativity in the workplace. Drawing on insights from Judith Butler we focus on how employees construct (un)intelligible subject positions that can create ‘moments’ of subversion, which go against the disciplinary, powerful and normative gender binary. We explore this possibility through an analysis of qualitative material generated through encounters with 11 Italian trans workers. Our analysis shows that subversion manifests in diverse ways according to how individual performativities combine with organisational context. Within this diversity we highlight three moments of subversion: subversion through intrigue; subversion through incongruence; and subversion through betrayal. We argue that where transgender identity contrasts strongly with gender norms, subversion is most intense. The subversion of strongly heteronormative working contexts is difficult as moments of subversion are unpredictable, varied and can come at personal cost, but are necessary in order to accommodate different gender identities.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-03-16T12:01:01Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155059
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- Book Review: William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams
(eds), Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies-
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Authors: Konstantinos Kerasovitis
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-03-10T07:31:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155796
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- Technological Change, Tasks and Class Inequality in Europe
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Authors: Carlos J Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal, Sergio Torrejón Perez
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Neo-Weberian occupational class schemas, rooted in industrial-age employment relations, are a standard socio-economic position measure in social stratification. Previous research highlighted Erikson-Goldthorpe-Portocarero (EGP)-based schemas’ difficulties in keeping up with changing labour markets, but few tested alternative explanations. This article explores how job tasks linked to technological change and rising economic inequality might confound the links between employment relations, classes, and life chances. Using the European Working Conditions Survey covering the European Union (EU)-27 countries, this article analyses over time and by gender: 1) the task distribution between social classes; and 2) whether tasks predict class membership and life chances. Decomposition analyses suggest that tasks explain class membership and wage inequality better than theorised employment relations. However, intellectual/routine tasks and digital tools driving income inequality are well-stratified by occupational classes. Therefore, this article does not argue for a class (schema) revolution but for fine-tuning the old instrument to portray market inequalities in the digital age.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-03-07T09:42:41Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155783
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- Book Review: Lars Meier Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities
in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class-
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Authors: Bishnuprasad Mohapatra
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-03-07T09:40:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155780
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- Making Markets Material: Enactments, Resistances, and Erasures of
Materiality in the Graduate Labour Market-
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Authors: Olga Loza, Philip Roscoe
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Scholarship on the graduate labour market, preoccupied by structure, agency, and power, has largely focused on the market’s discursive composition. It has not yet paid significant attention to the concrete, material apparatus of the market and how this shapes market outcomes. In contrast, we approach the construction of the graduate labour market from a new materialist perspective and with reference to the growing literature of ‘market studies’. We consider the empirical case of a graduate recruitment hackathon to show how the hackathon’s material features were implicated in enacting a specific occurrence of the graduate labour market. The agendas of the hackathon’s designers and their visions of the graduate labour market were enacted in the hackathon’s material arrangements, but this enactment was not always reliable: in some instances materiality resisted and erased corporate agendas. Our article contributes to the sociology of work by highlighting the dynamic relationship between materiality and power (re)production in the graduate labour market.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-03-07T09:22:01Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155280
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- Choreographies of Care: A Dance of Human and Material Agency in
Rehabilitation Work with Robots-
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Authors: Angelo Gasparre, Lia Tirabeni
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
This article seeks to advance the understanding of how human and material agency enmesh in human-robotic workplaces. By means of a qualitative study, the practical use of robots is investigated within two organisations for medical rehabilitation. The theoretical framework combines Andrew Pickering’s ‘dance of agency’ with a process-oriented view of technology as technical rationality. It shows how resistances and accommodations are enacted by both humans and nonhumans as analytical loci of the dance of agency, and it explains how the experimental activities that are concerned with technology adoption and use are emergently fixed in formal or informal rules of coordination of action – the ‘choreographies of care’. By extending the processual orientation of Pickering’s ‘dance of agency’, and by further elaborating on the organisational implications of technological change within it, the article increases understanding of how the transformation of material agency may enact processes of change in the organisational culture.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-03-06T05:47:00Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221144396
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- Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Work, Employment and Society:
Extending the Debate on Organisational Involvement in/Responsibilities
around Fertility and Reproduction-
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Authors: Krystal Wilkinson, Clare Mumford, Michael Carroll
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
A relatively recent development in the field of work and employment is organisational provisions around employee fertility – notably policies and benefits related to assisted reproductive technologies, also known as fertility treatment. Work, employment and organisation scholars have only scratched the surface of this issue. This Debates and Controversies article takes an intersectional political economy approach to explore the opportunities, challenges and dilemmas at the interface between assisted reproductive technologies, society, employment and work. We consider how ‘stratified reproduction’ may be affected by employer interest in assisted reproductive technologies; what employers may gain, risk or lose by developing provisions; how assisted reproductive technologies-related ‘reproductive work’ intersects with paid employment; and the possible consequences, including occupational stratification due to assisted reproductive technologies-related career penalty. We call for further research, especially focusing on the most disadvantaged in society and employment, and approaches to workplace support led by compassion over cost-benefit calculation.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-27T10:50:39Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155752
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- Matching Candidates to Culture: How Assessments of Organisational Fit
Shape the Hiring Process-
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Authors: Gerbrand Tholen
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Organisational fit represents a crucial criterion in the hiring process. This article aims to understand how employers and external recruitment consultants define and apply organisational fit in professional labour markets, such as engineering, marketing and finance. It also investigates how the use of organisational fit in hiring can lead to social bias within these labour markets. It relies on semi-structured interviews with 47 external recruitment consultants who assist employers in these sectors. The article draws on Relational Inequality Theory to demonstrate how hiring managers and consultants use organisational fit to create and justify boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable candidates. Claim-making supports the rationalisation and legitimisation in the exclusion of groups of candidates. The article critically informs human resource management, business and psychology literature that perceive organisational fit as a largely benign criterion for recruitment. It also extends sociological and critical management literature by delineating three main exclusionary mechanisms in matching candidates for organisational fit.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-27T10:50:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155294
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- Labour Market Engineers: Reconceptualising Labour Market Intermediaries
with the Rise of the Gig Economy in the United States-
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Authors: Ashley Baber
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Gig work – accessing job opportunities through an app – has brought renewed attention to precarious non-standard labour arrangements. Scholars have begun to consider the intermediary role that platforms such as Uber, Lyft and Doordash play in exploiting and controlling workers. Yet, literature on labour market intermediaries has muddied conceptions of their role, impact and outcomes for workers by lumping a variety of institutions under the same umbrella term. Drawing from previous theoretical and empirical works throughout the temporary help and gig industries, this article proposes a reconceptualisation of labour market intermediaries as labour market engineers highlighting four mutually reinforcing features. This sociological reconceptualisation updates the understanding of for-profit labour market intermediaries by demonstrating the market making behaviours of firms of on-demand labour in the US context. Likewise, this reconceptualisation notes how gig firms have adapted and expanded these features in ways that increase precarity for workers.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-23T05:23:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221150087
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- Book Review: Raven Bowen Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex as a Side
Hustle-
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Authors: Fabio Cescon
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-17T05:37:13Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170231155791
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- Sustaining Solidarity through Social Media' Employee Social-Media Groups
as an Emerging Platform for Collectivism in Pakistan-
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Authors: Syed Imran Saqib, Matthew M C Allen, Miguel Martínez Lucio, Maria Allen
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Forging solidarity among seemingly privileged white-collar professionals has been seen as a challenging process. However, many banking employees in Pakistan feel marginalized and lack formal collective mechanisms to voice their concerns, leading some to participate in social-media groups. Drawing on various discussions linked to labour process perspectives, we examine how these banking employees use social media as a means to create broader and diverse collective bonds within their profession and build bridges to their counterparts in other organizations within the sector. By doing so, we reveal that employees post on social media to express and affirm their concerns, offer broader support with one another, ‘cope’ with existing circumstances, highlight their unrewarded professionalism, and share relevant information around collective issues and experiences and not solely to critique their work environment. The article draws on and contributes to new debates on collectivism and solidarity, revealing the opportunities for actions on social media.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-17T05:36:14Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221148301
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- Book Review: Johan Alvehus The Logic of Professionalism: Work and
Management in Professional Service Organizations-
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Authors: Stephen J Frenkel
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-07T12:50:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221150097
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- Book Review: Nicole Brown (ed.) Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia:
Strategies for Inclusion in Higher Education-
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Authors: Emily Yarrow
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-06T12:17:49Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221146908
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- The Role of Community Organisations in the Collective Mobilisation of
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Authors: Joyce Jiang, Marek Korczynski
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
In examining the collective mobilisation of migrant workers, scholars have explored the emergence of community organisations as alternative forms of worker representation. However, community unionism scholars tend to adopt a union-centric perspective, which leaves unexplored the complex nature of community organisations. We argue that it is important to adopt a ‘community’-oriented perspective. Such a perspective allows us to explore varied capacity for collective actions and different forms of identity framing across community organisations. We argue that these can affect the union–community relationship and organising outcomes. By comparing ethnographic case studies of the role of two community organisations vis-a-vis the collective mobilisation of migrant workers, we conclude that community organisations which focus on participatory internal relations, and which frame collective identities (including class) in an intersectional way, are more likely to have reciprocal relationships with trade unions and contribute to collective mobilisation.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-03T05:48:31Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221138008
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- Framing Unions and Nurses
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Authors: Susan Cake
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Union communication and framing are important for how union members, as well as how unions as organizations, are represented. In the context of declining union density and therefore fewer direct union members, unions’ daily communication material on social media may be one of the most common interactions people have with unions. This case study focuses on United Nurses of Alberta, the union for most registered nurses in Alberta, Canada, where unionization rates are among the lowest in Canada. This case study shows how United Nurses of Alberta uses two collective action frames, nurses-as-distinct and nurses-as-advocates, in their daily communication to members and the public. In creating and promoting these frames, United Nurses of Alberta draws from and pushes against the industrial relations framework under which they operate and the historical narrative of nurses as caring and self-sacrificing, which may reinforce common understandings of nursing and also limit United Nurses of Alberta’s ability to represent their members.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-03T05:46:31Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221144525
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- Book Review: Kenneth Abrahamsson and Richard Ennals (eds) Sustainable Work
in Europe: Concepts, Conditions, Challenges-
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Authors: Joern Janssen
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-03T05:44:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221144406
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- Goldin’s Last Chapter on the Gender Pay Gap: An Exploratory Analysis
Using Italian Data-
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Authors: Sergio Destefanis, Fernanda Mazzotta, Lavinia Parisi
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the application to Italy of Goldin’s hypothesis that the unexplained gender pay gap is crucially linked to firms’ incentive to disproportionately reward individuals who work long and particular hours. The study draws mainly on Italian responses to the 2014 European Structure of Earnings Survey for data on earnings and the individual characteristics of employees and their employer, but also uses data from the Occupational Information Network and the Italian Sample Survey on Professions to measure characteristics reflecting the work context within occupations. For graduate and non-graduate workers, the results reveal a positive relationship between various measures of the unexplained gender pay gap and the elasticity of earnings with respect to work hours. For graduate workers, in accordance with Goldin’s hypothesis, both these variables are correlated with the occupational characteristics that impose earnings penalties on workers seeking more workplace flexibility.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-03T05:29:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221143724
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- Are All the Stable Jobs Gone' The Transformation of the Worker–Firm
Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada,
1976–2015-
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Authors: Xavier St-Denis, Matissa Hollister
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
The literature on flexibilization documents the decline of the standard employment relationships, resulting in greater job insecurity. Consequently, the stability of career trajectories is expected to have decreased. However, existing studies in many countries pose a significant challenge: the available evidence shows no clear downward trend and possibly even an increase in job stability since the 1970s, as measured by trends in job tenure duration or job separations. This article highlights important limitations of such studies and provides novel evidence on the transformation of career trajectories. It is the first to provide evidence of a decrease in average job tenure duration for men in Canada and a decrease in five-year and 10-year retention rates over the four decades between 1976 and 2015, adjusting for sociodemographic shifts unrelated to flexibilization. We also find that average job tenure has increased for women, while their long-term job retention rates declined.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-02T05:51:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221146916
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- Beyond the Dormitory Labour Regime: Comparing Chinese and Indian
Workplace–Residence Systems as Strategies of Migrant Labour Control-
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Authors: Charlotte Goodburn, Soumya Mishra
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
This article explores two examples of worker housing in India, and compares these with China’s ‘dormitory labour regime’, arguing that these methods of labour accommodation are part of a broader, increasingly global, workplace-residence regime aimed at migrant labour control for the purposes of value extraction. Previous studies to Pun and Smith, it argues that China’s system is not unique, but part of the political economy of contemporary global capitalism. Although there exist historical and contextual variations between the two Indian case studies, drawn from the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) garment sector and the Andhra Pradesh electronics industry, as well as between the Indian and Chinese contexts, the aims and many of the outcomes are similar. Moving beyond a focus on the country- and space-specific ‘dormitory labour regime’ facilitates a broader understanding of the crucial role contemporary workplace-residence systems play in enhancing control of migrant labour for the benefit of global accumulation networks.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-02T05:49:41Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221142717
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- Book Review: Chris Baldry and Jeff Hyman Sustainable Work and the
Environmental Crisis: The Link between Labour and Climate Change-
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Authors: Rahul Singh
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-01T05:40:51Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221146925
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- Book Review: Wilfredo Alvarez Everyday Dirty Work: Invisibility,
Communication, and Immigrant Labor-
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Authors: Frances Myers
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-02-01T05:33:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221146919
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- The Dualisation of Teacher Labour Markets, Employment Trajectories and the
State in France-
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Authors: Caroline Bertron, Anne-Elise Vélu, Hélène Buisson-Fenet, Xavier Dumay
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
In a context of growing dualisation of the workforce that in France takes the form of a ‘contractual dualism’, this article analyses the mechanisms supporting the resort to contract observed in the public teaching sector otherwise modelled on (statutory, long-term) civil service. It departs from analyses mainly focused on the institutional variations of dualism and their outputs, and contributes to the literature on labour market segmentations by adopting an analysis of workers’ experiences and professional trajectories. Findings reveal that contract teachers receive little support from the state to secure their careers and develop professionally, but nonetheless commit to their careers despite the differential in employment and work conditions, which they seemingly consider as acceptable comparatively with their previous work and employment conditions, and given their social origins and aspirations. Analyses thus bring forth new evidence of intersections between institutionalised forms of dualism, social reproduction and the employment trajectories of individuals.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-01-27T12:46:53Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221128681
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- Temporary Migrants as Dehumanised ‘Other’ in the Time of COVID-19:
We’re All in This Together'-
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Authors: Dimitria Groutsis, Annika Kaabel, Chris F Wright
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Temporary migrants comprise a substantial component of the Australian workforce. Evidence of the tensions and contradictions in Australia’s reliance on temporary migrant workers was spotlighted during the COVID-19 global health crisis, particularly with regards to the actions and responsibilities of key players in the attraction, recruitment, deployment and ultimately abandonment of these workers. In this article, we interrogate the public framing of temporary migrant workers within the context of the pandemic. We employ a discourse analysis and build upon theories of precarity and dehumanisation. In doing so we demonstrate how the precarious state within which temporary migrant workers found themselves saw them cast as a dehumanised and unwelcome ‘other’, a burden to the labour market, the state and the broader society.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-01-20T05:31:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221142723
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- Precarity and Subcontracting Relationships: The Case of Parcel Delivery
Drivers in France-
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Authors: Pétronille Rème-Harnay
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
This article seeks to show, taking the example of delivery drivers, how inter-firm relations affect worker precarity. It is based on an in-depth field study carried out in the Paris region and backed up by the statistical analysis of national surveys. It focuses in particular on the role played by firms’ dependence in the precarity of work and employment, considering that both dependence and precarity should be considered ubiquitous. It then seeks to measure this dependence and highlight the factors that may increase it as the relative size of the firms, the chain of dependence and the position of firms in this chain. In this way, it sets out to show why the contractual status of employees can no longer provide job security in the context of unbalanced subcontracting relationships.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-01-20T05:24:27Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221142721
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- The Impact of Remote Work on Managerial Compliance: Changes in the Control
Regime over Line Managers-
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Authors: Francisca Gutiérrez-Crocco, Angel Martin-Caballero, Andrés Godoy
Abstract: Work, Employment and Society, Ahead of Print.
Labour process approaches have extensively documented the impact of digitalisation and remote work on managerial control, though the role of managers has been less explored. This article fills that gap in the extant literature by examining how adopting remote work affects managerial compliance with corporate goals. Particularly, it shows that this development entails a process of de-institutionalisation and re-institutionalisation of the control regime operating over lower-level managers to act on behalf of companies. These processes are driven by corporate decisions but also by the managers’ attempts to negotiate this regime. Overall, the article claims the need to study managers as agents rather than as a mere extension of the management function or passive subjects of corporate restructurings. The arguments are based on a study conducted in a multinational mining company operating in Chile, which adopted a research-in-action approach and included interviews, document reviews and a survey of line managers.
Citation: Work, Employment and Society
PubDate: 2023-01-20T05:21:47Z
DOI: 10.1177/09500170221142713
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