Work, Employment & Society
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WES is a leading international journal of the BSA. We publish original research on the sociology of work. [email protected]
United Kingdom
Joined August 2016
📣Call for Abstracts: WES Conference 2025📣 We are now accepting abstracts for the Work, Employment and Society Conference held in Manchester, 8-10 September 2025. Submit your abstract by 21 March 2025. Details can be found below. 🔗👇
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@jeremy_aroles et al. outline how notions of novelty define today’s work practices and debates what the discursive construction of work as ‘new’ means. Read more below.
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“By providing a rich analysis of theoretical explanations and discussions … the authors offer unique insights into mechanisms of marketization” Stephen Bryant review’s Ian Greer and Charles Umney’s Marketization below.
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Debra Howcroft et al. examine whether the concept of the ideal worker is being disrupted or reproduced as digitalisation becomes increasingly embedded in the workplace. Read the full article #OpenAccess
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Read how craftwork is used as a technology of self-care by women academics to cope with work demands and commodified narratives in academia in the article by Jenny Rodriguez, @MarandaRidgway, @droldridge and Michaela Edwards below.
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Stefan Lawrence, Thomas Fletcher and @dan_kilvington identify factors that regulate the openness/closedness of senior leadership and executive levels of employment in football. Read their article #OpenAccess
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@DrHelenTracey finds long-term unemployed men resist the stigma of blame for their own unemployment by using humorous carnivalesque reversals. Read the #OpenAccess article below.
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‘@tbonini and @EmilianoTrere's book is a highly readable intervention: seldom polemical, it nonetheless forcefully reasserts an investment in humanity in the face of the algorithm.’ Craig Gent reviews Algorithms of Resistance below.
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‘[@pablo_perez_a] successfully integrates rich empirical data with theoretical insights, making it a critical resource for scholars and policymakers interested in labour relations...’ Daina Bellido de Luna reviews Building Power to Shape Labor Policy.
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‘Waters tackles a powerful topic with original and strong research materials, advancing an ailing sociology of suicide and integrating it with labour studies.’ Read @WillJFleming’s review of Suicide Voices below.
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Jenna Pandeli (@PandeliJ) and Richard Longman examine how prison work functions as a site where neoliberal and carceral capitalist logics are reproduced across individual, organisational and societal levels. Read their article #OpenAccess below
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Danny Buckley, @ProfVershinina and Peter Rodgers use nudge theory, originating from behavioural economics, to show how informal work becomes legitimised through nudging. Read the more #OpenAccess
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‘Sotiropoulou entrenches her work on the subject of quantity, recognising that in the contemporary context, quantification is a given.’ Konstantinos Kerasovitis (@KonKerasovitis) reviews Machines Against Measures below.
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Vincent Pasquier, Rémi Bourguignon, and Géraldine Schmidt explore how unions can influence employer decisions to downsize. Read now #OpenAccess
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Ken Kamoche and Kuok Kei Law investigate how Hong Kong scaffolders navigate and make sense of everyday dangerous work which is stigmatized in a highly aspirational society. Read now below.
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‘Playing with Space to Deal with the Contradictions of Customer Sovereignty’ offers a fine-grained empirical account of the spatial tactics used by workers in their daily work. Read the full article below.
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RT @SageJournals: Congratulations to Simon Walo for receiving BSA’s 2024 Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence! His article can be found on…
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Kathryn A Boyle explores the role of subjective agency and politicised union leadership in exercising societal (discursive) power. Read the full article #OpenAccess
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‘Demanding a Voice?’ illuminates how social relations in work organisations had been debated by workers and managers in the Rowntree lecture conferences as a part of the British interwar management movement. Read the article #OpenAccess
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