{"title":"Scarring the Life Course: Early Career Precarity and Long-Term Fertility Outcomes in Japan","authors":"Fumiya Uchikoshi,Manting Chen","doi":"10.1177/09500170261462746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261462746","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149226201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Affective order of time discipline: The emotional foundation of time pressure in the online gig economy","authors":"See Pok Loa","doi":"10.1177/09500170261484733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261484733","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"471 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lakshmi Narasimha Raju Vuddaraju,Sarah Hudson,Yi Liu
{"title":"Algorithmic management and the spatiotemporality of workarounds","authors":"Lakshmi Narasimha Raju Vuddaraju,Sarah Hudson,Yi Liu","doi":"10.1177/09500170261484731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261484731","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"295 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149152750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Deepanshu Mohan, Sakshi Chindaliya and Ashika Thomas (eds), Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India: Perspective from a Feminist Ethnographic Approach MohanDeepanshuChindaliyaSakshiThomasAshika (eds), Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India: Perspective from a Feminist Ethnographic Approach. New York: Routledge, 2025, £116.79 hbk, (ISBN: 9781032798233), 154 pp.","authors":"Alayka Aftab","doi":"10.1177/09500170261491242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261491242","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"198 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149130304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Establishing digital presence: How occupational status, job insecurity and job dissatisfaction shape digital availability, visibility and faking behaviours among home-based workers","authors":"Anja-Kristin Abendroth, Yvonne Lott, Sandra Dummert","doi":"10.1177/09500170261476006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261476006","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines digital presence behaviour among home-based workers encompassing three facets: digital availability, digital visibility of work achievements and digital faking of omnipresence. Digital availability is conceptualised as a reactive response to exaggerated ideal worker norm expectations in the digital workspace. In contrast, digital visibility and faking are understood as proactive impression-management behaviours aimed at maintaining or improving the image of an ideal worker while working from home. Seemingly unrelated regression analyses based on a representative sample of home-based workers in Germany show a relatively high prevalence of digital availability and visibility behaviour. Moreover, high-status employees were more likely to be digitally available, job insecurity increased engagement in all three facets, while job dissatisfaction encouraged digital faking and discouraged digital visibility behaviours. We conclude that digital presence behaviour reflects an exaggeration of the ideal worker norm and unequal job situations among home-based workers.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew A. Andersson, Laura Upenieks, Steven Hitlin
{"title":"Life’s dignity within and beyond the workplace: Results from a national sample of US workers","authors":"Matthew A. Andersson, Laura Upenieks, Steven Hitlin","doi":"10.1177/09500170261468238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261468238","url":null,"abstract":"While social relationships are essential to dignity, empirical research has yet to explore how the core qualities of these relations associate with a dignified life. Given widespread alienation among contemporary workers, we suspect that a life’s dignity may derive equally, if not more, from relations beyond the workplace. Drawing on 2021 Gallup survey data from the United States ( <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">N</jats:italic> = 551), this study captures an increased range of processes spanning work and non-work relations (respect, recognition, authenticity, closeness and/or support). Findings show that work and non-work relations are both strongly linked to perceptions of living a dignified life, though recognition and authenticity are somewhat harder to come by than respect, closeness or emotional support. Non-work relations matter significantly more for dignity in women’s lives, while work relations matter more for men’s dignity. However, a lack of differences by college degree status underscores how agency and boundary work are vital to constructing a life’s dignity.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Knut Laaser and Jan Ch. Karlsson,\u0000 The Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged Work\u0000 LaaserKnutKarlssonJan ChThe Politics of Working Life and Meaningful Waged WorkCambridge University Press: London and Cambridge, 2025, £29.99 pbk, (ISBN: 978 1 009 096355), 300pp.","authors":"Stephen Ackroyd","doi":"10.1177/09500170261471054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261471054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}