{"title":"A Life Remembered: Karl Weick, 1936–2026","authors":"Syed Eraj Hassan, Ajnesh Prasad","doi":"10.1177/09500170261473136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261473136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123969","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":"Labelled unemployed: Neighbourhood composition and the enforcement of employment norms","authors":"Kerstin Ostermann, Sebastian Lang","doi":"10.1177/09500170261472822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261472822","url":null,"abstract":"This article illuminates the contexts in which neighbourhood unemployment serves as a mechanism to explain the unemployed’s perception of being negatively stereotyped, also known as stigma consciousness. The article relies on the labelling approach and social contagion models to derive hypotheses about the effect of informal societal control and the scope of the employment norm. After combining survey data with administrative 1×1km grid cell data from Germany, multilevel models reveal a U-shaped association: the neighbourhood’s unemployment negatively affects the individuals’ stigma consciousness up to an unemployment share of 10% and positively affects the individual’s stigma consciousness when the neighbourhood share exceeds 30%. Especially the unemployed in high-inequality neighbourhoods and low-unemployment counties show the highest associations between neighbourhood unemployment and stigma consciousness. Beyond highlighting the importance of local norms and how they shape individuals’ perceptions in general, the article sheds light on how employment norms operate on different spatial levels.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148979548","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}
Richard N.S. Robinson, Peter Lugosi, Cameron Parsell
{"title":"Employment as a Foreign Realm: Spatial Alienation and Conceptions of Work among People with Experience of Homelessness","authors":"Richard N.S. Robinson, Peter Lugosi, Cameron Parsell","doi":"10.1177/09500170261454074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261454074","url":null,"abstract":"Work and employment are frequently presented as potential solutions for socially excluded people to overcome their disadvantage(s) and to (re)integrate into society. To assess the viability of pursuing employment pathways, it is important to understand previous engagement with, perceptions of, and attitudes towards work and employment among those who have encountered multiple forms of social exclusion. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 63 people who had experienced homelessness in Australia, this article examines what work means to people excluded from housing and work realms. The article proposes <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">spatial alienation</jats:italic> to conceptualise affective (constructive-antagonistic) and temporal (past-future) orientations to work, arguing that work can represent <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">ordered</jats:italic> , <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">tainted</jats:italic> , <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">aspirational</jats:italic> , and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">hostile</jats:italic> space. The findings identify various factors that shape these orientations, demonstrate their consequences, and illustrate the agency that socially disadvantaged individuals exercise through and in relation to their engagement with work and employment.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"193 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148979510","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":"Open to all? Examining class inequality in UK museum work through Bourdieu’s field-logics and the construction of ‘ideal’ career norms","authors":"Samantha Evans, Rebecca Whiting","doi":"10.1177/09500170261471091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261471091","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a new theoretical framing – combining Bourdieu’s field-logics with ideal career norms – to investigate how occupational structures and cultures contribute to class inequality. Using a critical discourse analysis of interview, focus group and secondary data, it shows how logics and career norms are constructed in UK museum work; a field in flux. Three logics; (a) foundational, (b) market, (c) public service, interact to shape career norms within UK museums. While the former two multiply class inequalities, the public service logic can potentially mitigate them. The logic-career norm framing shifts attention from class inequality as an individualised, universalised phenomenon, to one shaped by the distinct culture and structures of a field, its relations within and without; showing here the effects of government policy and ideology. The article extends the political potential of Bourdieu’s framework, explaining not just how class inequality persists, but also why.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148909132","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":"You don’t look sick: Invisible disability, moral injury, and organisational betrayal on the retail front-line","authors":"Milena Tekeste,Amal Abdellatif,Anastasios Hadjisolomou,Jordan","doi":"10.1177/09500170261476001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261476001","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how the gap between invisible impairment and formal recognition shapes employment experiences. We draw on Jordan’s account as a front-line retail worker in Germany living with a chronic kidney condition that significantly affects work capacity but falls below the threshold for disability classification under the German Sozialgesetzbuch IX (SGB IX). Jordan’s testimony reveals a workplace where support depends on individual managers rather than institutional structures, and where the absence of formal classification renders suffering invisible to the systems designed to address it. We argue that the harm described is best understood as moral injury. Drawing on literature on invisible disability and on moral injury, we demonstrate how classification thresholds, combined with unsupportive employer care, produce institutional betrayal that erodes both worker well-being and organisational attachment.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148933971","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":"‘You have to make them like the girl, like me . . . cause . . . I’m the girl’: Intermediated intimate labour in the Romanian adult webcamming industry","authors":"Hanne Stegeman","doi":"10.1177/09500170261473527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261473527","url":null,"abstract":"Adult webcam performers cultivate financially rewarding digital interactions with clients. Like other creators they monetise ‘authentic’ relationships with their audience. This article examines the ways in which this livestreamed intimate labour is shared between admins and models in Romanian webcamming studios to maximise profits. It draws on 25 interviews with Romanian webcam performers, the ‘admins’ that assist them, and studio managers. Analysis of these interviews shows how webcam studios intermediate in intimate labour to maximise labour control. This sharing of intimate service work weaponises gendered narratives of skill and the invisibility of admins to control how performers present themselves and interact with clients. This analysis of intermediation in intimate service labour highlights the role of synchronic management control in purported individual service labour processes. It contributes to analyses of platform labour by showcasing how intermediation reinforces traditional control over workers and conceptualises the digital optimisation of intimate service interactions.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899455","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":"Visibilising the gritty realities of truck driving work in the UK","authors":"Kaveri Medappa, Josephine Noon","doi":"10.1177/09500170261462753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261462753","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces Josephine (Jo) Noon, a woman truck driver in her early 40s. Speaking as a woman in a male-dominated occupation, a recent entrant into the UK’s truck driving workforce and with experience driving in the UK and Europe, Jo’s account disrupts common misconceptions about truck driving and truck drivers. The article contributes to sociological debates at the intersections of mobility and labour by drawing attention to how spatial mobility itself constitutes work for mobile logistics workers and becomes a site of surplus extraction for capital. We highlight the less explored material, embodied realities of occupational auto-mobilities, and the physical infrastructures necessary for the daily social reproduction of mobile workers, foregrounding their affective, generative effects for worker wellbeing and retention. The article ends with a provocation: that truck driver shortages be read as a ‘refusal’ by drivers to continue labouring under exploitative logistics capital and uncaring state actors.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"349 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148877292","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":"Transnational Care Labour Markets and the Making of (Un)Ethical Recruitment","authors":"Isabel Shutes","doi":"10.1177/09500170261467642","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261467642","url":null,"abstract":"Ethical recruitment is a core principle of policy governing international labour recruitment, yet how it is constituted and violated in practice remains underexplored. This article examines the making of (un)ethical recruitment in transnational care labour markets, focusing on the international recruitment of care workers to the UK. Drawing on interviews with recruiters of care workers, it explores how recruiters understand and navigate ethical and unethical recruitment. Theoretically, the article frames (un)ethical recruitment through the lens of market-making and the externalisation of care. Empirically, it considers how the costs of care labour are externalised onto workers. Externalisation processes involve fee-charging to internationally recruited care workers, limited enforcement of ethical recruitment standards and the design of state immigration policy itself. While some recruiters position themselves as ethical actors, upholding the rights of migrant workers, it is argued that ethical recruitment ultimately requires employers and states to bear the costs of care labour.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"141 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148858814","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":"‘Living Props’: Background Actors and the Production of ‘Occupational Irrelevance’ within Film and Television Work","authors":"Saara Liinamaa, Michael Follert","doi":"10.1177/09500170261462747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261462747","url":null,"abstract":"This article treats background acting as an archetypal case for theorising sociologically the work and workers that exist in the backdrop of a workplace. Turning to the sociology of attention and its conceptualisation of the background of everyday life, it draws on Zerubavel’s ‘social structure of irrelevance’ to understand background acting as an occupation. Based on in-depth interviews with unionised and non-unionised background actors working in the Canadian screen industry, three backgrounding practices are identified that naturalise the workplace background and minimise these workers’ labour: silencing, dividing, and objectifying. ‘Backgrounding’ as a concept highlights how the workplace background is constituted through day-to-day practices where labour is visible but socially constructed as ‘irrelevant’. The final discussion emphasises how backgrounding connects to other concepts for understanding devalued work (e.g., invisible work, or hidden work) within low-status occupations.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148768838","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 Essay Disruption, Reproduction and Transformation: Handbooks in the Sociology of Work and Organizations CleggStewart R.HardyCynthiaNordWalter R. (eds) Handbook of Organization StudiesLondon: Sage, 1996 (2nd ed. 2006), hbk (ISBN: 0-7619-5132-6), 730 pp.TsoukasHaridimosKnudsenChristian (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-Theoretical PerspectivesOxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, hbk (ISBN: 0-19-925832-5), 644 pp.AckroydStephenBattRosemaryThompsonPaulTalbertPamela (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Work and OrganizationOxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pbk (ISBN: 976-0-19-929924-9), 655 pp.BarryDavedHansenHans (eds) The Sage Handbook of New Approaches in Management and OrganizationLondon: Sage, 2008, hbk (ISBN: 978-1-4129-1218-1), 609 pp.AdlerPaul S. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical FoundationsOxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, hbk (ISBN: 978-0-19-953523-1), 679 pp.ReesChrisBozkurtOdulLimoncelliStephanie A.PremingerJonathan (eds) Handbook on the Sociology of WorkCheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2025, hbk (ISBN: 978-1-0353-0236-9), 480 pp.","authors":"Michael Reed","doi":"10.1177/09500170261467614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261467614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"159 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148768837","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}