{"title":"Book Review: Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein, Women Managers in American Popular Culture RubinsteinEmanuela BaraschWomen Managers in American Popular CultureNew York: Routledge, 2026, £145 hbk, (ISBN: 978-1-032-97275-6), 158pp.","authors":"Jennifer Pringle","doi":"10.1177/09500170261462735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261462735","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148698819","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":"Work, Ageing, and Retirement: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go from Here?","authors":"Justin Marcus, Hannes Zacher, Kène Henkens","doi":"10.1177/09500170261462740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261462740","url":null,"abstract":"This collection is focused on understanding what we know and what we need to know on the topic of work, ageing and retirement. <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Work, Employment and Society</jats:italic> has published 44 articles on this topic over 35 years, from 1989 to 2024. We analyse this article corpus and identify four themes that shed insight into what sociologists of work and ageing know: the macrostructural perspective, the organisational perspective, individual life courses, and retirement as process. Overall, we find a historical pattern whereby studies have shifted from a top-down structural approach utilising mostly quantitative survey data to an individualised and agentic approach utilising mostly qualitative data. Recent scholarship has begun to blend both structure and agency, introducing theoretical and methodological sophistication to derive more holistic understanding of ageing at work. We select 11 articles using various perspectives, theories, and methods that illustrate these trends. We conclude with suggested key directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148698820","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":"Alternative Organisations and (In)equality: Institutional Voids and Subjectivities in a Refugee Women’s Cooperative","authors":"Deniz Öztürk","doi":"10.1177/09500170261446208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261446208","url":null,"abstract":"This study draws on Labour Process Theory to examine how institutional voids and socio-cultural subjectivities contribute to the persistence of inequality within alternative organisations. Based on a case study of a refugee women’s cooperative in Turkey, I show how the inequalities that characterise the lives of refugees are maintained in a cooperative that is poorly designed to uphold the values and principles of alternative organising. The analysis reveals that formal institutional voids, such as the absence of a supportive legal framework and a top-down governance model, together with internalised subjectivities shaped by patriarchy and authoritarianism, constrain members’ expectations of voice. These dynamics influence the refugee women’s everyday working experiences and result in limited social interactions that remain embedded in societal hierarchies. The findings show that the transformative potential of cooperatives can be undermined by the very social and institutional orders they aim to challenge.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148612525","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":"‘We All Stand Together’ (Or Do We?): Moral Underpinnings of the Emergence and Repression of Solidarity at Work","authors":"Anne Gravelle Antoni, Heather Connolly","doi":"10.1177/09500170261446182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261446182","url":null,"abstract":"Why and when do we feel the impetus to act in solidarity with others? Labour and social movement scholars have long tackled this question to understand the rise and fall of trade unionism and collective action. In this article, we examine how solidarity can emerge by linking industrial relations scholarship with research on morality to clarify the interplay between moral emotions, perceptions of injustice and the construction of a sense of ‘we-ness’ underlying solidarity. Our theorisation extends existing debates by helping to make sense of the often fleeting character of solidaristic feelings, suggesting that the emergence of solidarity is underpinned by a feeling of <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">compassionate anger</jats:italic> that is particularly difficult to sustain under contemporary economic and moral regimes. By focusing on the moral-emotional bases of solidarity, we contribute to ongoing debates on the future of trade unionism and collective action.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148612580","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":"“We Have to Do Something”: The Lived Reality of Investigating Online Child Sexual Abuse in Sweden","authors":"Alva Lindholm, Robin Burrow, Anna Larsson","doi":"10.1177/09500170261432924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261432924","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we foreground the occupational experiences of ‘Anna’, an online child sexual abuse investigator in the Swedish police force. We do so for two main reasons: to provide a much-needed insight into the lived realities of this under-researched form of extreme work; and to progress our theoretical understanding of the phenomenon of moral injury. In relation to the former, through Anna we reveal what the work of investigating online child sexual abuse involves, the challenges investigators encounter and the personal and emotional tolls paid along the way. In relation to the latter, we (re)conceive—and shift the focus of extant analysis—away from moral injury as a purely individualized phenomenon, to understanding the systemic conditions that contribute to, create and amplify it. In doing so what we reveal are the organizational and institutional dimensions of moral injuries, which thus far remain largely overlooked and unexplored.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148612514","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: Sylvie Célérier and Alberto Riesco-Sanz, Workers Without Companies: Towards a New Way of Working CélérierSylvieRiesco-SanzAlbertoWorkers Without Companies: Towards a New Way of Working.Routledge, 2025, £41.99 ebk, (ISBN 9781003319023), 204 pp.","authors":"Murielle Matus","doi":"10.1177/09500170261473531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261473531","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148650575","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":"Communities of Co-Research: Private Hire Drivers’ Self-Organisation in the Platform Gig Economy","authors":"Joe Kearsey","doi":"10.1177/09500170261434882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261434882","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops a processual account and analysis of the collective organisation of app-based private hire drivers in the UK. Contrary to pessimistic studies which highlight the hyper-individualisation of platform workers in the gig economy, this research demonstrates the centrality of community-based and occupational networks among private hire drivers, both in terms of the growth and expansion of ride-hailing platforms, as well as drivers’ combative organisation. It highlights the way in which drivers have engaged in forms of bottom-up labour process knowledge production via these networks in response to the (re)organisation of their work. As a result, app-based private hire drivers have revealed the inner logic of algorithmic management, undermining its purported technological objectivity, while simultaneously developing new tactics of resistance and forms of collective self-organisation.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148612513","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":"Organising a Platform Delivery Workforce in Germany: A Story from the Front Line","authors":"Harvey,Ercüment Çelik","doi":"10.1177/09500170261446220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261446220","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210917","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}
Davide Bizjak,Giuseppe Esposito,Domenico Napolitano,Luigi Maria Sicca,Antonio
{"title":"‘Don’t Give Up, Some People Fight This Battle for Decades’: Illusion of Stability and Enforcement of Precarity in State School Teaching","authors":"Davide Bizjak,Giuseppe Esposito,Domenico Napolitano,Luigi Maria Sicca,Antonio","doi":"10.1177/09500170261446485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261446485","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution draws on the personal narrative of Antonio, a secondary school teacher whose story recounts the illusory nature of stability and the human costs of administrative incoherence in the Italian public education system. His experience – marked by the sudden and contradictory revocation of a permanent contract, frustrating his ‘legitimate expectation’ of stable employment – prompts a wider exploration of the normalization of precarity. We enquire into how political discontinuity and multiple, complicated layers of regulatory frameworks (often rolled out and enforced with chaotic timescales) produce an enforcement of precarity . This enforcement places a profound emotional and administrative toll on those aiming for a permanent job, despite reforms aimed at making the process to stable employment fairer and clearer.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"372 1","pages":"963-974"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899456","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: Tom Vickers, Organizing Amazon: Building Worker Power under Conditions of Fragmentation, Precarity and Regimentation VickersTomOrganizing Amazon: Building Worker Power under Conditions of Fragmentation, Precarity and RegimentationBristol: Bristol University Press, 2025, £14.99 (ISBN: 978-1529254297), 160 pp.","authors":"Conor McCabe","doi":"10.1177/09500170261467618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261467618","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148595537","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}