{"title":"‘Straight from a Night Shift to the Infusions’: Crip Temporalities at Work","authors":"Hana Porkertová, Veronika Kotýnková Krotká","doi":"10.1177/09500170261432090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261432090","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how disabled people navigate normative temporalities in the workplace through everyday practices of adaptation and resistance. Grounded in qualitative research with disabled participants, it examines how linear, productivity-driven temporal norms—referred to as <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">chrononormativity</jats:italic> —shape discriminatory and exclusionary structures that possess constitutive power in the production of disability. Using the lens of crip time, the analysis reveals how ongoing temporal negotiations and adjustments generate additional labour for disabled people and challenge the common assumption that flexibility offers a sufficient remedy to temporal constraints. The article thereby contributes to broader debates on disability, work and precarity while strengthening and empirically supporting critiques of the ableist foundations of the labour system, which marginalise those whose temporalities diverge from the norm. Ultimately, it calls for temporality—until now largely overlooked—to be foregrounded as one of the key structuring forces of ableism in the workplace.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148285973","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":"Solidarity and Contentiousness in Migrant Worker Mobilisation: Syndicalist Unionisation in Sweden","authors":"Rasmus Ahlstrand","doi":"10.1177/09500170261432085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261432085","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the mobilisation of migrant workers in SAC, the main syndicalist trade union in Sweden. It theorises mobilisation and solidarity from a labour process perspective and, based on ethnography, identifies <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">accessibility</jats:italic> , <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">contentiousness</jats:italic> and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">belonging</jats:italic> as key mechanisms to explain the union’s form of mobilisation. By drawing on the class struggle unionism framework, it conceptualises two strategies – of ‘collapsing servicing and organising’ and ‘participation follows action’ – to explain why and how SAC is successful in its mobilisation efforts. It shows that SAC’s confrontational methods mobilise a migrant worker community where workers’ intersubjective experiences of migration and precariousness shape solidarity and build associational power. The article concludes that SAC’s mobilisation of migrant workers is groundbreaking in a Swedish context and that class struggle unionism has plenty to offer also to other unions.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286016","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":"When Home is the Workplace: Foregrounding Ethical Responses to Domestic Violence When Working-from-home","authors":"Mihajla Gavin, Ruth Weatherall","doi":"10.1177/09500170261434879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261434879","url":null,"abstract":"Domestic violence (DV) is a global problem affecting individuals, communities and societies, and increasingly a workplace problem. During the COVID-19 pandemic, home became both the workplace under government-directed lockdowns and a site for increased DV in a ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence. This article examines how workplaces supported DV victim–survivors when working-from-home during lockdowns. Drawing primary data from interviews with DV first-responders in Aotearoa New Zealand workplaces, a country with epidemic levels of DV, we theorise how workplaces conceptualised their responsibility for DV across ‘blurred’ spaces of home and work and enacted duty of care obligations when working-from-home. We argue that given DV is a complex work health and safety risk, mere legal compliance for protecting victims when working-from-home falls short of employers’ ethical responsibilities for ensuring safe workplaces and preventing violence.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286017","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":"Working Through Alienation? The Ambivalent Promise of Craft","authors":"Stephan M Schaefer, Anselm Schneider","doi":"10.1177/09500170261434883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261434883","url":null,"abstract":"Craft is re-emerging in debates on improving contemporary work. A recurring theme in research on craft is its potential to thwart alienation, which is considered one of the central pathologies of modern work. Through a case study of the Swedish craft beer community, we examine craft’s potential for de-alienating work. Drawing on Jaeggi’s conception of alienation as a <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">relation of relationlessness</jats:italic> , we show that craftworkers cultivate relations to themselves and to their material and social environments. These relations foster receptiveness and transformation, enabling experiences of work as unalienated. Yet, craft work also remains deeply ambivalent: to sustain unalienated experiences, craftworkers must accept several downsides of craft work. Our findings suggest that de-alienation in craft is best understood as a continuous process of negotiating alienation, which is constrained by the broader dynamics of capitalism.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286020","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":"Bridge-building Emotional Labour: The Emotional Labour of Boundary Spanners Who Match Disadvantaged Claimants with Employers","authors":"Merete Monrad","doi":"10.1177/09500170261425868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261425868","url":null,"abstract":"The practices of frontline workers in public job centres who try to match disadvantaged claimants with employers are discussed in this article, based on a case study of Danish job centres. The notion of <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">bridge-building emotional labour</jats:italic> and the frontline practices and tensions involved in matching disadvantaged claimants with employers are presented, which contribute to understanding the emotional labour involved in boundary spanning. The study shows how frontline workers’ emotional labour is directed towards bridging key institutional logics: bureaucracy (efficient policy implementation), consumerism (customer service directed towards employers) and professionalism (professional empathy for vulnerable claimants). Through bridge-building emotional labour, frontline workers try to diminish the gap between the policy goals of public street-level organizations, the demands of the labour market and the reduced ability to work of disadvantaged claimants.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286136","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":"The Intensification–Extensification Dynamic: Hybrid Work and Digital Connectivity","authors":"Abigail Marks, Gustav Bösehans, Oliver Mallett","doi":"10.1177/09500170261424133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261424133","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how remote and hybrid work reshape the spatio-temporal organisation of labour through the dynamics of intensification and extensification. Drawing on three waves of survey data, each with over 1000 participants during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside longitudinal interviews with 90 participants, the analysis shows that information and communication technology (ICT)-driven intensification undermines wellbeing by generating work–life conflict. Extensification – the temporal, spatial and psychological diffusion of work – both enables and is reinforced by intensification. Gendered differences emerge, especially for women with care roles who experience greater cumulative burdens once hybrid work becomes established. Material resources, such as housing and digital infrastructure, can also stratify experiences. The article concludes that ICT-enabled hybrid work produces a new spatio-temporal regime in which intensification and extensification interact to deepen inequalities.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147684593","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":"The Role of Settlement Intentions (Un-)Certainty in the Labour Market Integration of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany","authors":"Davit Adunts, Kseniia Gatskova, Yuliya Kosyakova, Silvia Schwanhäuser","doi":"10.1177/09500170261425857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261425857","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how (un-)certainty in settlement intentions affects the socio-economic integration of Ukrainian refugees in Germany, using longitudinal data from the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP survey. Applying an instrumental variable approach, we estimate the effects of permanent, temporary, and uncertain settlement intentions on employment, employment aspirations, and host-country language proficiency. Findings show that settlement intention uncertainty hinders integration outcomes – most notably German language acquisition – while temporary intentions are linked to lower language proficiency and reduced employment aspirations. Permanent intentions, in contrast, facilitate stronger integration across all outcomes. Refugees with uncertain plans exhibit intermediate results. Theoretically, the article contributes to migration literature by disentangling the effects of settlement intention certainty from anticipated duration of stay, and by demonstrating how subjective expectations shape forward-looking behaviour. Our results advance Goal-Setting and Rational Choice Theories, and the Immigrant Human Capital Investment model by integrating uncertainty as a key moderating factor in refugees’ integration trajectories.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147682145","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":"Normalisation of Wage and Benefit Theft in the Bangladeshi Garment Industry","authors":"Shoaib Ahmed, Danielle Tucker","doi":"10.1177/09500170261428365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261428365","url":null,"abstract":"Wage and benefit theft is a systemic feature of capitalist organisations, yet it remains critically under-theorised in sociology. Drawing on an in-depth case study of the Bangladeshi garment industry, this article identifies three interrelated mechanisms of wage and benefit theft—denial of the monthly attendance bonus, alternative calculations of maternity allowance and maintenance of two service books—normalised through the interplay of micro-level practices and macro-structural imperatives. This article makes two key contributions. First, it challenges discourses framing such theft as aberrant misconduct by deviant employers, exposing it instead as a routinised, industry-wide exploitation strategy. Second, it advances the theorisation of normalisation by showing how macro-structural conditions foster environments that embed exploitative micro-level practices with impunity. The systematic erosion of meso-level institutions under authoritarian regimes intensifies this normalisation. This article calls for collective resistance to empower trade unions and civil society in confronting the normalisation of wage and benefit theft.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147635905","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":"Resilience, Reworking, Resistance: Collective Forms of Agency among Unorganised Migrant Workers","authors":"Valeria Piro","doi":"10.1177/09500170261425859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261425859","url":null,"abstract":"There is a broad debate concerning migrant workers’ forms of agency and organising. This debate, however, is highly polarised between studies looking at migrants’ participation in established and grassroots unions, and others examining informal, subtle and covert forms of everyday resistance. The latter are commonly framed as individual acts, often exercised by migrant workers through mobility, and are therefore sometimes seen as potentially undermining collective organising. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from the agriculture and meat processing industries in Italy, this article explores forms of agency among unorganised migrant workers that fall between union activity and workers’ individual choices. It distinguishes between collective strategies of resilience, reworking, and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">resistance</jats:italic> , and examines when and how migrant workers engage in them. In conclusion, the article calls for a move beyond dichotomous understanding and encourages a view of resistance in general – and migrant resistance in particular – as a fluid, gradual, and ongoing process.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147635906","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":"When She Works More Than Her Partner: Gender Norms and Women's Life Satisfaction in Australia","authors":"Filippos Maraziotis","doi":"10.1177/09500170261424128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170261424128","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses multiple waves of the HILDA survey to examine how partnered women’s relative working hours affect life satisfaction, accounting for unpaid domestic labour. Women who work more hours than their male partners report significantly lower life satisfaction, primarily due to non-conformity to prevailing gender role expectations in paid work. The decline is greatest among women who also shoulder a disproportionate share of unpaid labour, with well-being losses stemming almost equally from norm non-conformity and time pressures. These findings highlight the enduring impact of gender norms and underscore the need for policies that address both labour market inequality and unequal domestic responsibilities.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147598569","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}