Work, Employment & Society

WES is a leading international journal of the BSA. We publish original research on the sociology of work. [email protected]

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📣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. 🔗👇
https://t.co/OWcsK7aEqm

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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.
https://t.co/BqIFxoEatn

[The BSA @britsoci]

The BSA has expressed its sorrow at the death of Professor Michael Burawoy, “A respected colleague whose brilliant scholarship reshaped our understanding of industrial labour – his absence will be keenly felt across our community” https://t.co/3WlVxM3crZ

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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.
https://t.co/45BlI2uuUQ

[Work, Employment & Society @WESjnl]

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.

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https://t.co/arIRdWBRef

[Work, Employment & Society @WESjnl]

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.
https://t.co/REiMm6lvVM

[Work, Employment & Society @WESjnl]

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
https://t.co/Y7Gjh8S8fl

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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.
https://t.co/piSfFF5ux5

[Work, Employment & Society @WESjnl]

📣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. 🔗👇
https://t.co/OWcsK7aEqm

[Work, Employment & Society @WESjnl]

‘@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.
https://t.co/IkQTNcn8cw

[Work, Employment & Society @WESjnl]

‘[@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.
https://t.co/ZyIy8SvDJF

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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.
https://t.co/5sdQQ1QMkn

[Work, Employment & Society @WESjnl]

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
https://t.co/POQ2IV7P7H

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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.

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https://t.co/8n4HrCVf3S

[Work, Employment & Society @WESjnl]

‘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.
https://t.co/GPP1QHZJBF

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Vincent Pasquier, Rémi Bourguignon, and Géraldine Schmidt explore how unions can influence employer decisions to downsize.

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https://t.co/x0kwOrprbi

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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.
https://t.co/yfcdUkQgn8

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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.

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https://t.co/ipb2Ym5pu1

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Congratulations to Simon Walo for receiving BSA’s 2024 Sage Prize for Innovation/Excellence! His article can be found on Work, Employment and Society (@wesjnl ), so check it out here: https://t.co/61Zdfhy8LF

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Kathryn A Boyle explores the role of subjective agency and politicised union leadership in exercising societal (discursive) power.

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https://t.co/N9DN0VGz7g

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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.

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https://t.co/UTrSRHODnh