Pub Date : 2026-02-01DOI: 10.1177/09500170251407089
Unnar Theodorsson
{"title":"Book Review: Peter Cappelli, Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting is Bad for Business and Employees CappelliPeterOur Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting is Bad for Business and EmployeesOxford; New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023, £23.99 hbk, (ISBN: 9780197629802), 240 pp.","authors":"Unnar Theodorsson","doi":"10.1177/09500170251407089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251407089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146098207","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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-31DOI: 10.1177/09500170251386564
Myra Hamilton, Marian Baird, Angela Kintominas, Alison Williams
This article explores how older workers experience inclusion and exclusion in two large Australian public sector organisations with strong diversity and inclusion (D&I) agendas. Applying detailed qualitative analysis and drawing on the concepts of the ideal worker and structured ambivalence, it examines how older employees navigate workplaces that promote inclusion while marginalising ageing workers. Participants benefited from certain policies but also encountered persistent age-based stereotypes that framed them as less capable and productive, based on chrononormative expectations and assumptions about older workers’ cognitive and physical capacities. These contradictions produced structured ambivalence – simultaneous experiences of inclusion and exclusion shaped by conflicting institutional norms. Consequently, the ideal worker norm, while more flexible for some groups, such as mothers of young children, remains stubborn for older workers, who may conceal their age or downplay their needs to maintain a viable worker identity. The findings call for age-inclusive D&I frameworks.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1177/09500170251386322
Carla Brega, Mara A. Yerkes, Marc Grau-Grau
Flexible work arrangements significantly impact childcare divisions among dual-earner parents, yet few studies address their impact on fathers as primary caregivers. This article explores the relationship between fathers’ ability to work flexibly and their share of childcare responsibility across financial situations. A capabilities perspective is applied to better understand why fathers’ childcare aspirations may not align with what they are capable of in practice. Using 2021 survey data on fathers ( n = 493) and mothers ( n = 472) of young children in different-sex partnerships from four European countries, multinomial logistic regressions are estimated to predict childcare responsibility. Findings suggest fathers’ spatial flexibility (working from home) increases their likelihood of being the person primarily responsible for childcare, whereas temporal flexibility (varying the start/end times of the working day) does not. Economic conditions influence these dynamics, with financially strained fathers benefiting most from spatial flexibility.
{"title":"Fathers Combining Work and Care: Flexible Work Arrangements and Paternal Involvement Across Financial Situations","authors":"Carla Brega, Mara A. Yerkes, Marc Grau-Grau","doi":"10.1177/09500170251386322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251386322","url":null,"abstract":"Flexible work arrangements significantly impact childcare divisions among dual-earner parents, yet few studies address their impact on fathers as primary caregivers. This article explores the relationship between fathers’ ability to work flexibly and their share of childcare responsibility across financial situations. A capabilities perspective is applied to better understand why fathers’ childcare aspirations may not align with what they are capable of in practice. Using 2021 survey data on fathers ( <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n</jats:italic> = 493) and mothers ( <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n</jats:italic> = 472) of young children in different-sex partnerships from four European countries, multinomial logistic regressions are estimated to predict childcare responsibility. Findings suggest fathers’ spatial flexibility (working from home) increases their likelihood of being the person primarily responsible for childcare, whereas temporal flexibility (varying the start/end times of the working day) does not. Economic conditions influence these dynamics, with financially strained fathers benefiting most from spatial flexibility.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145961796","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}
Pub Date : 2026-01-09DOI: 10.1177/09500170251401491
Virginia Doellgast, Sean O’Brady, Jeonghun Kim
This article analyses the experiences of US and Canadian call centre workers and their unions with the shift from physical call centres to ‘work from home’ (WFH) arrangements. Drawing on interviews, focus groups and a worker survey, the authors find that the shift enabled new forms of spatial control grounded in worker preferences for remote work and associated with different forms of precarity. Management control over the physical location of work could increase job insecurity; control over the costs and risk associated with WFH arrangements could increase income insecurity; and control over communication between workers and with their unions could increase collective representation and voice insecurity. Local unions engaged in modes of resistance to spatial control, but with uneven success. Findings suggest that labour power requires union strategies that both defend WFH rights and develop protections targeted at forms of precarity associated with being able to work from home.
{"title":"Spatial Control, Precarity, and Union Resistance in Digital Remote Work: An Analysis of ‘Work From Home’ in US and Canadian Call Centres","authors":"Virginia Doellgast, Sean O’Brady, Jeonghun Kim","doi":"10.1177/09500170251401491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251401491","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the experiences of US and Canadian call centre workers and their unions with the shift from physical call centres to ‘work from home’ (WFH) arrangements. Drawing on interviews, focus groups and a worker survey, the authors find that the shift enabled new forms of spatial control grounded in worker preferences for remote work and associated with different forms of precarity. Management control over the physical location of work could increase job insecurity; control over the costs and risk associated with WFH arrangements could increase income insecurity; and control over communication between workers and with their unions could increase collective representation and voice insecurity. Local unions engaged in modes of resistance to spatial control, but with uneven success. Findings suggest that labour power requires union strategies that both defend WFH rights and develop protections targeted at forms of precarity associated with being able to work from home.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145920494","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}
Pub Date : 2025-12-31DOI: 10.1177/09500170251398779
Alicja McGarrigle
{"title":"Book Review: Paul de Beer, The Labour Market Myth: How the Market Metaphor Hinders Our Understanding of Work de BeerPaulThe Labour Market Myth: How the Market Metaphor Hinders Our Understanding of WorkCheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, £80 hbk, (ISBN: 9781035334445), 154 pp.","authors":"Alicja McGarrigle","doi":"10.1177/09500170251398779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251398779","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145893900","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}
Pub Date : 2025-12-31DOI: 10.1177/09500170251386757
Simon Schaupp, Jan Meier
Although it is widely acknowledged that vulnerability to climate change is distributed unevenly, the significance of differences in working conditions remains understudied. This article explores workplace climate vulnerability through analysis of the ‘politics of production’, understood as the interaction between negotiations at the level of institutional regulation and those pertaining to the labour process. The matter is considered through interviews with Jan, a Swiss construction worker. Jan’s narrative indicates that a ‘politics of production’ does not represent clashes of pre-existing interests but rather themselves generate definite subjectivities that in turn influence how climate change is negotiated. For example, norms of masculinity which prescribe the silent endurance of pain, can prevent individuals from taking action to protect themselves from the effects of climate change. The perspective of a ‘politics of production’ also aids in the understanding of a persistent maladaptation to climate change now causing further environmental and worker-related strains.
{"title":"Climate Change Vulnerability and the Politics of Production on Swiss Construction Sites","authors":"Simon Schaupp, Jan Meier","doi":"10.1177/09500170251386757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251386757","url":null,"abstract":"Although it is widely acknowledged that vulnerability to climate change is distributed unevenly, the significance of differences in working conditions remains understudied. This article explores workplace climate vulnerability through analysis of the ‘politics of production’, understood as the interaction between negotiations at the level of institutional regulation and those pertaining to the labour process. The matter is considered through interviews with Jan, a Swiss construction worker. Jan’s narrative indicates that a ‘politics of production’ does not represent clashes of pre-existing interests but rather themselves generate definite subjectivities that in turn influence how climate change is negotiated. For example, norms of masculinity which prescribe the silent endurance of pain, can prevent individuals from taking action to protect themselves from the effects of climate change. The perspective of a ‘politics of production’ also aids in the understanding of a persistent maladaptation to climate change now causing further environmental and worker-related strains.","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145895539","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}
Pub Date : 2025-12-26DOI: 10.1177/09500170251398387
Yihan Fu
{"title":"Book Review: Marek Korczynski, The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It KorczynskiMarekThe Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need ItBristol: Bristol University Press, 2024, £29.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9781529229134), 232 pp.","authors":"Yihan Fu","doi":"10.1177/09500170251398387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251398387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145830198","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}
Pub Date : 2025-12-26DOI: 10.1177/09500170251403837
Santanu Sarkar, Andy Charlwood
Global union federations’ (GUFs’) global campaigns are key institutions of labour transnationalism. They aim to enhance the living and working conditions for workers worldwide, including in the Global South. However, existing theory does not fully explain observed patterns in campaign outcomes. In a context where many transnational campaigns fail to achieve substantive gains for workers, what makes some campaigns succeed? Why are such successes rare? This article addresses these questions by drawing on power resource theory as a lens to investigate the successes and limitations of two GUF campaigns in Nestlé and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in India. Campaign successes were the result of the glocalisation of the organising model of trade unionism. This means that campaigns adapted the organising model ideas and practices to local conditions by working with strong local partners. In doing this, they created associational power resources through the iterative development of coalitional and ideational power resources. Therefore, the overall contribution is to show how successful GUF campaigns build union power resources through the glocalisation of the organising model. It also highlights the structural constraints that make it hard for GUFs to scale this approach.
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