Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1177/09500170251393618
Laura Goßner, Maye Ehab
This article examines the impact of fixed-term employment on subjective well-being among natives, migrants and refugees in Germany and the underlying mechanisms of this relationship. Utilizing longitudinal data from 2016 to 2021, we employ fixed-effects panel models and mediation analyses. We find that refugees experience stronger negative effects of fixed-term employment on their well-being than natives and migrants, especially shortly after their arrival. For migrants and natives, subjective job insecurity significantly mediates these effects, while it is less relevant for refugees. Our results indicate that it is essential to acknowledge the heterogeneous effects for vulnerable groups when studying the impact of fixed-term employment. During their integration process, refugees encounter complex labour market challenges which can pose threats to their subjective well-being. Therefore, we suggest engaging more in debates about non-standard forms of employment and taking aspects of the quality of employment into account when designing integration measures for this group.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-05DOI: 10.1177/09500170251395106
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Pub Date : 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1177/09500170251394119
Vera Trappmann
{"title":"Book Review: Valeria Pulignano and Markieta Domecka The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the Study of Unpaid Labour Can Help Address Inequality in Precarious Work PulignanoValeriaDomeckaMarkieta The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the Study of Unpaid Labour Can Help Address Inequality in Precarious Work Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025, £99 hbk, (ISBN: 9780198888130), 320 pp.","authors":"Vera Trappmann","doi":"10.1177/09500170251394119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251394119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145664447","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 : 2025-12-01DOI: 10.1177/09500170251386756
Alessandro Gandini, Gianmarco Peterlongo, Marta Tonetta
This article illustrates the most common trajectories that bring workers of different walks of life to undertake a career in ‘neo-craft’ work. This is a postindustrial form of craft work whereby manual occupations that are traditionally considered to be low-status, or performed by the working class, are transformed into ‘cool’ jobs through the infusion of craft principles. Based on extensive qualitative research in the European Union, we show how neo-craft work has been the beneficiary of patterns of exit from other forms of waged work, both preceding and following the pandemic, and document the motivations underpinning these workers’ professional reconversions. Drawing from social theorist Hartmut Rosa, we argue that neo-craft work is considered to be meaningful since it is perceived as a conveyor of resonance, and propose to consider resonance as an emergent dimension of meaningful work.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1177/09500170251396382
Emily Yarrow, Shiv Varma, Matthew J. Brannan
We document the lived experience of Shiv, a care home recruitment manager, during the period of mandated employee vaccination in the COVID-19 pandemic. Care homes in the United Kingdom, as in many parts of the world, became a brutal front line in the battle to mitigate the pandemic’s worst effects. Residents and staff were among the most vulnerable to infection, a risk heightened by failure to test incoming residents and employees. In response to rising mortality in care homes, the UK government made vaccination a condition of employment from 11 November 2021. Through Shiv’s reflective narrative, we examine the ethical tensions and practical challenges of enforcing mandatory vaccination in care homes – and the confusion and consequences that followed its abrupt withdrawal.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1177/09500170251386331
Rick Sullivan, Myra Hamilton, Alex Veen
This article examines how algorithmic management (re)shapes managerial understandings of risk within homecare. Engaging with the sociology of risk and care theory, we extend algorithmic management debates by examining its application in homebased disability and aged care. Drawing upon interviews with senior managers ( n = 15) from Australian homecare organisations, we explore how algorithmic management influences how risk is recognised and responsibilised. A notable difference of algorithmic management in homecare compared with other sectors is that a primary use for these systems is to support compliance and reduce harm, with the management of risks framed as a key care practice for managers. Our findings reveal that in homecare these systems, from a care perspective, enable organisations to operationalise risk, yet at the same time, institutionalise new managerial rationalities that both recalibrate and complicate care oversight. Finally, our findings highlight the importance of regulatory pressures in shaping how algorithmic management is used.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-28DOI: 10.1177/09500170251380739
Ward van Zoonen, Anu E Sivunen
This study explores how the interplay between perceived autonomy and dependence in online crowdwork shapes workers’ perceptions of fairness and frustration. Promises of autonomy entice workers to crowdwork, yet these promises often mask deeper dependencies on platforms and requesters. This study finds that high autonomy, when coupled with high dependence, may have adverse effects on fairness and frustration. These findings contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the interplay between autonomy and dependence in online crowdwork. Workers with low autonomy are less affected by dependence, while those with high autonomy are more likely to perceive platforms as operating unfairly when coupled with high dependence. These findings support the fauxtonomy hypothesis, demonstrating how autonomy, under conditions of dependence, creates a sense of false self-employment and amplifies worker frustration. Addressing these disparities is critical to ensuring fair treatment and reducing frustration among platform workers, especially for those who feel trapped in high-dependence situations.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1177/09500170251393181
Mitja Stefancic
{"title":"Book Review Essay: On the Future of Workers and the Lack of Effective Political Solutions Andrew HerodAl RainnieMcGrath-ChampSusanIndustry 4.0 and the Future of Work: Global Production Networks, Global Disassembly Networks, and the Circular EconomyCheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2024, £110 hbk, (ISBN: 9781800375369), 320 pp.RobertsJohn MichaelDigital, Class, Work: Before and During COVID-19Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024, £95 hbk, (ISBN: 9781399502931), 296 pp.WebsterEdwardDorLynfordRecasting Workers’ Power: Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital AgeBristol: University of Bristol Press, 2023, £25 pbk, (ISBN: 9781529218794), 200 pp.","authors":"Mitja Stefancic","doi":"10.1177/09500170251393181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170251393181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":"187 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145582995","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 : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1177/09500170251386329
Tine Molendijk
To date, the interrelations between mental health and ethical challenges in frontline professions, such as the military, police and health care, have remained underexamined. This article addresses this gap by developing a contextual model of moral injury: psychosocial trauma resulting from morally significant experiences. This model is the result of grounded theory research with 50 expert interviews, 250 hours of participant observation and 170 interviews with former military and police personnel, iteratively analysed through an emerging multidisciplinary framework, including the concepts of moral injury, dirty work and recognition. The framework encompasses personal, situational, occupational, organisational, socio-political and technical dimensions. This study both contributes to a paradigm shift in understanding trauma and advances sociological research on the experience of frontline work. It expands the focus beyond individual pathology to include ethical and contextual dimensions of moral injury, providing comprehensive insight into the omnipresent and complex moral-psychological dimensions of frontline work.
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