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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: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… @‌britsoci

Phillip Wotschack and Claire Samtleben examin the role of internal labour market characteristics in the promotion prospects and wage increases of workers in semi-skilled and unskilled positions. Read more below #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/095001…

‘Constructing Mobilities’ shows how the disciplining elements in the Italian construction sector follow workers to their postings abroad and enhance their disposability. Read more below. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

‘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. Read the article #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/095001…

Kathryn A Boyle explores the role of subjective agency and politicised union leadership in exercising societal (discursive) power. Read the full article #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/095001…

‘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. Read the full article below. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

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. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

Vincent Pasquier, Rémi Bourguignon, and Géraldine Schmidt explore how unions can influence employer decisions to downsize. Read now #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/095001…

‘Sotiropoulou entrenches her work on the subject of quantity, recognising that in the contemporary context, quantification is a given.’ Konstantinos Kerasovitis (Konstantinos) reviews Machines Against Measures below. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

Danny Buckley, Prof. Natalia Vershinina and Peter Rodgers use nudge theory, originating from behavioural economics, to show how informal work becomes legitimised through nudging. Read the more #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/095001…

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 doi.org/10.1177/095001…

‘Waters tackles a powerful topic with original and strong research materials, advancing an ailing sociology of suicide and integrating it with labour studies.’ Read William Fleming’s review of Suicide Voices below. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

‘[Pablo Pérez Ahumada] 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. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

‘tiziano bonini @tbonini.bsky.social and Emiliano Treré'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. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

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 doi.org/10.1177/095001…

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, Maranda Ridgway, Dr Louise Oldridge and Michaela Edwards below. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

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. Read the full article #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/095001…

“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. doi.org/10.1177/095001…

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” tinyurl.com/ndzd2955