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Work, Employment and Society Template

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About the Work, Employment and Society format

Work, Employment and Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Labor Movements and Unions, Employment and Welfare Studies, Social Policy and Reform Studies. Over its lifetime it has published 4,322 papers, which have received 94,160 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Work, Employment and Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inLabor Movements and Unions Employment and Welfare Studies Social Policy and Reform Studies Digital Economy and Work Transformation Work-Family Balance Challenges
ISSN0950-0170
Citation impact (2-yr)2.18
h-index135
i10-index1,495
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Warwick
Journal websitewes.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Work, Employment and Society per year

95
2014
137
2015
109
2016
77
2017
74
2018
83
2019
104
2020
115
2021
89
2022
66
2023
60
2024
75
2025

Citation impact of Work, Employment and Society by publication year

3.8K
2014
3.8K
2015
3.2K
2016
2.5K
2017
4.8K
2018
3.5K
2019
2.5K
2020
2K
2021
1.6K
2022
657
2023
284
2024
67
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Work, Employment and Society

Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy

Alex J. Wood, Mark Graham, Vili Lehdonvirta et al. · 8 Aug 2018

This article evaluates the job quality of work in the remote gig economy. Such work consists of the remote provision of a wide variety of digital services mediated by online labour platforms. Focusing on workers in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the article draws on semi-structured interviews in six countries ( N = 107) and…

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Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers

Bridget Anderson · 1 Jun 2010

Immigration controls are often presented by government as a means of ensuring ‘British jobs for British workers’ and protecting migrants from exploitation. However, in practice they can undermine labour protections. As well as a tap regulating the flow of labour, immigration controls function as a mould, helping to form types of labour with particular relations…

Riders on the Storm: Workplace Solidarity among Gig Economy Couriers in Italy and the UK

Arianna Tassinari, Vincenzo Maccarrone · 26 Jul 2019

In light of the individualisation, dispersal and pervasive monitoring that characterise work in the ‘gig economy’, the development of solidarity among gig workers could be expected to be unlikely. However, numerous recent episodes of gig workers’ mobilisation require reconsideration of these assumptions. This article contributes to the debate about potentials and obstacles for solidarity in…

Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’ for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia

Alex Veen, Tom Barratt, Caleb Goods · 25 Mar 2019

This qualitative case study adopts a labour process analysis to unpack the distinctive features of capital’s control regimes in the food-delivery segment of the Australian platform-economy and assesses labour agency in response to these. Drawing upon worker experiences with the Deliveroo and UberEATS platforms, it is shown how the labour process controls are multi-facetted and…

Trolley Dolly or Skilled Emotion Manager? Moving on from Hochschild's Managed Heart

Sharon C. Bolton, Carol J. Boyd · 1 Jun 2003

This article examines emotion in organizations and the emotion management skills organizational actors possess. While Hochschild's (1983) seminal work on emotional labour is perhaps one of the greatest contributions to our understanding of emotion in organizations, this article challenges key tenets of Hochschild's thesis and goes on to offer an evolved analysis of emotional labour…

Work, Employment and Society template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Work, Employment and Society format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Work, Employment and Society template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Work, Employment and Society use?
Work, Employment and Society uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Work, Employment and Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Work, Employment and Society?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Work, Employment and Society document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Work, Employment and Society template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Work, Employment and Society format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
What is Work, Employment and Society?
SAGE journal (sagej). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by SAGE.
Can I export a submission-ready Work, Employment and Society PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Work, Employment and Society template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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