Mothers who choose to work from home regularly earn around 10% more than those who do not, but fathers get no significant benefit, a major new study says. The study…

The BSA journal, Work, Employment and Society (WES) has just held its first PhD Showcase paper development workshop.  In 2022, WES founded the PhD Showcase Section as a new section…

How, where and why do platform workers protest? Platform work, exemplified by firms like Uber and Deliveroo, attracts seemingly endless discussion; journalistic, political, and sociological. Policy debates generally associate platforms…

People who work from home all or part of the time are less likely to get pay rises and promotions, the first post-Covid research project into the WFH phenomenon has…

After launching a new article format aimed to support and champion doctoral researchers in the sociology of work, BSA journal Work, Employment and Society (WES) has now released a video…

The theory that many people feel the work they do is pointless because their jobs are ‘bullshit’ has been confirmed by a new study. The research found that people working…

That meaningful waged work matters was never in doubt. Not in doubt before, during and after industrialization. At least not in doubt by workers and unions, and rarely questioned by…

Women are more stressed than men when their employment hours are split into different sections during the day, such as with flexitime and working from home, new research shows. Zhuofei…

In the context of an ageing population and rising demand for care services, employment prospects for care workers are projected to grow. One response to this has been the emergence…