Outputs (13)

The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It (2024)
Book
Korczynski, M. (2024). The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It. Bristol University Press

This book injects a burst of energy into the sociology of work, offering a perspective that is both innovative and deeply informed.

Leading sociology of work scholar, Marek Korczynski, praises the discipline’s comprehensive approach to theory, its... Read More about The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It.

Informal Cultures of Resistance and Worker Mobilization: The Case of Migrant Workers in the Italian Logistics Sector (2024)
Journal Article
Cioce, G., Però, D., & Korczynski, M. (2024). Informal Cultures of Resistance and Worker Mobilization: The Case of Migrant Workers in the Italian Logistics Sector. Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241268365

In the context of the rising power of capital over labour, research on labour mobilization is important. From the research literature, we know that labour mobilizations might be initiated by trade unions or via workers’ self-organization. Yet, we kno... Read More about Informal Cultures of Resistance and Worker Mobilization: The Case of Migrant Workers in the Italian Logistics Sector.

How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors (2024)
Journal Article
Vedi, P., Korczynski, M., & Bishop, S. (2025). How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors. Work, Employment and Society, 39(1), 163-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170231225615

Sociological analysis of emotional labour can be aided by considering how institutional logics inform the performance of emotional labour. We consider the link between institutional logics and emotional labour by conducting an in-depth case study of... Read More about How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors.

After-Progress: Commoning in Degrowth (2023)
Journal Article
Wittel, A., & Korczynski, M. (2023). After-Progress: Commoning in Degrowth. The Commoner,

What does it mean to live with the threat of extinction? We make a case that living with the threat of extinction logically can only mean that we have to abandon the modernist ideology of progress. We review ideas of societal progress and note the de... Read More about After-Progress: Commoning in Degrowth.

The Role of Community Organisations in the Collective Mobilisation of Migrant Workers: The Importance of a ‘Community’-Oriented Perspective (2023)
Journal Article
Jiang, J., & Korczynski, M. (2024). The Role of Community Organisations in the Collective Mobilisation of Migrant Workers: The Importance of a ‘Community’-Oriented Perspective. Work, Employment and Society, 38(2), 339-357. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170221138008

In examining the collective mobilisation of migrant workers, scholars have explored the emergence of community organisations as alternative forms of worker representation. However, community unionism scholars tend to adopt a union-centric perspective... Read More about The Role of Community Organisations in the Collective Mobilisation of Migrant Workers: The Importance of a ‘Community’-Oriented Perspective.

The improvised language of solidarity: Linguistic practices in the participatory labour-organizing processes of multi-ethnic migrant workers (2022)
Journal Article
Cioce, G., Korczynski, M., & Però, D. (2023). The improvised language of solidarity: Linguistic practices in the participatory labour-organizing processes of multi-ethnic migrant workers. Human Relations, 76(12), 1855-1880. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267221119775

There are considerable language barriers facing the potential collective labour organization of multi-ethnic migrant workers. From the research literature, we know little about linguistic practices that might overcome these barriers. Based on an ethn... Read More about The improvised language of solidarity: Linguistic practices in the participatory labour-organizing processes of multi-ethnic migrant workers.

The social contract of work: Moving beyond the psychological contract (2022)
Journal Article
Korczynski, M. (2023). The social contract of work: Moving beyond the psychological contract. Human Resource Management Journal, 33(1), 115-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12450

This paper develops the critique of psychologisation by going narrow and deep into the analysis of the concept of the psychological contract. In its early incarnation, the psychological contract literature explored key elements at the heart of the em... Read More about The social contract of work: Moving beyond the psychological contract.

The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations (2020)
Journal Article
Korczynski, M., & Wittel, A. (2020). The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations. Sociology, 54(4), 711-726. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520904711

One of the most important focuses in social theory within the last decade has been upon the commons. We contribute to the emerging scholarship on the commons. We point out that this literature tends to neglect the workplace. We then argue that the wo... Read More about The Workplace Commons: Towards Understanding Commoning within Work Relations.

The art of labour organizing: Participatory art and migrant domestic workers’ self-organizing in London (2019)
Journal Article
Jiang, Z., & Korczynski, M. (2021). The art of labour organizing: Participatory art and migrant domestic workers’ self-organizing in London. Human Relations, 74(6), 842-868. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726719890664

There has been an upsurge of interest regarding how actors engage with art within organizational processes. However, scholars have tended not to study the role of art within contemporary collective labor organizing. This paper focuses on how particip... Read More about The art of labour organizing: Participatory art and migrant domestic workers’ self-organizing in London.

The consumption of work: Representations and interpretations of the meaning of work at a UK university (2017)
Journal Article
Chertkovskaya, E., Korczynski, M., & Taylor, S. (2020). The consumption of work: Representations and interpretations of the meaning of work at a UK university. Organization, 27(4), 517-536. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508417734056

This paper focuses on representations of the nexus of work, meaning and consumption as experienced by university students. We develop an empirically based argument that the meaning of work is being constructed as an object of consumption on a British... Read More about The consumption of work: Representations and interpretations of the meaning of work at a UK university.