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Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment (2024)
Journal Article
Beck, V., Warren, T., & Lyonette, C. (2024). Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment. Work, Employment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241254794

Underemployment is a widely discussed but complex concept. This article progresses discussions and provides a new sociological conceptualisation. It builds on a classic theory of unemployment, Jahoda et al.’s ‘latent deprivation theory’ (LDT), that i... Read More about Is any job better than no job? Utilising Jahoda's latent deprivation theory to reconceptualise underemployment.

Work-time, male-breadwinning and the division of domestic labour: male part-time and full-time workers in unsettled times (2021)
Journal Article
Warren, T. (2022). Work-time, male-breadwinning and the division of domestic labour: male part-time and full-time workers in unsettled times. Sociology, 56(1), 72-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211019660

The majority of male workers spend full-time hours in the labour market while part-time employment is heavily female dominated. A decade of economic unrest in the UK following the recession of 2008-9 was accompanied by a considerable expansion in the... Read More about Work-time, male-breadwinning and the division of domestic labour: male part-time and full-time workers in unsettled times.

Work-life balance and gig work. ‘Where are we now’ and ‘where to next’ with the work-life balance agenda? (2021)
Journal Article
Warren, T. (2021). Work-life balance and gig work. ‘Where are we now’ and ‘where to next’ with the work-life balance agenda?. Journal of Industrial Relations, 63(4), 522-545. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221856211007161

The paper asks ‘Where are we’ in the study of work-life balance within IR and ‘where to next’ if we are to identify levers for positive change in workplace gender equality as technology brings the potential for smoothing or disrupting how women and m... Read More about Work-life balance and gig work. ‘Where are we now’ and ‘where to next’ with the work-life balance agenda?.

Ungrateful slaves? An examination of job quality and job satisfaction for male part‐time workers in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Warren, T., & Lyonette, C. (2020). Ungrateful slaves? An examination of job quality and job satisfaction for male part‐time workers in the UK. British Journal of Sociology, 71(2), 382-402. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12741

Research on part‐time work has concentrated over many decades on the experiences of women but male part‐time employment is growing in the UK. This article addresses two sizable gaps in knowledge concerning male part‐timers: are men's part‐time jobs o... Read More about Ungrateful slaves? An examination of job quality and job satisfaction for male part‐time workers in the UK.