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Multiple job holding: a critical quantitative methodology

By Darja Reuschke and Tracey Warren

Issue 36 // 8th July 2026

Multiple job holding is far more common than official statistics suggest, and better definitions and administrative data are needed to accurately understand who works multiple jobs and why. Read more of the article

Story completion: A novel, creative method for exploring perceptions and understandings of work and employment-related phenomena

By Victoria Clarke, Kara Daly and Gemma Pike and Vanessa Beck

Issue 36 // 8th July 2026

Story completion is a qualitative method where participants write fictional narratives in response to a researcher-designed prompt, enabling exploration of social meanings and perceptions—especially around sensitive topics—without relying on direct self-report. Read more of the article

Bricolage

By Giorgos Gouzoulis, Vanessa Beck, Blandine Emilien and Christopher Pesterfield

Issue 35 // 20th April 2026

This issue departs from the usual themed approach, instead presenting a diverse collection of articles on unions and Big Tech, worker assetisation, and AI, reflecting the broad and evolving concerns shaping the future of work. Read more of the article

Invested, not employed: Assetisation and the reconfiguration of work

By Pau López-Gaitán

Issue 35 // 20th April 2026

Assetization transforms workers into income-generating assets, reshaping employment, shifting financial risks onto labour, and blurring the boundary between people and the value extracted from them. Read more of the article

From Employees to Assets: Assetisation, LinkedIn, and the Future of Work

By Paul Richard

Issue 35 // 20th April 2026

LinkedIn exemplifies how workers are increasingly encouraged to treat their online identities as assets, enabling organizations to extract value from employees’ personal brand, networks, and self-presentation beyond their formal labour. Read more of the article

Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: the ‘Friend Yet Foe’ Paradox

By Xiaoting Luo and Christopher Pesterfield

Issue 35 // 20th April 2026

Students use AI as both a helpful tool and a questionable shortcut, valuing its efficiency while risking the erosion of critical skills they need for future work. Read more of the article

When workers meet borders: Contestation, exploitation and ideologies

By Jonathan Preminger and Blandine Emilien

Issue 34 // 27th January 2026

This editorial introduces a special issue examining borders as ideological and institutional instruments of power that shape labour, mobility, exploitation and inequality across diverse global contexts. Read more of the article

Mobility, immobility and their valorisation in transnational temporary work

By Claudia Bernardi

Issue 34 // 27th January 2026

The text argues that migration should be understood not as a linear journey to a destination but as a broader labour regime in which both mobility and enforced immobility generate value, vulnerability and inequality long before arrival or even employment. Read more of the article

Living on the edge: International students, borders and invisible labour in Northern Cyprus

By Aicha Lariani and Seçil Dağtaş

Issue 34 // 27th January 2026

The article shows how international students in Northern Cyprus are embedded in “nested borders” that turn higher education into a survival pathway and a form of invisible, precarious labour for displaced people. Read more of the article

The Modern Slavery Act: 10 years on

By Chris Pesterfield

Issue 33 // 13th October 2025

Ten years on, the UK’s Modern Slavery Act remains a landmark law that raised awareness but failed to meaningfully reduce exploitation, revealing deep tensions between labour rights, immigration policy, and genuine corporate accountability. Read more of the article