Work and Occupations
Get a broad perspective on the dynamics of the workplace and examine international approaches to work-related issues in this respected journal. Work and Occupations offers distinguished scholarship with an interdisciplinary perspective.
Work and Occupations publishes original contributions in a wide range of work areas, addressing such topics as:
- emotion, work, and labor
- gender and race relations
- globalization and work
- immigrant and migrant workers
- internal labor markets
- labor force trends
- labor-management relations
- labor movement revitalization
- networks in careers and workplaces
- occupational safety and health
- organizational careers
- organizational culture
- socialization processes
- transitions between work, home, unemployment, and school
- violence in the workplace
- work and family
- work attitudes and behaviors
- worker cultures
- workplace diversity
- work group dynamics
- working in later life
For over 30 years, Work and Occupations has published rigorous social science research on the human dynamics of the workplace, employment, and society from an international, interdisciplinary perspective. Work and Occupations provides a broad perspective on the workplace, examining international approaches to work-related issues as well as insights from scholars in a variety of fields, including anthropology, demography, education, government administration, history, industrial relations, labor economics, management, psychology, and sociology. In addition to regular features including research notes, review essays, and book reviews, each issue of Work and Occupations is an outlet for original contributions in a wide range of areas associated with work, addressing such topics as: emotion, work, and labor; employee involvement; gender and race relations; globalization and work; immigrant and migrant workers; internal labor markets; labor force trends; labor-management relations; labor markets and careers; labor movement revitalization; managing workplace diversity; networks in careers and workplaces; occupations and professions; occupational health and safety; organizational careers; organizational culture; socialization processes; transitions between work, home, unemployment, and school; violence in the workplace; work and family; work attitudes and behaviors; worker cultures; work group dynamics; worker productivity; working in later life; workplace conflict; and workplace organization.
| Daniel B. Cornfield | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Matthew Tarizzo | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Meagan Rainock | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Savannah C. Bastian | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Katherine Beekman | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Kaelee Belletto | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Chancey Herbolsheimer | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Adam K. Schoenbachler | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Zhe Zhang | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Bruce Barry | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Michael Burawoy | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Reginald A. Byron | Southwestern University |
| Jorge Carrillo | El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico |
| Emilio J. Castilla | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Jonathan S. Coley | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Timothy J. Dowd | Emory University, USA |
| Cynthia Fuchs Epstein | City University of New York, USA |
| Enrique Fernández-Macías | Eurofound, Ireland |
| Alexandre Frenette | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Markus Gangl | University of Frankfurt, Germany |
| Lena Hipp | WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany |
| Doo-Seung Hong | Seoul National University, South Korea |
| Hande Inanc | Mathematica, USA |
| Larry Isaac | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Sanford M. Jacoby | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Arne Kalleberg | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| Tali Kristal | University of Haifa |
| Anne-Kathrin Kronberg | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
| Quan D. Mai | Rutgers University, USA |
| Ray Marshall | University of Texas, Austin, USA |
| Joshua Murray | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Richard E. Ocejo | CUNY Graduate Center and John Jay College |
| Jennifer L. Nelson | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA |
| Barbara F. Reskin | University of Washington, USA |
| Jeffery J. Sallaz | University of Arizona, USA |
| Benjamin Shestakofsky | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Rachel Skaggs | Ohio State University, USA |
| Lijun Song | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Enrique de la Garza Toledo | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico |
| Margarita Torre Fernandez | University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain |
| Steven Vallas | Northeastern University, USA |
| Christine L. Williams | University of Texas-Austin, USA |
| Alford A. Young Jr. | University of Michigan, USA |
Manuscript Submission Now Offered Via Work & Occupation’s Sagetrack Site
Work and Occupations: An International Sociological Journal (WO) publishes sociological and social scientific research on work, occupations, employment, and labor themes. Articles promote new theoretical insights in contemporary scholarly discourse and inform policymaking.
Content: Submissions should critically engage relevant scholarly research, with, if appropriate for the topic, an emphasis on contemporary scholarly discourse. Prospective authors should consult recent issues of the journal for the level of academic rigor, critical engagement of contemporary scholarship, and format and style of published articles.
Book Reviews: Each of our reviews is assigned by commission to a reviewer with expertise in the subject area, theoretical framework, and/or methodological approach of the book. Work and Occupations does not accept unsolicited book reviews. Unsolicited book reviews submitted by email or to the Sage Manuscript Central platform will not be considered for publication.
Manuscript Format: Articles should be typewritten double-spaced with footnotes, references, tables, and charts on separate pages and should be accompanied by an abstract of less than 100 words and 4-5 keywords, as well as a 50-word biographical paragraph describing each author’s current affiliation, research interests, and recent publications. Follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th edition) for journal style.
Manuscript Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted online at the Sagetrack website http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wox. New authors should use the “Create Account: New users click here” button at the submission website. After entering the website, go to the “Corresponding Author Center” to submit manuscripts, using the “Click here to submit a new manuscript” button. At the completion of the upload of each file, a confirmation window will appear asking for a description of the file (for the main document, use language such as “article text” or “main document”; for figures, indicate a figure number, such as “Figure 1”; and for other supporting materials, indicate clearly what the file is).
Submission of a manuscript implies commitment to publish in the journal. Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal should not simultaneously submit them to another journal, nor should manuscripts have been published elsewhere in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content.
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ORCID
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Preprints
Work and Occupations: An International Sociological Journal (WO) may accept submissions of papers that have been posted on pre-print servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the journal's author archiving policy.
If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.
Visit the Sage Journals and Preprints page for more details about preprints.
Sage Choice
If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to nonsubscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in Sage Choice, subject to payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let Sage know directly if you are choosing Sage Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit Sage Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at Sage, including self author archiving deposits (green open access) visit Sage Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.