This article explores the intersection of branding, identity and control. It develops the notion
of identity-incentive branding and links research on the collective-associative construction of …

The paper investigates how learning and processes of becoming are shaped and enacted in
retail apprenticeship in Norway. The analysis draws upon a qualitative study of managers …

This study aims to offer a more fine-grained approach to our understanding of the
relationship between job stress and job satisfaction. Building on organisational theory and …

This article argues that the characterization of 'extreme jobs' as being defined by the
constancy of 'extreme work'obscures the significance of temporary episodes of 'extreme …

What constitutes meaningful work in contexts associated with routines and low-skill work,
such as grocery stores? And how do workers contribute to making their work meaningful in …

The article examines the ways students in the school-based part of the vocational education
and training (VET) in Sales begin to make sense of the world of work they are about to enter …

This chapter addresses the problem of trade union responses to the precarization of work in
the retail sector in Estonia, Poland, and Slovenia. The retail sector is an example of a low …

This article calls attention to the difficulty of institutionalising vocational education and
training (VET) in the service sector in Norway, despite the growing importance of this sector …

This article investigates an example of variance from the Varieties of Capitalism literature in
the case of a longstanding partnership between a major British food retail multinational …

Robert Putnam's books Making Democracy Work (1993) and Bowling Alone (2000) have
been influential in promoting the relevance of networks and norms of civic engagement …