In her groundbreaking scholarship on intimacy and economy, Viviana Zelizer coined the
concept of relational work, or efforts in matching social relations with economic transactions …

Retrofitting the UK's housing stock is essential if the UK is to meet its climate commitments.
Wider research has addressed how weaknesses in the drafting and implementation of …

How do digital platforms govern their users? Existing studies, with their focus on impersonal
and procedural modes of governance, have largely neglected to examine the human labor …

Data work—the routinized, information-processing operations that support artificial
intelligence systems—has been portrayed as a source of both economic opportunity and …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young heterosexual middle-class couples living
together in Warsaw and its suburbs, this article explores the role of their homemade …

Synthesizing theory and findings from across neoclassical economics, behavioral
economics, economic sociology, culture and cognition, and neuroscience, I create a dual …

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the number of alternative currencies aiming at transforming
global financial institutions, such as local and complementary currencies (LCC) and …

In uncertain economic times, who are those young adults that show positive expectations
about their economic future? And who are those who worry? Based on previous stratification …

Decarbonisation of residential buildings ('retrofit') is vital if nations are to meet declared net
zero targets. This challenge is especially acute in the UK, which has some of the least …

Economic sociologists have devoted most of their attention to the activities of individuals and
firms in markets. However, recent attempts have pushed for a better understanding of the …