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Dengler, C. and Lang, M. (2022) 'Commoning Care: Feminist Degrowth Visions for a Socio-Ecological Transformation', Feminist Economics, 28(1), pp. 1–28. Available at:
Federici, S. (2014) Caliban and the witch. Second rev. Brooklyn, New York: Autonomedia.
Federici, S. (2012) Revolution at point zero: housework, reproduction, and feminist struggle. Oakland, CA: PM Press.
Jackson, S. (1992) ‘Towards a historical sociology of housework’, Women’s Studies International Forum [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5395(92)90097-f.
Klotz, M. (2006) ‘Alienation, labor, and sexuality in marx’s 1844 manuscripts’, Rethinking Marxism [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/08935690600748124.
Köhnke, A.-M. (2020) Challenging our Conceptions of Work: Sex Work between Fiction and Reality. Master of Arts. University of Manchester. Available at:
Köhnke, A.-M., Mäki, A.U. and MacGregor, S. (2024) 'Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Ecofeminist Political Economy in Conversation with Degrowth', in L. Eastwood and K. Heron (eds) De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 311–326. Available at:
Littig, B. (2017) 'Good Green Jobs for Whom?', in S. MacGregor (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 318–330. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315886572.
Marx, K. (2010) ‘A Critique of Political Economy Volume I’, English [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/intimm/dxs035.
Mellor, M. (2017) 'Ecofeminist Political Economy: A green and feminist agenda', in S. MacGregor (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 86–100. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315886572.
TRONTO, J.C. (2015) Who Cares? 1st edn. Cornell University Press. Available at:
Velicu, I. and Barca, S. (2020) 'The Just Transition and its work of inequality', Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16(1), pp. 263–273. Available at:
Wheeler, K. and Glucksmann, M. (2015) ‘“It’s kind of saving them a job isn’t it?” The consumption work of household recycling’, Sociological Review [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12199.
Yildirim, T.M. and Eslen-Ziya, H. (2021) 'The differential impact of COVID-19 on the work conditions of women and men academics during the lockdown', Gender, Work & Organization, 28(S1), pp. 243–249. Available at:
Köhnke, A.-M. (2019) Work as Wellbeing: Labour Conditions in Historical Perspective. Bachelor of Arts. University of Manchester. Available at:
Köhnke, A.-M. (2020) 'Behind the curtains: the complex reality of sex work', Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues. Available at:
Köhnke, A.-M. (2020) Challenging our Conceptions of Work: Sex Work between Fiction and Reality. Master of Arts. University of Manchester. Available at:
Köhnke, A.-M. (2021) 'Work and Personality Change What We Do Makes Who We Are, by Ying Wang and Chia-Huei Wu. Bristol University Press, Feb 4, 2021, 152 pp., ISBN: 978–1529207552, Price GBP 32.00.', British Journal of Industrial Relations, 59(4), pp. 1168–1170. Available at:
Köhnke, A.-M. (2022) The other side of the fence: Consumption, activism, and the Owens Park tower occupation, Sustainable Consumption Institute blog. Available at: (Accessed: 17 March 2024).
Köhnke, A.-M., Mäki, A.U. and MacGregor, S. (2024) 'Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Ecofeminist Political Economy in Conversation with Degrowth', in L. Eastwood and K. Heron (eds) De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 311–326. Available at:
Schramme, T. (2013) ‘“I hope that i get old before i die”: Ageing and the concept of disease’, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-013-9256-2.
Veltman, A. (2016) Meaningful Work. New York: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190618179.001.0001.
Eurostat (2009) Harmonised European time use surveys: 2008 Guidelines. (Population and social conditions). Available at:
Kroll, C. (2011) ‘Different Things Make Different People Happy: Examining Social Capital and Subjective Well-Being by Gender and Parental Status’, Social Indicators Research [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-010-9733-1.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1807) Phenomenology of Mind. Available at:
Nathan, P. (2018) 'Wake Up Strong: From Terra Nullius to Recognition', International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 15(2), pp. 103–113. Available at:
Antonio, R.J. and Bonanno, A. (2019) 'From Fordism to Brexit and Trump', in G. Ritzer and W.W. Murphy (eds) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Sociology. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 477–495. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119429333.ch27.
Brown, A. et al. (2007) ‘Job quality and the economics of New Labour: A critical appraisal using subjective survey data’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 31(6), pp. 941–971. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bem028.
LeBaron, G. (2010) ‘The political economy of the household: Neoliberal restructuring, enclosures, and daily life’, Review of International Political Economy [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290903573914.
Brown, A. (2008) ‘A materialist development of some recent contributions to the labour theory of value’, Cambridge Journal of Economics [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bem017.
Clark, J.B. et al. (1898) ‘Karl Marx and the Close of His System: A Criticism.’, Political Science Quarterly [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/2139988.
Rohbeck, J. (2006) Marx. Leipzig: Reclam.
Veblen, T. (1898) ‘The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor’, American Journal of Sociology [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1086/210791.
Furåker, B. and Blomsterberg, M. (2003) 'Attitudes towards the unemployed. An analysis of Swedish survey data', International Journal of Social Welfare, 12(3), pp. 193–203. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2397.t01-1-00005.
Hahn, T. and Schön, G. (1996) ‘Arbeitslosenforschung in den neuen Bundesländern — Stand und Defizite’, in Arbeitslos — chancenlos? Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-91438-5_2.
Smith, S.W. (2003) Labour Economics. 2nd edn. London: Routledge. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203422854.
Stuart, H. (2004) ‘Stigma and work’, HealthcarePapers, 5(2), pp. 100–111. Available at: https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpap..16829.
Weber, B. and Fuchs, J. (2007) 'Verdeckte Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland', Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik, 61(9/10), pp. 43–53. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/26766777.
Döhring, H. (2015) ‘Die Rolle des Staates in der gesellschaftlichen Konzeption des Anarcho-Syndikalismus’, in Den Staat zerschlagen! Available at: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845243962-237.
Döhring, H. (2017) Anarcho-Syndikalismus. Lich: Verlag Edition AV.
Roberts, D.D. (1979) The syndicalist tradition and Italian Fascism. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Smith, A. (2014) 'The Lucas Plan: What can it tell us about democratising technology today?', The Guardian, 22 January. Available at:
Arnold, D.G. (2010) ‘Working Conditions: Safety and Sweatshops’, in The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195307955.003.0022.
Eller, E. (2014) Arbeitszufriedenheit, Motivation und Leistung: Eine empirische Untersuchung in einem großen, deutschen Automobilunternehmen. Veröffentlichungen der Universität. Available at: (Accessed: 26 January 2024).
Kanungo, R.N. and Hartwick, J. (1987) 'An Alternative to the Intrinsic-Extrinsic Dichotomy of Work Rewards', Journal of Management, 13(4), pp. 751–766. Available at:
Mottaz, C.J. (1985) 'The Relative Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Rewards as Determinants of Work Satisfaction', The Sociological Quarterly, 26(3), pp. 365–385. Available at:
Bartky, S.L. (1982) 'Narcissism, Femininity and Alienation', Social Theory and Practice, 8(2), pp. 127–143. Available at: (Accessed: 19 March 2024).
Brownhill, L., Turner, T.E. and Kaara, W. (2012) ‘Degrowth? How about some de-alienation?’, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 31(1), pp. 93–105. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2011.648844.
Carver, T. (1997) 'Translating Marx', Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 22(2), pp. 191–204. Available at: (Accessed: 19 March 2024).
Dupré, J. (2003) Human Nature and the Limits of Science. (Human Nature and the Limits of Science). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/0199248060.001.0001.
Klotz, M. (2006) ‘Alienation, labor, and sexuality in marx’s 1844 manuscripts’, Rethinking Marxism [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/08935690600748124.
Köhnke, A.-M. (2020) Challenging our Conceptions of Work: Sex Work between Fiction and Reality. Master of Arts. University of Manchester. Available at:
Marx, K. (2000) ‘Economic and philosophical manuscripts’, Karl Marx: Selected Writings [Preprint].
Wartenberg, T.E. (1982) '"Species-being" and "human nature" in Marx', Human Studies, 5(1), pp. 77–95. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02127669.
Abelson, J. et al. (2003) 'Deliberations about deliberative methods: issues in the design and evaluation of public participation processes', Social Science & Medicine, 57(2), pp. 239–251. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00343-X.
Button, M. and Mattson, K. (1999) ‘Deliberative democracy in practice: Challenges and prospects for civic deliberation’, Polity [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/3235238.
Evans, R. and Kotchetkova, I. (2009) 'Qualitative research and deliberative methods: promise or peril?', Qualitative Research, 9(5), pp. 625–643. Available at:
Hisschemöller, M. and Cuppen, E. (2015) 'Participatory assessment: tools for empowering, learning and legitimating?', in The Tools of Policy Formulation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 33–51. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477043.00013.
Stern, P.C. (2005) ‘Deliberative methods for understanding environmental systems’, BioScience [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0976:DMFUES]2.0.CO;2.
Brown, K.W. and Ryan, R.M. (2003) ‘The Benefits of Being Present: Mindfulness and Its Role in Psychological Well-Being’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.84.4.822.
Davies, W. (2015) The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being. London: Verso. Available at:
Van Dam, N.T. et al. (2018) ‘Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation’, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617709589.
Jütten, T. (2018) 'Adorno on hope', Philosophy & Social Criticism, 45(3), pp. 284–306. Available at:
Lear, Jonathan. (2006) Radical hope : ethics in the face of cultural devastation. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Nathan, P. (2018) 'Wake Up Strong: From Terra Nullius to Recognition', International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 15(2), pp. 103–113. Available at:
Sherman, N. (2009) 'The fate of a warrior culture', Philosophical Studies, 144(1), pp. 71–80. Available at:
Thompson, A. (2009) 'Radical Hope for Living Well in a Warmer World', Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 23(1), pp. 43–43. Available at:
Williston, B. (2012) 'Climate Change and Radical Hope', Ethics and the Environment, 17(2), pp. 165–186. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2979/ethicsenviro.17.2.165.
Abelson, J. et al. (2003) 'Deliberations about deliberative methods: issues in the design and evaluation of public participation processes', Social Science & Medicine, 57(2), pp. 239–251. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00343-X.
Button, M. and Mattson, K. (1999) ‘Deliberative democracy in practice: Challenges and prospects for civic deliberation’, Polity [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/3235238.
Coutinho, J. (2016) Workplace democracy, well-being and political participation. University of Manchester.
Evans, R. and Kotchetkova, I. (2009) 'Qualitative research and deliberative methods: promise or peril?', Qualitative Research, 9(5), pp. 625–643. Available at:
Gaventa, J. and Martorano, B. (2016) ‘Inequality, Power and Participation – Revisiting the Links’, IDS bulletin, 47(5), pp. 1-. Available at: https://doi.org/10.19088/1968-2016.164.
Goodin, R.E. (2007) ‘Enfranchising All Affected Interests, and Its Alternatives’, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 35(1), pp. 40–68. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1088-4963.2007.00098.x.
Howell, W.G. and Moe, T.M. (2020) Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy. University of Chicago Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226728827.
McCoy, J., Rahman, T. and Somer, M. (2018) 'Polarization and the Global Crisis of Democracy: Common Patterns, Dynamics, and Pernicious Consequences for Democratic Polities', American Behavioral Scientist, 62(1), pp. 16–42. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218759576.
Velicu, I. and Barca, S. (2020) 'The Just Transition and its work of inequality', Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16(1), pp. 263–273. Available at:
Graeber, D. (2011) ‘Consumption’, Current Anthropology [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1086/660166.
Knights, P. (2012) ‘Consumption, Environment and Ethics’.
Köhnke, A.-M. (2022) The other side of the fence: Consumption, activism, and the Owens Park tower occupation, Sustainable Consumption Institute blog. Available at: (Accessed: 17 March 2024).
Köhnke, A.-M., Mäki, A.U. and MacGregor, S. (2024) 'Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Ecofeminist Political Economy in Conversation with Degrowth', in L. Eastwood and K. Heron (eds) De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 311–326. Available at:
O’Neill, J. and Knights, P. (2016) ‘Consumption and well-being’, in The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory.
Schramme, T. (2011) ‘When consumers make environmentally unfriendly choices’, Environmental Politics [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2011.573356.
Wheeler, K. and Glucksmann, M. (2015) Household Recycling and Consumption Work. (Household Recycling and Consumption Work). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440440.
Wheeler, K. and Glucksmann, M. (2015) ‘“It’s kind of saving them a job isn’t it?” The consumption work of household recycling’, Sociological Review [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12199.
Allan, B.A. et al. (2020) ‘Decent and meaningful work: A longitudinal study’, Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(6), pp. 669–679. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000432.
Brown, A., Charlwood, A. and Spencer, D.A. (2012) ‘Not all that it might seem: Why job satisfaction is worth studying despite it being a poor summary measure of job quality’, Work, Employment and Society, 26(6), pp. 1007–1018. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017012461837.
Çağış, Z.G. and Yıldırım, M. (2023) 'Understanding the effect of fear of COVID-19 on COVID-19 burnout and job satisfaction: a mediation model of psychological capital', Psychology, Health & Medicine, 28(1), pp. 279–289. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2022.2077970.
Clark, A.E. (1997) 'Job satisfaction and gender: Why are women so happy at work?', Labour Economics, 4(4), pp. 341–372. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0927-5371(97)00010-9.
Eller, E. (2014) Arbeitszufriedenheit, Motivation und Leistung: Eine empirische Untersuchung in einem großen, deutschen Automobilunternehmen. Veröffentlichungen der Universität. Available at: (Accessed: 26 January 2024).
Katz, R. and Van Maanen, J. (1977) 'The Loci of Work Satisfaction: Job, Interaction, and Policy', Human Relations, 30(5), pp. 469–486. Available at:
Mottaz, C.J. (1985) 'The Relative Importance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Rewards as Determinants of Work Satisfaction', The Sociological Quarterly, 26(3), pp. 365–385. Available at:
Zou, M. (2015) ‘Gender, work orientations and job satisfaction’, Work, Employment and Society [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017014559267.
Buggeln, M. and Wildt, M. (2014) ‘Arbeit im Nationalsozialismus’, in Arbeit im Nationalsozialismus. München: De Gruyter. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783486858846.ix.
Castelli Gattinara, P., Froio, C. and Albanese, M. (2013) ‘The appeal of neo-fascism in times of crisis. the experience of CasaPound Italia’, Fascism, 2(2), pp. 234–258. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00202007.
Golomb, J. and Wistrich, R.S. (2009) Nietzsche, godfather of fascism? On the uses and abuses of a Philosophy. (Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy). Available at: https://doi.org/10.5840/philinquiry2003251/222.
Madley, B. (2005) 'From Africa to Auschwitz: How German South West Africa Incubated Ideas and Methods Adopted and Developed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe', European History Quarterly, 35(3), pp. 429–464. Available at:
McCoy, J., Rahman, T. and Somer, M. (2018) 'Polarization and the Global Crisis of Democracy: Common Patterns, Dynamics, and Pernicious Consequences for Democratic Polities', American Behavioral Scientist, 62(1), pp. 16–42. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764218759576.
Reich, W. (1975) The Mass Psychology of Fascism. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
Roberts, D.D. (1979) The syndicalist tradition and Italian Fascism. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Zimmerer, J. (2024) From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754513.
Atkinson, J.D. (2017) Journey into Social Activism. Fordham University Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1hfr0rk.
Döhring, H. (2015) ‘Die Rolle des Staates in der gesellschaftlichen Konzeption des Anarcho-Syndikalismus’, in Den Staat zerschlagen! Available at: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845243962-237.
Döhring, H. (2017) Anarcho-Syndikalismus. Lich: Verlag Edition AV.
Hain, P. (1986) Political strikes : the state and trade unionism in Britain. London: Viking.
Köhnke, A.-M. (2022) The other side of the fence: Consumption, activism, and the Owens Park tower occupation, Sustainable Consumption Institute blog. Available at: (Accessed: 17 March 2024).
Marx, K. et al. (2012) The Communist Manifesto. (The Communist Manifesto). Available at: https://doi.org/10.7202/1023605ar.
O'Shaughnessy, S. and Kennedy, E.H. (2010) 'Relational Activism: Reimagining Women's Environmental Work as Cultural Change', The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 35(4), pp. 551–572. Available at: (Accessed: 17 March 2024).
Chapman, R. (2023) Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism. London: Pluto Press.
Colasurdo, C. (1997) '"Tell Me a Woman's Story": The Question of Gender in the Construction of Waheenee, Pretty-shield, and Papago Woman', The American Indian Quarterly, 21(3), p. 385. Available at: (Accessed: 27 January 2024).
Kapoor, S. (2018) 'The Search for "Tanner's Blood": Caste and Technical Education in Colonial Uttar Pradesh', Review of Development and Change, 23(2), pp. 118–138. Available at:
Kapoor, S. (2021) 'The violence of odors: sensory politics of caste in a leather tannery', The Senses and Society, 16(2), pp. 164–176. Available at:
Kapoor, S. (2021) 'The Smell of Caste: Leatherwork and Scientific Knowledge in Colonial India', South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 44(5), pp. 983–999. Available at:
Kornberg, D. (2019) 'Garbage as fuel: pursuing incineration to counter stigma in postcolonial urban India', Local Environment, 24(1), pp. 1–17. Available at:
Kornberg, D. (2020) 'Competing for Jurisdiction: Practical Legitimation and the Persistence of Informal Recycling in Urban India', Social Forces, 99(2), pp. 797–819. Available at:
Lasco, G. (2022) Did Margaret Mead Think a Healed Femur Was the Earliest Sign of Civilization?, SAPIENS. Available at: (Accessed: 15 March 2024).
Lear, Jonathan. (2006) Radical hope : ethics in the face of cultural devastation. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Linderman, F.B. (1974) Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Madley, B. (2005) 'From Africa to Auschwitz: How German South West Africa Incubated Ideas and Methods Adopted and Developed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe', European History Quarterly, 35(3), pp. 429–464. Available at:
Maung, H.H. (2019) ‘Ethical problems with ethnic matching in gamete donation’, Journal of Medical Ethics [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-104894.
Mehrotra, I. (2022) Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender: A Study of Rural Dalit Labourers in India. Abingdon / New York. Available at: (Accessed: 2 July 2024).
Mitchell, A. and Chaudhury, A. (2020) 'Worlding beyond "the" "end" of "the world": white apocalyptic visions and BIPOC futurisms', International Relations, 34(3), pp. 309–332. Available at:
Shah, A. et al. (2017) Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India. London: Pluto Press.
Sreenath, S. (2023) '(Un)making the manual scavenger', American Ethnologist, 50(3), pp. 491–505. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13202.
Zimmerer, J. (2024) From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754513.
Köhnke, A.-M. (2019) Work as Wellbeing: Labour Conditions in Historical Perspective. Bachelor of Arts. University of Manchester. Available at:
Köhnke, A.-M. (2020) 'Behind the curtains: the complex reality of sex work', Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues. Available at:
Köhnke, A.-M. (2020) Challenging our Conceptions of Work: Sex Work between Fiction and Reality. Master of Arts. University of Manchester. Available at:
Köhnke, A.-M., Mäki, A.U. and MacGregor, S. (2024) 'Interlocking Crises, Intersectional Visions: Ecofeminist Political Economy in Conversation with Degrowth', in L. Eastwood and K. Heron (eds) De Gruyter Handbook of Degrowth. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 311–326. Available at:
O’Neill, J. (no date) ‘Unfree Labour’.
Radin, M.J. (1996) Contested Commodities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2dgc8d8.
Sanders, T., O'Neill, M. and Pitcher, J. (2009) Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy and Politics. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446220726.
Smith, S.W. (2003) Labour Economics. 2nd edn. London: Routledge. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203422854.
Spencer, D.A. (2008) The political economy of work. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203889978.
Tyler, G. and Terkel, S. (1975) ‘Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They feel about about What They Do.’, Industrial and Labor Relations Review [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/2521464.
Weeks, K. (2016) ‘The problem with work’, in Global Histories of Work. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110437201-012.
Lackey, C. (1994) ‘Social Science Fiction: Writing Sociological Short Stories to Learn about Social Issues’, Teaching Sociology [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/1318562.
Lasco, G. (2022) Did Margaret Mead Think a Healed Femur Was the Earliest Sign of Civilization?, SAPIENS. Available at: (Accessed: 15 March 2024).
Leslie, S.-J. et al. (2015) ‘[NOT USING] Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across acade’, Science [Preprint].
Pannabecker, J.R. (1996) ‘Diderot, Rousseau, and the mechanical arts: disciplines, systems, and social context.’, Journal of Industrial Teacher Education [Preprint].
Roberts, R., Bergström, S. and La Rooy, D. (2007) ‘Commentary: UK students and sex work: Current knowledge and research issues’, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.908.
Roberts, R., Jones, A. and Sanders, T. (2013) ‘Students and sex work in the UK: providers and purchasers’, Sex Education [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2012.744304.
Sagar, T. et al. (2016) ‘Student involvement in the UK sex industry: motivations and experiences’, British Journal of Sociology [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12216.
Yildirim, T.M. and Eslen-Ziya, H. (2021) 'The differential impact of COVID-19 on the work conditions of women and men academics during the lockdown', Gender, Work & Organization, 28(S1), pp. 243–249. Available at:
Boal, A. (1979) Theatre of the oppressed. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203891315-30.
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