Working Papers
Parent: Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
eScholarship stats: History by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | 2026-09 | 2026-08 | 2026-07 | 2026-06 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0jm096mm | Why Do Robots Rebel? The Labor History of a Cultural Icon | 634 | 203 | 228 | 119 | 84 |
| 7nh039h1 | The Stigma of Unemployment: When joblessness leads to being jobless | 441 | 117 | 159 | 58 | 107 |
| 2037d9f7 | Raw Encounters: Chinese Managers, African Workers and the Politics of Casualization in Africa’s Chinese Enclaves | 366 | 100 | 158 | 57 | 51 |
| 5qz0x0wh | Compensation for Compulsory Land Acquisition in China: to Rebuild Expropriated Farmers’ Long-Term Livelihoods | 350 | 205 | 73 | 26 | 46 |
| 66s1j4n4 | Employment at Will versus Just Cause Dismissal: Applying the Due Process Model of Procedural Justice | 350 | 74 | 95 | 36 | 145 |
| 5fj1n4f8 | Government-led Vocational Training System and its Lessons: In case of South Korea before the IMF Economic Crisis | 290 | 39 | 98 | 30 | 123 |
| 8rn2h9ch | Economic Crisis and the Logistics Industry: Financial Insecurity for Warehouse Workers in the Inland Empire | 275 | 56 | 154 | 29 | 36 |
| 0ck918nv | Development, Disparity, and Colonial Shocks: Do Endowments Matter? | 260 | 80 | 96 | 32 | 52 |
| 6w6062g2 | Moving towards Decent Work. Labour in the Lula government: reflections on recent Brazilian experience | 260 | 52 | 125 | 30 | 53 |
| 6bb807jq | Finance and Labor: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy | 247 | 120 | 80 | 28 | 19 |
| 8727p3gd | Does “sheep” bring the bad luck? The impacts of education resources on education attainment and earnings in China | 212 | 65 | 83 | 13 | 51 |
| 8b9364pm | Temporary Agency Jobs in Japan: Bad Employment Contracts or Bad Employment Relationships? | 207 | 39 | 62 | 17 | 89 |
| 4pf948h2 | Is an Alternative Globalization Possible? | 192 | 38 | 81 | 45 | 28 |
| 20p3h64t | Diversity is in the Eye of the Beholder: How Majority and Minority Group Members Define Diversity | 185 | 35 | 61 | 25 | 64 |
| 6k91m7mk | America’s biggest low-wage industry: Continuity and change in retail jobs | 178 | 62 | 81 | 18 | 17 |
| 5xz8p7bk | The Effects of Human Resource Development on Operational and Financial Performance of Manufacturing Companies: A Large-Scale, Longitudinal Analysis | 173 | 58 | 62 | 22 | 31 |
| 1wj7c2tb | The Decline in the Standard Employment Contract: Evidence from Ten Advanced Industrial Countries | 164 | 46 | 53 | 31 | 34 |
| 5n091465 | Exploring the Effects of Right-to-Work Laws on Private Wages | 161 | 47 | 60 | 26 | 28 |
| 1wj2t7cs | What Property Tax Limitations Do to Local Finances: A Meta-Analysis | 142 | 38 | 49 | 17 | 38 |
| 7k66f0jn | Fear and Mistrust: The Relationship Among Japanese American Farmers, Organized Labor, and Future Generations | 139 | 54 | 43 | 13 | 29 |
| 7bd4j4tr | Change and Continuity in Labor Relations in Mexico at the Beginning of the 21st Century | 138 | 23 | 30 | 20 | 65 |
| 42q1792z | Matters Settled but Not Resolved: Worker Misclassification in the Rideshare Sector | 136 | 25 | 51 | 23 | 37 |
| 0hx0126r | 'Making Visible the Invisible': A Glimpse into the History, Evolution and Current Dynamics of Domestic Work Relationships in Sudan | 135 | 30 | 55 | 19 | 31 |
| 33g1508j | Building Strategic Capacity: the political underpinnings of coordinated wage bargaining | 135 | 46 | 63 | 14 | 12 |
| 9r68v14v | Workforce Diversity in Manufacturing Companies and Organizational Performance: The Role of Status-Relatedness and Internal Processes | 134 | 31 | 48 | 16 | 39 |
| 2bt5m91g | ON THE PERSISTENCE OF LABOR MARKET INSECURITY AND SLOW GROWTH IN THE US: Reckoning with the Waltonist Growth Regime | 128 | 26 | 74 | 13 | 15 |
| 0m96d1fm | Beyond the Dreamer Narrative – Undocumented Youth Organizing Against Criminalization and Deportations in California | 127 | 43 | 30 | 22 | 32 |
| 7wk5m8rz | Public Preschooling and Maternal Labor Force Participation in Rural India. | 127 | 49 | 36 | 14 | 28 |
| 53b6q84v | Radicalism in the Ethnic Market- The Jewish Bakers Union of Los Angeles in the 1920s | 126 | 41 | 40 | 18 | 27 |
| 5q75j2cc | The Disruption of Taxi and Limousine Markets by Digital Platform Corporations in Western Europe and the United States: Responses of Business Associations, Labor Unions, and Other Interest Groups | 124 | 42 | 38 | 9 | 35 |
| 9b21q5qd | Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History | 115 | 30 | 38 | 23 | 24 |
| 6w3620jj | The Future of Labor and Employment Law in the United States | 110 | 45 | 31 | 9 | 25 |
| 14r1s460 | Transformative Planning for Community Development | 104 | 33 | 39 | 14 | 18 |
| 4p63p7ts | Pakistan's Beveridge Curve- an Exploration of Structural Unemployment | 104 | 15 | 26 | 32 | 31 |
| 2d15z31p | Stirring the Pot and Adding Some Spice: Workers Education at the University of California, 1921-1962 | 103 | 39 | 18 | 11 | 35 |
| 4nq4s392 | Participatory planning in a rural Mexican village: Lessons for community development and planning education | 100 | 35 | 32 | 7 | 26 |
| 3dg9877r | Trabajo Cognitivo y Control Sobre el Proceso de Trabajo: La Producción de Software | 97 | 24 | 19 | 8 | 46 |
| 6tw7575x | Day Labor Worker Centers: New Approaches to Protecting Labor Standards in the Informal Economy | 97 | 40 | 37 | 11 | 9 |
| 06s2s5jr | Mexican Immigrants in an Unequal America: Starting out at the bottom, moving ahead? | 96 | 24 | 36 | 17 | 19 |
| 4cw578fp | What Property Tax Limitations Do to Local Finances: A Meta-Analysis | 96 | 19 | 25 | 21 | 31 |
| 7n26h25r | The Prospects for Social Business in Peri-Urban Water Supply: Employment and Household Welfare Impacts of the Grameen Veolia Venture | 95 | 28 | 42 | 7 | 18 |
| 3h22r900 | Unbalanced Economic Growth and Uneven National Income Distribution: Evidence from China | 93 | 24 | 28 | 14 | 27 |
| 0xk780xv | Employment Patterns among Women: A Comparative Study of Rural Malawi and Rural Pakistan | 92 | 21 | 50 | 9 | 12 |
| 3xm5f2nj | An Introduction to the “Gloves-off” Economy | 91 | 31 | 21 | 16 | 23 |
| 2tj127tb | The Idea and Practice of Contract in U.S. Employment Relations: Analysis and Policy Implications | 90 | 35 | 30 | 8 | 17 |
| 4rv06108 | Domestic and International Causes for the Rise of Pay Inequality: Post Industrialism, Globalization and Labor Market Institutions | 90 | 38 | 35 | 8 | 9 |
| 3fs5129s | JOB QUALITY AND INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS OF COMPETITION IN POSTFORDIST CAPITALISM | 89 | 27 | 25 | 11 | 26 |
| 3pk220mn | Land Use Rights, Market Transition, and Rural-urban Labor Migration in China (1980-84) | 89 | 46 | 22 | 5 | 16 |
| 9sw3w9bd | Social Networks and Labor Market Entry Barriers: Understanding Inter-industrial Wage Differentials in Urban China | 87 | 13 | 40 | 12 | 22 |
| 5610g83k | Resolving Ideological Conflicts by Affirming Opponents’ Status: The Tea Party, Obamacare and the 2013 government shutdown | 85 | 35 | 19 | 6 | 25 |
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