All Outputs (8)

Informalization in gig food delivery in the UK: the case of hyper flexible and precarious work (2022)
Journal Article
Mendonça Cardoso, P., Kougiannou, N. K., & Clark, I. (2023). Informalization in gig food delivery in the UK: the case of hyper flexible and precarious work. Industrial Relations, 62(1), 60-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12320

This article examines the process of informalization of work in platform food delivery work in the UK. Drawing on qualitative data, this article provides new analytical insight into what drives individual formal couriers to both supply and demand inf... Read More about Informalization in gig food delivery in the UK: the case of hyper flexible and precarious work.

Disconnecting labour: the impact of intra-platform algorithmic changes on the labour process and workers’ capacity to organise collectively (2022)
Journal Article
Mendonça, P., & Kougiannou, N. (2023). Disconnecting labour: the impact of intra-platform algorithmic changes on the labour process and workers’ capacity to organise collectively. New Technology, Work and Employment, 38(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12251

This article examines how gig economy platform companies, via algorithmic management, shape working conditions and collective organisation of food delivery couriers. Using qualitative data from one case study operating in a city in the United Kingdom... Read More about Disconnecting labour: the impact of intra-platform algorithmic changes on the labour process and workers’ capacity to organise collectively.

The intensification of work in Europe: A multilevel analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Adăscăliței, D., Heyes, J., & Mendonça, P. (2022). The intensification of work in Europe: A multilevel analysis. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 60(2), 324-347. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12611

Using the most recent two waves of the European Working Conditions Survey (2010 and 2015) in a multilevel setting, the paper argues that national institutions have a significant effect on shifts in work intensity. We find that work has intensified in... Read More about The intensification of work in Europe: A multilevel analysis.

Breaking the Managerial Silencing of Worker Voice in Platform Capitalism: The Rise of a Food Courier Network (2021)
Journal Article
Kougiannou, N. K., & Mendonça, P. (2021). Breaking the Managerial Silencing of Worker Voice in Platform Capitalism: The Rise of a Food Courier Network. British Journal of Management, 32(3), 744-759. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12505

This paper examines food couriers’ utilization of voice mechanisms as mobilization against employer silencing within platform capitalism. The concepts of ‘worker silence’ and ‘worker voice’ are used to facilitate an understanding of the way in which... Read More about Breaking the Managerial Silencing of Worker Voice in Platform Capitalism: The Rise of a Food Courier Network.

Trade union responses to precarious employment: the role of power resources in defending precarious flight attendants in Ryanair (2020)
Journal Article
Mendonça, P. (2020). Trade union responses to precarious employment: the role of power resources in defending precarious flight attendants in Ryanair. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 26(4), 431-445. https://doi.org/10.1177/1024258920944294

Drawing on a case study on the civil airline industry in Portugal, this article addresses the impact of precarious employment on trade union action and examines the conditions under which trade unions defend precarious workers’ interests. Using a pow... Read More about Trade union responses to precarious employment: the role of power resources in defending precarious flight attendants in Ryanair.

Trade Union Power Resources within the Supply Chain: Marketisation, Marginalisation, Mobilisation (2020)
Journal Article
Mendonça, P., & Adăscăliței, D. (2020). Trade Union Power Resources within the Supply Chain: Marketisation, Marginalisation, Mobilisation. Work, Employment and Society, 34(6), 1062-1078. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020906360

This article examines how pressures stemming from the structure and dynamics of supply chains shape employment relations at the workplace level. Using qualitative data from two organisational case studies operating within the same supply chain, it hi... Read More about Trade Union Power Resources within the Supply Chain: Marketisation, Marginalisation, Mobilisation.

Job quality, flexibility and obstacles to collective agency (2018)
Book Chapter
Mendonca, P. (2018). Job quality, flexibility and obstacles to collective agency. In J. Kubisa, & T. Isidorsson (Eds.), Job Quality in an Era of Flexibility: Experiences in a European Context. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203710678

This chapter empirically examines the way job quality is dynamically shaped by the employers and trade unions in a large bottling hall in Scotland. In particular, this chapter analyses how trade unions are able or unable to influence and regulate fle... Read More about Job quality, flexibility and obstacles to collective agency.

Job quality in an era of flexibility (2018)
Book Chapter
Kubisa, J., & Mendonca, P. (2018). Job quality in an era of flexibility. In T. Isidorsson, & J. Kubisa (Eds.), Job Quality in an Era of Flexibility: Experiences in a European Context. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203710678

This chapter introduces the discussions on the relation between job quality and flexibility that spread in European labour markets despite differences in countries’ institutional arrangements. The authors state that organisations currently are under... Read More about Job quality in an era of flexibility.