Alex J. Wood

Alex J. Wood

University of Birmingham

H-index: 20

Europe-United Kingdom

About Alex J. Wood

Alex J. Wood, With an exceptional h-index of 20 and a recent h-index of 19 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Birmingham, specializes in the field of Economic Sociology, Job Quality, Platforms, Gig Economy, Algorithmic (AI) Management.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

What do platform workers in the UK gig economy want?

Consent, Control, and Contradictions in the Post-Fordist Work Organisation

Dynamics of contention in the gig economy: Rage against the platform, customer or state?

Gig Rights & Gig Wrongs Initial Findings from the Gig Rights Project: Labour Rights, Co-Determination, Collectivism and Job Quality in the UK Gig Economy

Book Review: Organisational Misbehaviour

Platforms disrupting reputation: precarity and recognition struggles in the remote gig economy

DATA (IN) JUSTICE, PROTEST AND THE (RE) MAKING OF SPACE AMONG FRAGMENTED PLATFORM WORKERS

How anger sparks voice: exploring individual and collective voice in the remote gig economy

Alex J. Wood Information

University

Position

Economic Sociologist

Citations(all)

3467

Citations(since 2020)

3272

Cited By

1040

hIndex(all)

20

hIndex(since 2020)

19

i10Index(all)

24

i10Index(since 2020)

23

Email

University Profile Page

University of Birmingham

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Alex J. Wood Skills & Research Interests

Economic Sociology

Job Quality

Platforms

Gig Economy

Algorithmic (AI) Management

Top articles of Alex J. Wood

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

What do platform workers in the UK gig economy want?

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Nicholas Martindale

Alex J Wood

Brendan J Burchell

2024/3/7

Consent, Control, and Contradictions in the Post-Fordist Work Organisation

Alex J Wood

2024/3

Dynamics of contention in the gig economy: Rage against the platform, customer or state?

New Technology, Work and Employment

Alex J Wood

Nicholas Martindale

Vili Lehdonvirta

2023/7

Gig Rights & Gig Wrongs Initial Findings from the Gig Rights Project: Labour Rights, Co-Determination, Collectivism and Job Quality in the UK Gig Economy

Co-Determination, Collectivism and Job Quality in the UK Gig Economy (May 11, 2023)

Alex Wood

Nicholas Martindale

Brendan Burchell

2023/5/11

Book Review: Organisational Misbehaviour

Alex J Wood

2023/4/23

Platforms disrupting reputation: precarity and recognition struggles in the remote gig economy

Sociology

Alex J Wood

Vili Lehdonvirta

2023/10

DATA (IN) JUSTICE, PROTEST AND THE (RE) MAKING OF SPACE AMONG FRAGMENTED PLATFORM WORKERS

Alex J Wood

Vili Lehdonvirta

2022

How anger sparks voice: exploring individual and collective voice in the remote gig economy

Alex J Wood

Nick Martindale

Vili Lehdonvirta

2022/10/11

Book Review: Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, by Deepa Das Acevedo

Alex Wood

2022/3

Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs

Work, Employment and Society

Magdalena Soffia

Alex J Wood

Brendan Burchell

2022/10

Algorithmic Management: Consequences for Work Organisation and Working Conditions

AJ Wood

2021/5/5

The uneven potential of online platform work for human development at the global margins

Mark Graham

Vili Lehdonvirta

Alex J Wood

Helena Barnard

Isis Hjorth

...

2021/10/12

Antagonism beyond employment: how the ‘subordinated agency’of labour platforms generates conflict in the remote gig economy

Socio-Economic Review

Alex J Wood

Vili Lehdonvirta

2021/10

Workplace regimes: a sociological defence and elaboration

Work in the Global Economy

Alex J Wood

2021/10/1

Author Meets Critics

Sarah Stitzlein

2020

Beyond mobilisation at McDonald’s: Towards networked organising

Capital & Class

Alex J Wood

2020/12

Despotism on demand: How power operates in the flexible workplace

Alex J Wood

2020/5/15

4 Minimum wages for online labor platforms?

The Digital Transformation of Labor

Alex J Wood

Mark Graham

Mohammad Amir Anwar

2020

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Co-Authors

H-index: 60
Mark Graham, Professor of Internet Geography

Mark Graham, Professor of Internet Geography

University of Oxford

H-index: 43
Vili Lehdonvirta

Vili Lehdonvirta

University of Oxford

H-index: 41
Professor Brendan Burchell

Professor Brendan Burchell

University of Cambridge

H-index: 31
Adam P. Coutts

Adam P. Coutts

University of Cambridge

H-index: 22
Brian Harney

Brian Harney

Dublin City University

H-index: 14
Colm McLaughlin

Colm McLaughlin

University College Dublin

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