Pathologies of Work

Theme: Pathologies of Work

Agadullina, Elena R; Terskova, Maria A; Erokhina, Daria A; Ankushev, Vladislav V

"Factors in workers' dehumanization: Multiple stigmatization, social status, and workers' sex" (2022)

Araújo, Alfredina dos Santos; Bacelar, Luiz Fernando Lira

"The value of work in the age of artificial intelligence: Meaning, social contribution, and recognition amid productive dehumanization" (2025)

Arefin, Md Shamsul; Islam, Md Rakibul; Hossen, Mohammad Awal

"Effect of organizational dehumanization on work procrastination behavior: the role of work alienation and mindfulness" (2026)

Bailey, Catherine; Madden, Adrian; Alfes, Kerstin; Shantz, Amanda; Soane, Emma

"The Mismanaged Soul: Existential Labor and the Erosion of Meaningful Work" (2017)

Bal, Matthijs; Brookes, Andy; Hack-Polay, Dieu; Kordowicz, Maria; Mendy, John

"From hypernormalization of workplace inequality to dehumanization: A way out for human resource management" (2023)

Beuck, Karen; Schmid, Henning; Alizadeh, Armin; Benlian, Alexander

"Hybrid algorithmic management: Workers’ perceptions of trust, competence and dehumanization" (2025)

Braverman, Harry

Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1998)

Brison, Noémie; Caesens, Gaëtane

"The relationship between workplace ostracism and organizational dehumanization: The role of need to belong and its outcomes" (2023)

Bunting, Madeleine

Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture Is Ruling Our Lives (2011)

Burawoy, Michael

Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism (1982)

Caesens, Gaëtane; Brison, Noémie; Hamel, Jean-Félix; Demoulin, Stéphanie

"The impact of algorithmic resume screening on applicants’ perceptions: the role of organisational dehumanisation" (2026)

Chapman, Jamie J; Cottingham, Marci D

"Animals, robots, numbers, and monsters: Dehumanization spillover in prison work" (2025)

Chen, Yuanyi; Ferris, D Lance; Kwan, Ho Kwong; Yan, Ming; Zhou, Mingjian; Hong, Ying

"Self-love's lost labor: A self-enhancement model of workplace incivility" (2013)

Clot, Yves

Le travail à cœur: pour en finir avec les risques psychosociaux (2015)

Cohen, Josh

Not Working: Why We Have to Stop (2019)

Dejours, Christophe

Souffrances en France. La banalisation de l'injustice sociale (2015)

Dejours, Christophe; Gernet, Isabelle

Psychopathologie du travail (2012)

Deranty, Jean-Philippe

"Work and the experience of domination in contemporary neoliberalism" (2011)

Dinerstein, Ana C; Neary, Michael

The Labour Debate: An Investigation into the Theory and Reality of Capitalist Work (2002)

Dinerstein, Ana Cecilia; Pitts, Frederick Harry

"Productivist Mandates" (2021)

Dobson, Kyle; Schweitzer, Shane; Hardin, Ashley Elizabeth; Ruttan, Rachel Lise; Schroeder, Juliana; Workman, Kristina Marie; Zhao, Xuan

"Exploring dehumanization and humanization in organizational contexts" (2019)

Falino, Fabio; Perasso, Giulia

"Restoring worker subjectivity: Rethinking dehumanization and the crisis of HR" (2026)

Fischbach, Franck

Gibson, Cristina B; Groves, Kevin S; Margolis, Jaclyn; Lusk, Carol; Sakamoto, Kevin

"The crisis of dignity at work: Dehumanization during digital transformation, societal upheaval, and workforce uncertainty" (2025)

Gini, Al

"Working Ourselves to Death: Workaholism, Stress, and Fatigue" (1998)

Haber, Stéphane

Ham, Julie; Ceradoy, Aaron

"“God blessed me with employers who don't starve their helpers”: Food insecurity and dehumanization in domestic work" (2021)

Hochschild, Arlie Russell

The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work (2003)

Illich, Ivan

Disabling Professions (1977)

Jaeggi, Rahel

"Pathologies of Work" (2017)

Joullié, Jean-Etienne; Gould, Anthony M; Muldoon, Jeffrey

"Organisational dehumanisation: Authoritativeness as remedy" (2026)

Kim, T J; von dem Knesebeck, O

"Perceived job insecurity, unemployment and depressive symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies" (2016)

Kornhauser, Arthur W

Mental Health of the Industrial Worker: A Detroit Study (1975)

Leidner, Robin

"Rethinking questions of control: Lessons from McDonald’s" (1996)

Linhart, Robert

The Assembly Line (1981)

Niedhammer, Isabelle; Coutrot, Thomas; Geoffroy-Perez, Béatrice; Chastang, Jean-François

"Shift and Night Work and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: Prospective Results From the STRESSJEM Study" (2022)

Niedhammer, Isabelle; Lesuffleur, Thomas; Coutrot, Thomas; Chastang, Jean-François

"Contribution of working conditions to occupational inequalities in depressive symptoms: results from the national French SUMER survey" (2016)

Niedhammer, Isabelle; Milner, Allison; Coutrot, Thomas; Geoffroy-Perez, Béatrice; LaMontagne, Anthony D; Chastang, Jean-François

"Psychosocial Work Factors of the Job Strain Model and All-Cause Mortality: The STRESSJEM Prospective Cohort Study" (2021)

Niedhammer, Isabelle; Milner, Allison; Geoffroy-Perez, Béatrice; Coutrot, Thomas; LaMontagne, Anthony D; Chastang, Jean-François

"Psychosocial work exposures of the job strain model and cardiovascular mortality in France: results from the STRESSJEM prospective study" (2020)

Paracha, Usman Kaleem; Dr. Syed Tahir Hussain Rizvi

"The silent exit: Dehumanization, self-esteem, and the rise of withdrawal at work" (2025)

Rader, Victoria

"Solidarity on the job: Resisting dehumanization and fighting for democracy in the diverse workplace" (2008)

Rosa, Hartmut

Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity (2013)

Ross, Andrew

No-collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs (2003)

Roupa, Aikaterini; Patelarou, Athina; Giakoumidakis, Konstantinos; Fousiani, Kyriaki; Miliaraki, Marianna; Patelarou, Evridiki

"Demographics, personality traits, work conditions and dehumanization levels: A large-scale study among healthcare professionals" (2026)

Sahadevan, Ganeshdev

"The invisible workers: A preliminary research on workplace ostracism and organisational dehumanisation under the influence of self dehumanisation" (2025)

Sarwar, Aisha; Khan, Jabran; Muhammad, Lakhi; Mubarak, Namra; Jaafar, Mastura

"Relationship between organisational dehumanization and nurses' deviant behaviours: A moderated mediation model" (2021)

Schultz, Mario; Clegg, Melanie; Hofstetter, Reto; Seele, Peter

"Managing dehumanization? A technology and ethics account on the future of work and consumption" (2022)

Shaiwalini, Shipra

"From autonomy to alienation: Exploring organisational dehumanisation among ride-hailing drivers" (2026)

Shalla, Vivian; Clement, Wallace

Work in Tumultuous Times: Critical Perspectives (2007)

Tabarani, Patricia; Cardador, Teresa; Lagios, Constantin; Restubog, Simon Lloyd D; Diab, Jasmin

"Threatened identity and diminished adjustment: The effect of work-related dehumanization on refugees" (2025)

Terskova, Maria A; Agadullina, Elena R

"Dehumanization of dirty workers and attitudes toward social support" (2019)

Thottathil, Shilpa Chingan; Dhal, Manoranjan; Verma, Kapil

"Unraveling the phenomenon of losing humanness at workplace: A review and synthesis of dehumanization research in work context" (2026)

Turkkan Zencirli, Burcin; Altin, Mehmet

"The impact of artificial intelligence on workplace dehumanization: a critical review" (2025)

Valtorta, Roberta Rosa; Baldissarri, Cristina; Andrighetto, Luca; Volpato, Chiara

"Dirty jobs and dehumanization of workers" (2019)

Wajcman, Judy; Rose, Emily

"Constant Connectivity: Rethinking Interruptions at Work" (2011)

Xu, Tao; Zheng, Yu-Hao; Zhang, Jinhua; Wang, Zixuan

"“They” threaten my work: How AI service robots negatively impact frontline hotel employees through organizational dehumanization" (2025)

Yang, Shiyu; Zhang, Jinghao; Schweitzer, Shane; De Cremer, David; Strachan, Mac; Baer, Markus; Cao, Jiyin; Ganti, Manjari; Lagios, Constantin; Tabarani, Patricia; Wang, Lintao; Garrett, Lyndon Earl; Ginena, Karim

"Unmasking workplace dehumanization: Emerging directions and insights" (2025)

Yu, Lu; Ito, Aï; Nguyen, Hai-Dang; Nguyen, Hai-Dang; Li, Pingshu; Flinchbaugh, Carol; Khoreva, Violetta; Nguyen, Nathan; Stinglhamber, Florence; Thomas, Jérémy; Caesens, Gaëtane; Geng, Yue; Wei, Qi; Liang, Guangsheng; Ren, Hong; Kougiannou, Nadia K

"Humanity lost and found: Workplace dehumanization in the age of algorithms and AI" (2026)

Zheng, Xinnian; Zheng, Lixun; Fang, Yingqiong; Hewlin, Patricia Faison; Wang, Hongli

"Leaders’ human–robot comparison behavior and subordinate counterproductive work behavior: Insights from dehumanization theory" (2025)

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