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Overview

Chris Warhurst is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Health Professions, with a significant focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration, Demography, and Health.

The core topics addressed in their work include Employment and Welfare Studies, Workplace Health and Well-being, Labor Movements and Unions, Retirement, Disability, and Employment, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, and Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality.

Warhurst's recent publications highlight contributions to understanding workplace quality of life and the interaction between digital transformations and employment. Selected recent papers include:

  • "A Conceptual Framework for Workforce Skills for Industry 5.0: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice" (2024) published in the Journal of Innovation Management
  • "Humanizing work in the digital age: Lessons from socio-technical systems and quality of working life initiatives" (2022) published in Human Relations
  • "Manifesto for a new Quality of Working Life" (2020) published in Human Relations
  • "Measuring the impact of AI on jobs at the organization level: Lessons from a survey of UK business leaders" (2021) published in Research Policy
  • "Decent work, inclusion and sustainability: a new era lies ahead" (2021) published in the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Warhurst include Rebeka Balogh, Sylvie Gadeyne, Christophe Vanroelen, Chris Mathieu, and Angela Knox.

Their body of work is published across several venues, notably Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), European Journal of Workplace Innovation, Human Relations, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, and Work Employment and Society.

Best Publications

  • The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization

    Anne M. Witz;Chris Warhurst;Dennis P. Nickson

  • Employee experience of aesthetic labour in retail and hospitality

    Chris Warhurst;Dennis Nickson

  • Aesthetic Labour in Interactive Service Work: Some Case Study Evidence from the ‘New’ Glasgow

    Chris Warhurst;Dennis Nickson;Anne Witz;Anne Marie Cullen

  • The importance of attitude and appearance in the service encounter in retail and hospitality

    Dennis Nickson;Chris Warhurst;Eli Dutton

  • Ignorant theories and knowledgeable workers: interrogating the connections between knowledge, skills and services

    Paul Thompson;Chris Warhurst;George Callaghan

  • 'Who's Got the Look?' Emotional, Aesthetic and Sexualized Labour in Interactive Services

    Chris Warhurst;Dennis Nickson

  • Workplaces of the Future

    Paul Thompson;Chris Warhurst

  • Introduction: What work? What life? What balance?: Critical reflections on the work‐life balance debate

    Doris Ruth Eikhof;Chris Warhurst;Axel Haunschild

  • Hands, Hearts and Minds: Changing Work and Workers at the End of the Century

    Chris Warhurst;Paul Thompson

  • The promised land? Why social inequalities are systemic in the creative industries

    Doris Ruth Eikhof;Christopher Warhurst

  • Creative Labour: Working in the Creative Industries

    P. Thompson;M. Jones;C. Warhurst;Alan McKinlay

  • Soft skills and employability: Evidence from UK retail:

    Dennis Nickson;Chris Warhurst;Johanna Commander;Scott A Hurrell

  • Bringing in the Excluded? Aesthetic labour, skills and training in the 'new' economy

    Dennis Nickson;Chris Warhurst;Anne Marie Cullen;Allan Watt

  • What's Happening to Skill?

    I. Grugulis;C. Warhurst;E. Keep

  • The challenge of job quality

    Patricia Findlay;Arne L. Kalleberg;Christopher Warhurst

  • The Skills That Matter

    I. Grugulis;E. Keep;C. Warhurst

  • A new labour aristocracy? aesthetic labour and routine interactive service

    Christopher Warhurst;Dennis Nickson

  • Aesthetic Labour

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  • Lookism: The New Frontier of Employment Discrimination?:

    Chris Warhurst;Dianne van den Broek;Richard Hall;Dennis Nickson

  • Mapping knowledge in work: proxies or practices?:

    Chris Warhurst;Paul Thompson

  • From conception to consumption: creativity and the missing managerial link

    Paul Thompson;Michael Jones;Chris Warhurst

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Anne E. Green
Anne E. Green University of Birmingham
Damian Grimshaw
Damian Grimshaw King's College London
Phil Taylor
Phil Taylor University of Strathclyde
Alan Brown
Alan Brown Harvard University
Arne L. Kalleberg
Arne L. Kalleberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Melanie Walker
Melanie Walker University of the Free State
Duncan Gallie
Duncan Gallie University of Oxford
Andy Furlong
Andy Furlong University of Glasgow

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