Publications

Latest publications

Johnson, M. and Martin-Caballero, A. (2025) "Platform Capital and the City: Governing Uber in Buenos Aires and Manchester," Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal: Vol. 45: Iss. 1, Article 11.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cllpj/vol45/iss1/11

Pulignano, V., Johnson, M., & Marino, S. (2025). ‘Trapped in reviews’: the role of ratings and response times in shaping work allocation and time management among platform freelancers. In Research Handbook on Decent Work in a Post-COVID-19 World (pp. 115-130). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882751.00014

Tilly, C., Rani, U., Johnson, M., Taksa, L., & Pulignano, V. (2024). A Book Review Forum on The Politics of Unpaid Labour. ILR Review, 78(1), 255. https://doi.org/10.1177/00197939241284990

Grimshaw, D., & Johnson, M. (2024). Leveraging power resources for a decent minimum wage. In Workers, Power and Society (pp. 176-201). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003431022

Keizer, A., Johnson, M., Larsen, T. P., Refslund, B., & Grimshaw, D. (2024). Unions and precarious work: How power resources shape diverse strategies and outcomes. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 30(4), 383-402. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596801231162517

Valeria Pulignano, Stefania Marino, Mathew Johnson, Markieta Domecka, Me-Linh Riemann (2024) ‘Digital Tournaments’: the colonisation of freelancers’ ‘free’ time and unpaid labour in the online platform economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 48, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 133–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bead042

Johnson, M., & Herman, E. (2024). Out with the old, in with the new? Institutional experimentation and decent work in the UK. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X231220528

Johnson, M., Herman, E. and Hughes, C. (2023), "Co-produced or co-opted? Reflections on the “movement” to promote good employment in Greater Manchester", Employee Relations, Vol. 45 No. 4, pp. 857-869. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-01-2022-0042


Blog posts

Platform capital and the city briefing

By Mat Johnson and Angel Martin-Cabellero

Platform capital and the City brief final

Employing a fairer system – improving the labour market for vulnerable groups

By Mat Johnson, Jill Rubery and Eva Herman

Employing a fairer system – improving the labour market for vulnerable groups

UK minimum wage to rise – here’s how it could really tackle the cost of living and inequality

By Mat Johnson and Damian Grimshaw

UK minimum wage to rise – here’s how it could really tackle the cost of living and inequality (theconversation.com)

Forget about the future, what about the now of work?

By Mat Johnson and Eva Herman

Working futures

The people who care for and educate our children deserve better pay - here’s why that would help us all

By Mat Johnson and Eva Herman

The people who care for and educate our children deserve better pay - here's why that would help us all (theconversation.com)

It’s all about the money! Making a living as a platform driver in Greater Manchester

By Mat Johnson and Eva Herman

Platform workers in Manchester