Author

Sean O’Brady

Observed names: O'Brady S, O'Brady, Sean, O'brady, Sean, Sean O'Brady, Sean O'brady

Institution: McMaster University

Observed institutions: Cornell University, Université de Montréal, McMaster University

ORCID: 0000-0002-4803-407X

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-4803-407X

OpenAlex ID: A5036544503

Fighting precarious work with institutional power: Union inclusion and its limits across spheres of action

2021 · Sean O'Brady · British Journal of Industrial Relations · 58

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Negotiating limits on algorithmic management in digitalised services: cases from Germany and Norway

2022 · Virginia Doellgast, Ines Wagner, et al. · Transfer European Review of Labour and Research · 57

Collective Voice and Worker Well‐being: Union Influence on Performance Monitoring and Emotional Exhaustion in Call Centers

2021 · Sean O’Brady, Virginia Doellgast · Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society · 27

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Reforming private drug coverage in Canada: Inefficient drug benefit design and the barriers to change in unionized settings

2014 · Sean O’Brady, Marc-André Gagnon, et al. · Health Policy · 13

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Rethinking precariousness and its evolution: A four-country study of work in food retail

2018 · Sean O’Brady · European Journal of Industrial Relations · 11

Academic Capitalism and Precarity in the Neoliberal University: Job Insecurity and Stress in Two Liberal Market Economies

2025 · Sean O'Brady, Greg J. Bamber, et al. · Industrial Relations Journal · 10

The high costs of outsourcing: Vendor errors, customer mistreatment, and well‐being in call centers

2023 · Sean O'Brady, Virginia Doellgast, et al. · Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society · 9

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Worker Voice and Mutual Gains From Remote Performance Management: Evidence From Digitalized Services in North America and Germany

2025 · Sean O'Brady, Virginia Doellgast, et al. · Human Resource Management Journal · 8

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Control and Insecurity in Australian and Canadian Universities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2022 · David Peetz, Sean O’Brady, et al. · Relations industrielles · 8

Institutional power resources

2024 · Sean O'Brady · Routledge eBooks · 7

Partnering against Insecurity? A Comparison of Markets, Institutions and Worker Risk in Canadian and Swedish Retail

2019 · Sean O'Brady · British Journal of Industrial Relations · 7

Making Call Center Jobs Better: The Relationship between Management Practices and Worker Stress

2020 · Doellgast V, O'Brady S · eCommons (Cornell University) · 5

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Theorising the Impacts of Polycrisis on Employment Relations: Complexity and Diversity at a Global Scale

2026 · Tony Dobbins, Fang Lee Cooke, et al. · British Journal of Industrial Relations · 3

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Spatial Control, Precarity, and Union Resistance in Digital Remote Work: An Analysis of ‘Work From Home’ in US and Canadian Call Centres

2026 · Virginia Doellgast, Sean O’Brady, et al. · Work Employment and Society · 3

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Contested Automation: Double Indeterminacy, Union Power, and Job Quality in Call Centers

2026 · Sean O’Brady, Jeonghun Kim · Work and Occupations

The Current Upsurge in Worker Organizing and Activism: Flash in the Pan or Transformational Moment

2023 · Thomas A. Kochan, John Ahlquist, et al. · Academy of Management Proceedings

A Living wage for Tompkins County? Tompkins County Living Wage Working Group Feasibility Study

2023 · Eaglesham, Reed, Greer, Ian, et al. · eCommons (Cornell University)

Book Review: Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs , by Leah F. Vosko

2022 · Sean O’Brady · Industrial and Labor Relations Review

La Suède montre l'exemple dans la création de bons emplois dans le secteur de la vente au détail

2021 · Sean O'Brady

What Canada can learn from Sweden about creating middle-class retail jobs

2021 · Sean O'Brady

Working from home during COVID-19: What do employees really want?

2020 · Johanna Weststar, David Peetz, et al.

Negotiating insecurity? : a comparative study of collective bargaining in retail food in Canada, Germany, Sweden and the United States

2018 · O'Brady, Sean

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Raymond L Hogler, The End of American Labor Unions: The Right-to-Work Movement and the Erosion of Collective Bargaining

2016 · Sean O’Brady · Journal of Industrial Relations

The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It by David Weil, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014, 424 pages. ISBN: 978-0674725447.

2014 · Sean O’Brady · Relations industrielles

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Works count: 26

Citation count: 229

H-index: 8

I10-index: 6