Author

Mathew Johnson

Observed names: Johnson, Mathew, Johnson, Mathew., Johnson, Mathew; id_orcid 0000-0003-1773-6391, Mat Johnson

Institution: University of Manchester

Observed institution: University of Manchester

ORCID: 0000-0003-1773-6391

Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-1773-6391

OpenAlex ID: A5083374090

Challenges and Contradictions in the ‘Normalising’ of Precarious Work

2018 · Jill Rubery, Damian Grimshaw, et al. · Work Employment and Society · 305

Tackling Precarious Work in Public Supply Chains: A Comparison of Local Government Procurement Policies in Denmark, Germany and the UK

2018 · Karen Jaehrling, Mathew Johnson, et al. · Work Employment and Society · 73

Unions and precarious work: How power resources shape diverse strategies and outcomes

2023 · Arjan Keizer, Mat Johnson, et al. · European Journal of Industrial Relations · 36

Raising the bar? The impact of the UNISON ethical care campaign in UK domiciliary care

2021 · Mathew Johnson, Jill Rubery, et al. · Transfer European Review of Labour and Research · 34

The Living Wage in the UK: testing the limits of soft regulation?

2019 · Mathew Johnson, Aristea Koukiadaki, et al. · Transfer European Review of Labour and Research · 31

Implementing the living wage in UK local government

2017 · Mathew Johnson · Employee Relations · 31

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Swimming against the tide? Street-level bureaucrats and the limits to inclusive active labour market programmes in the UK

2021 · Mathew Johnson, Miguel Martínez Lucio, et al. · Human Relations · 28

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‘Digital Tournaments’: the colonisation of freelancers’ ‘free’ time and unpaid labour in the online platform economy

2023 · Valeria Pulignano, Stefania Marino, et al. · Cambridge Journal of Economics · 16

Doing the right thing? An institutional perspective on responsible restructuring in UK local government

2021 · Mathew Johnson, Laura Watt · Human Resource Management Journal · 15

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Towards more disorganised decentralisation? Collective bargaining in the public sector under pay restraint

2017 · Damian Grimshaw, Mat Johnson, et al. · Industrial Relations Journal · 13

City regions and decent work: Politics, pluralism and policy making in Greater Manchester

2022 · Mathew Johnson, Miguel Martínez Lucio, et al. · Environment and Planning C Politics and Space · 12

Moving In and Out of the Shadow of European Case Law: the Dynamics of Public Procurement in the Post‐Post‐Rüffert Era

2020 · Bjarke Refslund, Karen Jaehrling, et al. · JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies · 12

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Public sector employment relations after the crisis: A comparative case study analysis of UK local authorities

2019 · Mathew Johnson, Jill Rubery, et al. · Economic and Industrial Democracy · 10

Out with the old, in with the new? Institutional experimentation and decent work in the UK

2024 · Mathew Johnson, Eva Herman · Economic and Industrial Democracy · 8

Civil society organisations in and against the state: Advice, advocacy and activism on the margins of the labour market

2023 · Stephen Mustchin, Mathew Johnson, et al. · Industrial Relations Journal · 8

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Co-produced or co-opted? Reflections on the “movement” to promote good employment in Greater Manchester

2022 · Mathew Johnson, Eva Herman, et al. · Employee Relations · 8

Sustainable HRM in the Public Sector: A Question of Viability or Legitimacy?

2026 · Mathew Johnson, Stephen Mustchin, et al. · Human Resource Management Journal · 5

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Minimum wages and the multiple functions of wages

2021 · Jill Rubery, Mathew Johnson, et al. · Routledge eBooks · 5

Leveraging power resources for a decent minimum wage

2024 · Damian Grimshaw, Mat Johnson · Routledge eBooks · 4

EDITORIAL

2021 · Mathew Johnson, Valeria Pulignano · Transfer European Review of Labour and Research · 4

Closing the Gender Pay Gap:What Role for Trade Unions?

2019 · Rubery, Jill., Johnson, Mathew. · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 4

HRM in crisis

2018 · Jill Rubery, Mathew Johnson · Routledge eBooks · 4

Moving beyond the business case: the real living wage in the UK care sector

2025 · Eva Herman, Mathew Johnson · Personnel Review · 3

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Building Legitimacy in the UK Platform Economy: Representative Strategies of Independent and Mainstream Trade Unions

2026 · Mathew Johnson, Morgan Rhys Powell, et al. · Industrial Relations Journal · 2

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Platform Capital and the City: Governing Uber in Buenos Aires and Manchester

2025 · Mathew Johnson, Angel Martin-Caballero · Comparative labor law & policy journal · 1

Works count: 53

Citation count: 675

H-index: 12

I10-index: 13