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Woodcock, Jamie (2021). [Book Review] Marcelo Hoffman (2019) Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Politics Struggles. The Global Labour Journal, 12(1) pp. 65–67.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2020). Game Workers Unite: unionization among independent developers. In: Ruffino, Paolo ed. Independent Videogames: Cultures, Networks, Techniques And Politics. Abingdon: Routledge.

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Aslam, Yaseen and Woodcock, Jamie (2020). A History of Uber Organizing in the UK. South Atlantic Quarterly, 119(2) pp. 412–421.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2020). Reflecting on a call centre workers’ inquiry. Contradictions, tensions, and the role of the researcher. Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa / The Italian Journal of Ethnography and Qualitative Research, 13(1) pp. 103–118.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2020). Organizing in the Game Industry: The Story of Game Workers Unite U.K. New Labor Forum, 29(1) pp. 50–57.

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Englert, Sai; Woodcock, Jamie and Cant, Callum (2020). Digital Workerism: Technology, Platforms, and the Circulation of Workers’ Struggles. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 18(1) pp. 132–145.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2020). How to Beat the Boss: Game Workers Unite in the UK. Capital and Class (Early Access).

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Cant, Callum and Woodcock, Jamie (2020). Fast Food Shutdown: From disorganisation to action in the service sector. Capital and Class (Early Access).

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Ruffino, Paolo and Woodcock, Jamie (2020). Game Workers and the Empire: Unionisation in the UK Video Game Industry. Games and Culture (Early Access).

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Hammar, Emil Lundedal and Woodcock, Jamie (2019). The Political Economy of Wargames: The Production of History and Memory in Military Video Games. In: Hammond, Philip and Pötzsch, Holger eds. War Games: Memory, Militarism and the Subject of Play. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 54–71.

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Woodcock, Jamie and Johnson, Mark R. (2019). The Affective Labor and Performance of Live Streaming on Twitch.tv. Television & New Media, 20(8) pp. 813–823.

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Woodcock, Jamie and Graham, Mark (2019). The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge: Polity.

Johnson, Mark R. and Woodcock, Jamie (2019). “And Today’s Top Donator is”: How Live Streamers on Twitch.tv Monetize and Gamify Their Broadcasts. Social Media + Society, 5(4)

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Badger, Adam and Woodcock, Jamie (2019). Ethnographic Methods with Limited Access: Assessing Quality of Work in Hard to Reach Jobs. In: Wheatley, Daniel ed. Handbook of research methods on the quality of working lives. Handbooks of Research Methods in Management. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 135–146.

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Johnson, Mark R and Woodcock, Jamie (2019). The impacts of live streaming and Twitch.tv on the video game industry. Media, Culture & Society, 41(5) pp. 670–688.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2019). Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle. Haymarket Books.

Woodcock, Jamie (2019). Understanding affective labour: the demand for workers to really care. In: Frayne, David ed. The Work Cure: Critical Essays on Work and Wellness. Monmouth: PCCS Books, pp. 61–74.

Woodcock, Jamie and Johnson, Mark R. (2019). Live Streamers on Twitch.tv as Social Media Influencers: Chances and Challenges for Strategic Communication. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 13(4) pp. 321–335.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2019). The trajectory of the 2010 student movement in the UK: from student activism to strikes. In: Choudry, Aziz and Vally, Salim eds. The University and Social Justice Struggles Across the Globe. London: Pluto, pp. 25–40.

Cox, Joe; Oh, Eun Young; Simmons, Brooke; Graham, Gary; Greenhill, Anita; Lintott, Chris; Masters, Karen and Woodcock, Jamie (2018). Doing Good Online: The Changing Relationships Between Motivations, Activity, and Retention Among Online Volunteers. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(5) pp. 1031–1056.

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Woodcock, Jamie and Johnson, Mark R. (2018). Gamification: What it is, and how to fight it. The Sociological Review, 66(3) pp. 542–558.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2018). Digital Labour and Workers’ Organisation. In: Atzeni, Mauricio and Ness, Immanuel eds. Global Perspectives on Workers' and Labour Organizations. Work, Organization, and Employment. Work, Organization, and Employment. Singapore: Springer, pp. 157–173.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2018). Changes in Employment: The Role of the State and Its Reconfiguration in the Liberalisation of Employment Policies. In: Stewart, Paul and Fedyuk, Olena eds. Inclusion and Exclusion in Europe: Migration, Work and Employment Perspectives. London: ECPR Press, pp. 17–34.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2018). Digital Labour in the University: Understanding the Transformations of Academic Work in the UK. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 16(1) pp. 129–142.

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Graham, Mark and Woodcock, Jamie (2018). Towards a Fairer Platform Economy: Introducing the Fairwork Foundation. Alternate Routes, 29 pp. 242–253.

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Woodcock, Jamie; Greenhill, Anita; Holmes, Kate; Graham, Gary; Cox, Joe; Oh, Eun Young and Masters, Karen (2017). Crowdsourcing Citizen Science: Exploring the Tensions Between Paid Professionals and Users. Journal of Peer Production(10)

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Johnson, Mark R. and Woodcock, Jamie (2017). Fighting games and Go: Exploring the aesthetics of play in professional gaming. Thesis Eleven, 138(1) pp. 26–45.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2017). Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres. Wildcat. London: Pluto Press.

Johnson, Mark R. and Woodcock, Jamie (2017). ‘It’s like the gold rush’: the lives and careers of professional video game streamers on Twitch.tv. Information, Communication & Society, 22(3) pp. 336–351.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2016). The work of play: Marx and the video games industry in the United Kingdom. Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 8(2) pp. 131–143.

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Greenhill, Anita; Holmes, Kate; Woodcock, Jamie; Lintott, Chris; Simmons, Brooke D.; Graham, Gary; Cox, Joe; Oh, Eun Young and Masters, Karen (2016). Playing with science: Exploring how game activity motivates users participation on an online citizen science platform. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 68(3) pp. 306–325.

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Toscano, Alberto and Woodcock, Jamie (2015). Spectres of Marxism: A Comment on Mike Savage's Market Model of Class Difference. The Sociological Review, 63(2) pp. 512–523.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2014). The workers’ inquiry from Trotskyism to Operaismo: A political methodology for investigating the workplace. Ephemera: theory & politics in organizations, 14(3) pp. 493–513.

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Woodcock, Jamie (2014). Precarious workers in London: New forms of organisation and the city. City, 18(6) pp. 776–788.

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