Bakan, Joel; Chatzidakis, Andreas and Littler, Jo, eds. 2026. The Moralizing Corporation: The rise and fall of corporate carewashing. Bristol: Bristol University Press. ISBN 9281529251180
Book Section
Littler, Jo and Chatzidakis, Andreas. 2026. From carewashing to care-stripping: corporate branding and the commodification of care in an era of authoritarian capitalism. In: Joel Bakan; Andreas Chatzidakis and Jo Littler, eds. The Moralizing Corporation: The rise and fall of corporate carewashing. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 27-42. ISBN 9281529251180
Curran-Troop, Hannah; Gill, Rosalind and Littler, Jo. 2022. 鈥淪tay Woke. Make Moves鈥 Branding for a Feminist Future Amidst Pandemic Precarity. In: Joel Gwynne, ed. The Cultural Politics of Femvertising: Selling Empowerment. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 141-162.
Littler, Jo. 2020. Neoliberal meritocracy, racialization and transnationalism. In: Eva Ulrike Pirker; Katja Hericks and Mandisa Mbali, eds. Forward, Upward, Onward? Narratives of Achievement in African and Afroeuropean Contexts. D眉sseldorf: hhu books, pp. 17-20. ISBN 9783942412025
Ehrstein, Yvonne; Gill, Rosalind and Littler, Jo. 2019. The Affective Life of Neoliberalism: Constructing (Un)Reasonableness on Mumsnet. In: Simon Dawes and Marc Lenormand, eds. Neoliberalism in Context: Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-213. ISBN 9783030260163
Sandoval, Marisol and Littler, Jo. 2019. Creative hubs: a co-operative space? In: Rosalind Gill; Andy C. Pratt and Tarek E. Virani, eds. Creative Hubs in Question: Place, Space and Work in the Creative Economy. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 155-168. ISBN 9783030106522
Wiliamson, Milly and Littler, Jo. 2017. Rich TV. Poor TV: Work, Leisure and the Construction of "Deserved Inequality" in Contemporary Britain. In: June Deery and Andrea Press, eds. Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 146-161. ISBN 9781315387970
Littler, Jo. 2017. Ideology. In: Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray, eds. Keywords for Media Studies. New York: New York University Press, pp. 98-101. ISBN 9781479883653
Littler, Jo. 2016. On not being at CCCS. In: Kieran Connell and Matthew Hilton, eds. Cultural Studies 50 Years On: History, Practice and Politics. London: Rowman and Littlefield International, pp. 275-284. ISBN 9781783483921
Littler, Jo. 2016. Cultural Studies and Consumer Culture. In: Deirdre Shaw; Andreas Chatzidakis and Michal Carrington, eds. Ethics and Morality in Consumption: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Routledge, pp. 233-247. ISBN 9781138790230
Couldry, Nick and Littler, Jo. 2008. The Work of Work: Reality TV and the Negotiation of Neoliberal Labour in "The Apprentice". In: Thomas Austin and Wilma De Jong, eds. Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives and Practices. Maidenhead: Open University Press, pp. 258-267. ISBN 9780335221929
Littler, Jo. 2007. Celebrity CEOs and the cultural economy of tabloid intimacy. In: Sean Redmond and Su Holmes, eds. Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader. London: SAGE Publications, pp. 230-243. ISBN 9781412923200
Littler, Jo. 2006. 'Festering Britain': the 1951 Festival of Britain, decolonisation and the representation of the Commonwealth. In: Simon Faulkner and Anandi Ramamurthy, eds. Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 21-42. ISBN 9780754640028
Littler, Jo. 2005. British heritage and the legacies of 鈥榬ace鈥. In: Jo Littler and Roshi Naidoo, eds. The Politics of Heritage: the legacies of 鈥榬ace鈥. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9780415322102
Littler, Jo and Naidoo, Roshi. 2004. White past, multicultural present: heritage and national stories. In: Helen Brocklehurst and Robert Phillips, eds. History, Nationhood and the Question of Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 330-341. ISBN 9781403912961
Article
Littler, Jo and Skeggs, Bev. 2026. Social mobility is a joke: Working-class women and British TV comedy on 鈥榯he social floor鈥. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 29(5), pp. 917-934. ISSN 1367-5494
Littler, Jo. 2026. Working with EJCS for a decade. European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-5494
Littler, Jo and Saha, Anamik. 2025. Preface: Space Invaders Revisited. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(5), pp. 1203-1204. ISSN 1367-5494
Wood, Helen and Littler, Jo. 2025. Contributions, conjunctures and care: revisiting Formations of Class and Gender. The Sociological Review, 73(2), pp. 344-361. ISSN 0038-0261
Littler, Jo. 2025. Model minority authoritarianism: Social mobility and the new anti-equality agenda. South Atlantic Quarterly, 124(1), pp. 57-76. ISSN 0038-2876
Littler, Jo. 2025. The university: caring community or carewashing central? Autosociobiographical reflections. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 57(3), pp. 235-247. ISSN 0013-1857
Littler, Jo. 2024. The female entrepreneur: Fragments of a genealogy. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(3), pp. 498-508. ISSN 1367-5494
Curran-Troop, Hannah; Gill, Rosalind and Littler, Jo. 2024. What is 鈥榝reelance feminism鈥? European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(3), pp. 317-332. ISSN 1367-5494
Chatzidakis, Andreas and Littler, Jo. 2022. An anatomy of carewashing: corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(2-3), pp. 268-286. ISSN 1367-8779
Littler, Jo. 2022. Levelling down: roundtable on Boris Johnson. Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, 30(2), pp. 28-30. ISSN 0968-252X
Casey, Emma and Littler, Jo. 2022. Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework: Scouring away the crisis? The Sociological Review, 70(3), pp. 489-505. ISSN 2754-1371
Littler, Jo and McRobbie, Angela. 2022. Beyond anti-welfarism and feminist social media mud-slinging: Jo Littler interviews Angela McRobbie. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(1), pp. 327-334. ISSN 1367-5494
Littler, Jo and Rottenberg, Catherine. 2021. Feminist solidarities: theoretical and practical complexities. Gender, Work & Organization, 28(3), pp. 864-877. ISSN 0968-6673
Moran, Marie and Littler, Jo. 2020. Cultural populism in new populist times. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(6), pp. 857-873. ISSN 1367-5494
Littler, Jo. 2020. Mothers behaving badly: chaotic hedonism and the crisis of neoliberal social reproduction. Cultural Studies, 34(4), pp. 499-520. ISSN 0950-2386
Chatzidakis, Andreas; Hakim, Jamie; Littler, Jo; Rottenberg, Catherine and Segal, Lynne. 2020. From carewashing to radical care: the discursive explosions of care during Covid-19. Feminist Media Studies, 20(6), pp. 889-895. ISSN 1468-0777
Littler, Jo. 2019. Fortunes of Feminism: Act Four. Rassegnia Italiana di Sociologia, 60(4), pp. 845-849. ISSN 0486-0349
Littler, Jo. 2019. Normcore plutocrats in gold elevators: Reading the Trump Tower Photographs. Cultural Politics, 15(1), pp. 15-28. ISSN 1743-2197
Littler, Jo. 2018. Young and old meritocracy: from radical critique to neoliberal tool. Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy, 26(1), pp. 40-51. ISSN 0968-5211
Goodman, Michael K.; Littler, Jo; Brockington, Dan and Boykoff, Maxwell. 2016. Spectacular Environmentalisms: Media, Knowledge and the Framing of Ecological Politics. Environmental Communication, 10(6), pp. 677-688. ISSN 1752-4032
Littler, Jo and Winch, Alison. 2016. 鈥楻oundtable: An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies?鈥 with Rosalind Gill, Hannah Hamad, Mariam Kauser, Diane Negra and Nayomi Roshini. Feminist Media Studies, 16(4), pp. 726-736. ISSN 1468-0777
Winch, Alison; Littler, Jo and Keller, Jessalynn. 2016. Why 鈥渋ntergenerational feminist media studies鈥? Feminist Media Studies, 16(4), pp. 557-572. ISSN 1468-0777
Littler, Jo and Winch, Alison. 2016. Feminism and childcare: A roundtable with Sara de Benedictis, Gideon Burrows, Tracey Jensen, Jill Rutter and Victoria Showunmi. Studies in the Maternal, 8(1), 2. ISSN 1759-0434
Littler, Jo. 2015. The New Victorians? Celebrity charity and the demise of the welfare state. Celebrity Studies, 6(4), pp. 471-485. ISSN 1939-2397
Littler, Jo. 2013. Meritocracy as plutocracy: the marketising of 鈥榚quality鈥 under neoliberalism. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics(80-81), pp. 52-72. ISSN 0950-2378
Littler, Jo. 2013. The Rise of the 鈥淵ummy Mummy鈥: Popular Conservatism and the Neoliberal Maternal in Contemporary British Culture. Communication, Culture & Critique, 6(2), pp. 227-243. ISSN 1753-9129
Moor, Liz and Littler, Jo. 2008. Fourth Worlds and neo-Fordism: American Apparel and the cultural economy of consumer anxiety. Cultural Studies, 22(5), pp. 700-723. ISSN 0950-2386
Conference or Workshop Item
Williamson, Milly and Littler, Jo. 2018. '鈥楻ich TV/Poor TV鈥: Work, leisure and the construction of 鈥榙eserved inequality鈥'. In: 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association: Voices. Prague, Czech Republic 24 - 28 May 2018.
