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NIGHT WORK: by J. Carpentier and P. Cazamian INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS–ATEXT BOOK: by M. P. Jackson RULE-MAKING AND INDUSTRIAL PEACE: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY; by J. F. B. Goodman, E.GA. Armstrong, J. E. Davis and A. Wagner GRIEVANCE ARBITRATION: A PRACTICAL GUIDE: International Labour Office THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: by J. McConville The Development of Industrial Relation Systems: Some Implications of Japanese experience.     

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Book reviews in this article: EUROPEAN INSIGHTS: MANPOWER Edited by Barrie O. Pettman, WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS: DOCUMENTS ON TRADE UNIONS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN BRITAIN SINCE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY J. T. Ward and W. Hamish Fraser (eds.), INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE NHS—THE SEARCH FOR A SYSTEM Nick Bosanquet(ed.), STRIKES IN BRITAIN C. T. B. Smith, Richard Clifton, Peter Makeham, S. W. Creigh and R. V. Burn, MORE BAD NEWS Glasgow University Media Group, Routledge and Kegan Paul MANAGING AND DEVELOPING NEW FORMS OF WORK ORGANISATION G. Kanawaty (ed.), NEW FORMS OF WORK ORGANISATION 1 NEW FORMS OF WORK ORGANISATION 2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: THE FIREMEN N. F. Dufty,     

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OCCASIONAL PAPERS IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DEVELOPING EMPLOYEE RELATIONS by Peter Warr, Stephen Fineman, Nigel Nicholson and Roy Payne A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF A MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Attitudinal responses to participative management by Dietrich L. Schaupp POWER, INNOVATION AND PROBLEM-SOLVING IN PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT by Karen Legge A PARTICIPATIVE APPROACH TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN F. H. M. Blackler and A. A. Brown JOB REDESIGN AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL: STUDIES IN BRITISH LEYLAND AND VOLVO by David Pace and John Hunter DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN ACTION: THE NEW BUREAUCRACY By Enid Mumford and Don Henshall THE CASE FOR WORKERS CO-OPS by Robert Oakeshott Routledge and Kegan Paul SOCIALISM AND SHOP FLOOR POWER by Alan Fox Fabian CONFLICT AND DEMOCRACY Studies in Trade Union Government by John Hemingway     

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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS G. S. Bain and G. B. Woolven CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Arthur Marsh Gower Press TRADE UNION HANDBOOK Arthur Marsh Gower Press THE WORKING CLASS IN THE LABOUR MARKET R. M. Blackburn and Michael Mann MacMillan THE CONTROL OF WORK J. Purcell and R. Smith (eds.) Macmillan THE CODETERMINATION MOVEMENT IN THE WEST S. Pejovich (ed.) Lexington Books MANAGEMENT UNIONISATION IN WESTERN EUROPE by the European Association for Personnel Management Institute of Personnel Management     

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Book Reviewed in This Article: LABOUR RELATIONS IN ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES: ISSUES AND PROBLEMS Edited by B. Martin and E. M. Kassalow STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISE IN THE WESTERN ECONOMIES Edited by R. Vernon and Y. Aharoni, Croom Helm THE LAST COLONY: BUT WHOSE? H. A. Turner, et al. AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS D. Plowman, S. Deery, C. EUROPEAN LABOR RELATIONS: TEXTS & CASES Thomas Kennedy     

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Book reviews in this article: LABOUR IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: The Migration of Workers in the United Kingdom and the European Community by W. R. Böhning LABOUR IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: Labor Movements in the Common Market Countries by Marguerite Bouvard LABOUR IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: Employment Conditions in Europe by Margaret Stewart TRANSNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Proceedings of a Symposium held at Geneva by the International Institute for Labour Studies by Hans Günter MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND BRITISH LABOUR: REVIEW OF ATTITUDES AND RESPONSES by John Gennard INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT—A COMPARATIVE LEGAL SURVEY by B. Aaron and K. W. Wedderburn WORKERS PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT IN BRITAIN by R. O. Clarke, D. J. Fatchett and B. C. Roberts DO TRADE UNIONS CAUSE INFLATION? by D. Jackson, H. A. Turner and F. Wilkinson HANDBOOK OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS by D. Torrington ORGANISATIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE by Cyril Sofer THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WORK by Michael Argyle     

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WAGE RESTRAINT BY CONSENSUS: BRITAIN'S SEARCH FOR AN INCOMES POLICY AGREEMENT, 1965–79 Warren H. Fishbein CONSENT AND EFFICIENCY: LABOUR RELATIONS AND MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE ENTERPRISE E. Batstone, A. Ferner and M. Terry INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY AT SEA Edited by Robert Schrank PARTICIPATION AND INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: THE SHOPFLOOR VIEW Paul Rathkey SOLVING COSTLY ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICTS R. Blake and J. Mouton     

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Book reviews in this article: GROUP PROCESS AND PRODUCTIVITY: by Ivan D. Steiner WILL THORNE: CONSTRUCTIVE MILITANT: A study in New Unionism and New Politics by Giles and Lisanne Radice INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: The Key Skills by Ed. Coker and Geoffrey Stuttard (Eds). INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: The Organized Worker: by Tony Topham. INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: The Activist's Handbook: by Bob Houlton. INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: Statistics for Bargainers: by Karl Hedderwick INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: Calculating: by Joyce Bill Hutton. JESSE BOOT OF BOOTS THE CHEMISTS: by Stanley Chapman TRAINING IN INDUSTRY: THE MANAGEMENT OF LEARNING: by Bernard M. Bass and James A. Vaughan. ORGANISATION DESIGN: An analytical approach to the structuring of organisation by Derek Newman. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE WORKER-OWNED FIRM: A study of twenty-one plywood companies in the Pacific Northwest by Carl J. Bellas. SOCIOLOGY and INDUSTRIAL LIFE: by J. E. T. Eldridge. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Attitudes to Price Increases and Pay Claims by H. Behrend. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Management and Unions - the theory and reform of industrial relations: by A. Flanders. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Coming to Terms with Trade Unions - Six case studies in Collective Bargaining Strategy: by W. E. J. McCarthy A. S. Collier. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Managers and Shop Stewards - shop floor revolution: by A. I. Marsh. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Manpower and Pay in Retail Distribution: Distributive Trades E.D.C., National Economic Development Office BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Collective Agreements - a guide to their Drafting: by J. C. Ramsey in association with J. M. Hill. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Socialising the Company by D. R. Allan. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: The new Unionism - the case for Workers Control by K. Coates and T. Topham.     

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Book reviewed in this article: GROUP PROCESS AND PRODUCTIVITY by Ivan D. Steiner WILL THORNE: CONSTRUCTIVE MILITANT: A study in New Unionism and New Politics by Giles and Lisanne Radice INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: The Key Skills by Ed. Coker and Geoffrey Stuttard (Eds) The Organized Worker by Tony Topham The Activist's Handbook by Bob Houlton Statistics for Bargainers by Karl Hedderwick Calculating by Joyce and Bill Hutton JESSE BOOT OF BOOTS THE CHEMISTS by Stanley Chapman TRAINING IN INDUSTRY: THE MANAGEMENT OF LEARNING by Bernard M. Bass and James A. Vaughan ORGANISATION DESIGN: An analytical approach to the structuring of organisation by Derek Newman INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE WORKER-OWNED FIRM: A study of twenty-one plywood companies in the Pacific Northwest by Carl J. Bellas SOCIOLOGY and INDUSTRIAL LIFE by J. E. T. Eldridge BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Attitudes to Price Increases and Pay Claims by H. Behrend Management and Unions - the theory and reform of industrial relations by A. Flanders Coming to Terms with Trade Unions - Six case studies in Collective Bargaining Strategy by W. E. J. McCarthy and A. S. Collier Managers and Shop Stewards - shop floor revolution by A. I. Marsh Manpower and Pay in Retail Distribution: Distributive Trades E.D.C., National Economic Development Office Collective Agreements - a guide to their Drafting by J. C. Ramsey in association with J. M. Hill INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Socialising the Company by D. R. Allan The new Unionism - the case for Workers Control by K. Coates and T. Topham REGISTER OF CURRENT RESEARCH Compiled by Brian Towers LABOUR RELATIONS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC THE BRITISH SYSTEM OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS     

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Book reviews in this article: UNEMPLOYMENT: CAUSE AND CURE Patrick Minford BRITAIN CAN WORK Ian Gilmour THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: WORKER RESISTANCE IN THE WORKPLACE P. K. Edwards and Hugh Scullion MANAGING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Mick Marchington MANAGERS IN FOCUS: THE BRITISH MANAGER IN THE EARLY 1980s Michael Poole THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LABOUR PROCESS IN CAPITALIST SOCIETIES Craig R. Littler THE MODERNIZATION OF SOVIET INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT William J. Conyngham THE SOCIALIST CORPORATION AND TECHNOCRATIC POWER Jean Woodhall     

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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: THE BOARDROOM VIEWPOINT By George Bull, in collaboration with Peter Hobday and John Hamway THE MANAGEMENT OF LEARNING by Ivor K. Davies LABOUR COURTS AND GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT IN WESTERN EUROPE edited by Benjamin Aaron STRIKES: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY edited by R. E. Frow and M. Katanka THE USE OF ECONOMICS LITERATURE edited by J. Fletcher ESSAYS IN ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT by Sir Alec Cairncross     

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PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: A Guide to Manpower Planning: A. M. Bowey PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: The Personnel Management Process—human resources administration (3rd ed.): W. French PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Personnel Management and Organisation Development: fields in transition: W. L. French D. Hellriegel. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Planning for Human Resources: L. Margerison D. Ashton (ed.) PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Organisation of Management Development Programmes: D. S. Markwell T. J. Roberts. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Personnel Management in Hospitals: G. Millard. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Personnel Planning and Occupational Choice: S. Timperley. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Problems and Policies in Personnel Management—a case book (2nd ed.): J. W. Towle S. M. Schoen R. L. Higgert. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Occupational Choice. A selection from The Sociological Review: W. M. Williams, ed. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Participation in Management: Industrial democracy in three Western European Countries: W. Albeda, ed. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Worker Participation and Collective Bargaining in Europe Commission on Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Worker Participation: individual control and performance: D. Guest D. Fatchett INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Working Power: policies for industrial democracy: G. Radice, ed. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Worker Participation in Britain Social Policy Research Ltd. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Workers' Management and Workers' Wages in Yugoslavia—the theory and practice of participatory socialism: H. M. Wachtel TRADE UNIONS: Social Stratification and Trade Unionism: G. Bain D. Coates V. Ellis. TRADE UNIONS: Trade Unionism: J. A. Banks TRADE UNIONS: Trade Unions and Society—the struggle for acceptance, 1850–1880: W. M. Fraser. TRADE UNIONS: The First Shop Stewards Movement: J. Hinton TRADE UNIONS: The Union of Post Office Workers—a study in political sociology: M. Moran TRADE UNIONS: Political Purpose in Trade Unions: I. Richter TRADE UNIONS: Labour: the Unions and the Party—study of the trade unions and the British Labour movement: B. Simpson TRADE UNIONS: White-Collar workers and the U.A.W. C. D. Synder THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: The Multinational Company in Europe—some key problems: M. Z. Brooke H. L. Remmers (ed.) THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Multinational Corporations and National Government. A case study of the United Kingdom's experience 1964–1970: M. Hodges THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: MuItinational Enterprises and Social Policy THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: American Labour and the Multinational Corporation: O. Kujawa, ed. THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: International Business and Multinational Enterprises: S. H. Robock K. Simmonds THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Multinational Business: V. Salera THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Managing the Multinational Enterprise: Organisation of the firms and ownership of the subsidiaries: J. M. Stopford L. T. Well, Jr. INCOME DISTRIBUTI0N: Unequal Shares: wealth in Britain: A. B. Atkinson INCOME DISTRIBUTI0N: Low Pay and How to End it—a union review: A. Fisher B. Dix. INCOME DISTRIBUTI0N: Poverty, Inequality and Class Structure: A. Wedderburn, ed. INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Measurements of Labour Disputes and their Economic Effects: M. Fisher INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Strikes and Industrial Conflict: Britain and Scandinavia: G. K. Ingham. INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Strike—A live history 1887–1971: R. A. Leeson. INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Case Studies in Industrial Law and Relations: J. Ritson BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Unfair Dismissal and the Law: S. D. Anderman BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Pay and Price Control Guide: B. Bracewell-Milnes BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: The Industrial Relations Act—a comprehensive guide: C. Crabtree. BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Industrial Tribunals—a practical guide: R. M. Greenhalgh. BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Industrial Relations: R. C. Simpson J. C. Wood. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Managing the Health Service: S. C. Haywood. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Management by Objectives in Local Government: J. W. Glendinning R. E. M. Bullock. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: General Review of Conditions of Employment of Public Services: International Labour Organisation. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Career Problems in the Public Service: International Labour Organisation. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Staff Relations in the Civil Service—fifty years of Whitleyism: M. Parris. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Public Employee Unionism: Structure, growth, policy Studies of Unionism in Government: J. Stieber PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: The Unions and the Cities. Studies of unionism in government: H. M. Wellington R. K. Winter, Jr. COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: Japanese Blue Collar-the changing tradition R. E. Cole COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: African Railwaymen: solidarity and opposition in an East African labour force R. D. Grillo COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: The Aristocracy of Labourthe position of the skilled craftsman in the American class structure G. MacKenzie COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: The Ghanaian Factory Worker: Industrial Man in Africa M. Peil     

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Book reviews in this article: ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LABOUR RELATIONS LAW edited by B. A. Hepple and Paul O'Higgins FAIRFIELDS—A STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL CHANGE by K. J. W. Alexander and C. L. Jenkins PRODUCTIVITY BARGAINING: A CASE STUDY IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY by E. Owen Smith THE NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES Joan Mitchell WORKERS' PARTICIPATION IN WESTERN EUROPE IPM Information Report 10 (New Series)     

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Book reviews in this article: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE COMMON MARKET by Campbell Balfour AN INCOMES POLICY FOR BRITAIN edited by F. Blackaby PILOTS AND MANAGEMENT: Industrial Relations in the UK Airlines by A. N. J. Blain WHITE COLLAR UNIONISM IN BRITAIN: A SURVEY OF THE PRESENT POSITION by Roger Lumley THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FRINGE BENEFITS IN INDUSTRY by Jane Moonman UPGRADING BLUE COLLAR AND SERVICE WORKERS by Charles Brecher HUMAN RESOURCES - OBTAINING RESULTS FROM PEOPLE AT WORK by E. J. Singer and J. Ramsden     

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TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: EUROPE, JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES Edited by B. C. Roberts THE REAL POWER GAME - A GUIDE TO EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Jack Peel JOB ‘CREATION’ - OR DESTRUCTION? R. Harris et alia WORK CREATION: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES M. P. Jackson and V. J. B. Hanby (eds.)     

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Book reviews in this article: TRADE UNIONS AND NATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY Jack Barbash (with the assistance of Kate Barbash) THE BRITISH PRICES AND INCOMES BOARD Allan Fells TRAINING WITHIN THE ORGANISATION David King COLLECTIVE BARGAINING BY BRITISH LOCAL AUTHORITY EMPLOYEES H. M. Levinson CONFLICT AND CHANGE: ASPECTS OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Kevin Hawkins INTERNATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS MANAGEMENT IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY Duane Kujawa THE SUCCESSFUL SUPERVISOR IN GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS William R. Van Dorsal     

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Book reviews in this article: GOOD INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS John Purcell BRITAIN IN DECLINE Andrew Gamble ENGLISH CULTURE AND THE DECLINE OF THE INDUSTRIAL SPIRIT, 1850–1980 Martin J. Wiener MONDRAGON—AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Henk Thomas and Chris Logan THE RULE OF LAW T. Corfield     

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BOARDS OF DIRECTORS IN BRITISH INDUSTRY Christopher Brookes COMPANY ORGANISATION AND WORKER PARTICIPATION Ian B. Knight MANAGING PEOPLE AT WORK John Hunt McGraw-Hill WORK AND POWER: THE LIBERATION OF WORK AND THE CONTROL OF POLITICAL POWER Edited by Tom R. Burns, Lars Erik Karlsson and Veljko Rus Sage Publications NEW DEAL FOR STEEL, THE IRON AND STEEL CONFEDERATION , FRANCES TIPTON UNDERSTANDING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS D. Farnham and J. Pimlott Cassell     

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Book Reviewed in This Article: MANAGERIAL STRATEGIES AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS : Edited by Howard F. Gospel and Craig R. Littler UNIONS ON THE BOARD : E. Batstone, A. Ferner and M. Terry AUTHORITY AND PARTICIPATION IN INDUSTRY : P. Brannen INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOCRACY, Vol. 1 ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL PROCESSES : Colin Crouch and Frank Heller (eds.) SAFETY AT WORK AND THE UNIONS : P. B. Beaumont     

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THE CHANGING SYSTEM OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN University of Glasgow LABOUR RELATIONS—HERITAGE AND ADJUSTMENT Sir Otto Kahn-Freund, Q.C.* Lanchester Polytechnic MANPOWER PROBLEMS IN THE HOTEL & CATERING INDUSTRY Hotel and Catering Industry Training Board THE POSTAL BUSINESS 1969–79 University of Nottingham WORKING WOMEN AND THE LAW Legal Officer General and Municipal Workers' Union INDUSTRIAL LABOR IN THE USSR Univesity of Glasgow AFRICANISATION, NATIONALISATION AND INEQUALITY University of Edinburgh