Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Japan's Reshaping of American Labor Law, by William B. Gould Women and Employment: A Lifetime Perspective (The report of the 1980 DE/OPCS Women and Employment Survey) by Jean Martin and Ceridwen Roberts Sex Discrimination and Equal Opportunity: The Labour Market and Employment Policy, edited by Gunther Schmid and Renate Weitzel White-Collar Proletariat, Deskilling and Gender in Clerical Work by R. Crompton and G. Jones The Management Implications of New Information Technology, edited by Nigel Piercy Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism, edited by John H. Goldthorpe Industrial Conflict Resolution in Market Economies: a study of Australia, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan and the USA, edited by T. Hanami and R. Blanpain International Yearbook of Organisational Democracy. Vol 2, International Perspectives on Organisational Democracy, edited by Berhard Wilpert and Arndt Sorge Cooperation at Work: The Mondragon Experience by Keith Bradley and Alan Gelb The View from Cowley: The Impact of Industrialization upon Oxford 1919-39 by R. C. Whiting Unions and politics in Mexico: The case of the automobile industry by Ian Roxborough Labour and Leisure in the Soviety Union by William Moskoff What Do Unions Do? by Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: G. D. H. Cole and Socialist Democracy, by A. W. Wright The Politics of the Corporate Economy, by Trevor Smith Servants of Post-Industrial Power? Sociologie du Travail in Modern France, by Michael Rose The Working Class in the Labour Market, by R. M. Blackburn and Michael Mann Trade Unions and the Economy, by Brian Burkitt and David Bowers The Economic Analysis of Trade Unions, by Charles Mulvey The Market for Labour: An Analytical Treatment, by John T. Addison and W. Stanley Siebert Marxism and Class Theory; a Bourgeois Critique, by Frank Parkin The Rise and Fall of the British Manager, by Alistair Mant Union Organization and Militancy, Conclusions from a Study of the United Mine Workers of America 1940–1974, by Makoto Takamiya Industrial Relations in Africa, edited by Ukandi G. Damachi, H. Dieter Seibel and Lester Trachtman Votes, Virtues and Vices: Trade Union Power, by Innis MacBeath The Fifth Estate: Britain's Unions in the Modern World, by Robert Taylor     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Origins of Trade Union Power, by Henry Phelps Brown Why are the British Bad at Munufucturing, by Karel Williams, John Williams and Dennis Thomes Strikes in Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work due to Industrial Disputes. 1948-73, by J.W. Durcan. W.E.J. McCarthy and C.P. Redman Strikes in Europe and the United States: Munugernent cind Incidence, by Kenneth Walsh. British Trade Unionism against the Trades Union Congress, by Gerald A. Dorfman Contemporary Industrial Relations in Japan, edited by T. Shirai. Understanding Industrial Relations by David Farnham & John Pimlott Kahn-Freund's Labour and the Law, by Paul Davies and Mark Freedland. International Yearbook of Organizational Democracy, Volume I, Organizational Democracy and Political Processes, edited by Colin Crouch and Frank A. Heller The Nature of Work. An Introduction to Debates on the Labour Process. by Paul Thompson. Discriminaiion and Disadvantage in Employment: The Experience of Black Workers. edited by P. Braham, E. Rhodes and M. Pearn.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Company Organization and Worker Participation: A Survey of Attitudes and Practices in Industrial Democracy with Special Emphasis on the Prospects for Employee Directors, by Ian B. Knight. Boards of Directors in British Industry, by Christopher Brookes. Sabotage in Industry, by Pierre Dubois. British Industry between the Wars: Instability and Industrial Development 1919–1939, edited by Neil K. Buxton and Derek H. Aldcroft. Birds of Passage: Migrant Labour and Industrial Societies, by Michael J. Piore. Concise Encyclopedia of Industrial Relations, by Arthur Marsh. Industrial Conflict in Modern Britain, by James E. Cronin, Croom Helm, What do the British Want from Participation and Industrial Democracy? by Frank Heller, Malcolm Wilders, Peter Abell and Malcolm Warner Protest and Participation: The new Working Class in Italy, by J. R. Low-Beer Capitalism and Socialism: A Theological Inquiry, edited by Michael Novak The Awkward Warrior, Frank Cousins: His Life and Times, by Geoffrey Goodman. David Poynter Satisfactions in Work Design: Ergonomics and Other Approaches, edited by R.G. Sell and P. Shipley The Japanese Company, by Rodney Clark Job Redesign and Management Control: Studies in British Leyland and Volvo, by F.H.M. Blackler and C.A. Brown The Quality of Working Life in Western and Eastern Europe, edited by Caryl L. Cooper and Enid Mumford The Working Class Manager: Beliefs and Behaviour, by S. G. Redding Technical Change and Employment, by Roy Rothwell and Walter Zegveld A Bibliography of British Industrial Relations, by G. S. Bain and G. B. Woolven A Sociology of Industrialisation: An Introduction, by David Brown and Michael J. Harrison Between Labour and Capital, edited by Pat Walker. Women for Hire: A Study of Female Office Workers, by Fiona McNally Sexual Harassment of Working Women, by Catharine A. MacKinnon Women in Trade Unions, by A. J. Geare, J. J. Herd, J. M. Howells Doctrine and Ethos in the Labour Party, by H. M. Drucker Governments and Trade Unions: the British Experience 1964–79, by Denis Barnes and Eileen Reid     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: A Theory of Pay, by Adrian Wood Industrial Politics by Robert Currie Labour Relations: Heritage and Adjustment, by Sir Otto Kahn-Freund Les syndicats, les patrons et l'Etat: tendances de la négotiation collective en France, by Jean-Daniel Reynaud Politique, partis et syndicats dans l'entreprise, by Dimitri Weiss Conflict and Democracy: Studies in Trade Union Government, by John Hemingway Respectable Rebels: Middle Class Campaigns in Britain in the 1970s, Roger King and Neill Nugent Can We Get Back to Full Employment? by Maurice Scott (with Robert A. Leslett) The Control of Work, ed. by John Purcell and Robin Smith     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Labour Law and the Community: Perspectives for the 1980s, edited by Lord Wedderburn and W.T. Murphy Picketing: Industrial Disputes, Tactics and the Law, by Peggy Kahn, Norman Lewis, Rowland Livock and Paul Wiles The Law of Industrial Relations, by J G Riddall Industrial Productivity, by Michael M. Gruneberg and David J. Oborne Psychology and Industrial Productivity: A reader, edited by Michael M. Gruneberg and David J. Oborne The Degradation of Work? edited by Stephen Wood The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies, by Craig Littler The Shopfloor Politics of New Technology, by Barry Wilkinson Exploring Participation by Paul Bate and Iain Mangham Lost Managers: Supervisors in Industry and Society, by John Child and Bruce Partridge Soviet Trade Unions, by Blair A. Ruble     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Labour Law and Politics in the Weimar Republic, edited by Roy Lewis and Jon Clark. Stagflation Vol. 1 Wage Fixing, by J.E. Meade. Allen & Unwin Payment Systems in Britain, Michael White, Gower Pay in the Public Sector, R.F. Elliot, and J.F. Fallick Effects of the Temporary Employment Subsidy, B.M. Deakin and C.F. Pratten Managers in Focus: The British Manager in the Early 1980s, by Michael Poole, Roger Mansfield, Paul Blyton and Paul Frost Who Gets to the Top?, A Sociological Study of Business Executives, by Gloria L. Lee. Gower The Dynamics of White-Collar Unionism: A Study of Local Union Participation, by Nigel Nicholson, Gill Ursell and Paul Blyton Industrial Relations in International Perspective: Essays on Research and Policy, edited by P.B. Doeringer The Militancy of British Miners by V.L. Allen King Coal, Miners, Coal and Britain's Industrial Future by Tony Hall Au milieu du gué, Jean-Louis Moynot Working Life: A Social Science Contribution to Work Reform, by B. Gardell and G. Johansson Organized Workers and Socialist Politics in Interwar Japan, by Stephen S. Large     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Union of Parts: Labor Politics in Postwar Germany by Kathleen A. Thelen British Industrial Relations, 2nd edn, by Howard F. Gospel and Gill Palmer Prices, Quality and Trust: Inter-Firm Relations in Britain and Japan by Mari Sako Technology and Work in German Industry edited by Norbert Altmann, Christoph Kohler and Pamela Meil Labour in Transition: The Labour Process in Eastern Europe and China edited by Chris Smith and Paul Thompson. Investment and Property Rights in Yugoslavia: The Long Transition to a Market Economy by Milica Uvali? Understanding Industrial Organizations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial Sociology by Richard K. Brown Managing the Shopfloor: Subjectivity, Masculinity and Workplace Culture by David Collinson. Walter de Gruyter Social Corporatism: A Superior Economic System edited by Jukka Pekkarinen, Matti Pohjola and Bob Rowthorn. Rethinking Labour-Management Relations: The Case for Arbitration by Christopher J. Bruce and Jo Carby-Hall Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Great Britain, 2nd edn, by Bob Hepple and Sandra Fredman Industrial Relations and European State Traditions by Colin Crouch     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Shop floor bargaining and the state: Historical and comparative perspectives, edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin The Politics of the West German Trade Unions, Strategies of class and interest representation in growth and crisis, by Andrei S. Markovits The Development of Trade Unionism in Great Britain and Germany, 1880–1914, by Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Hans-Gerhard Husung (eds.). The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany, by M. Maurice, F. Sellier and J. J. Silvestre The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing. The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain, by Samuel Cohn Sex and the Workplace, by Barbara A. Gutek Employee Consultation and Information in Multinational Corporations, edited by J. Vandamme Militant Managers: Managerial Unionism and Industrial Relations, by Greg Bamber Redundancy and Recession: restructuring the regions?, edited by Mike Danson People and Chips: The Human Implications of Information Technology, by Christopher Rowe Technology and Work: East-West Comparison, edited by Peter Grootings The Future Impact of Automation on Workers, by Wassily Leontieff and Faye Duchin Workplace Industrial Relations and Technical Change, by W. W. Daniel     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Workplace Induslrial Relations in Briluin. by W.W. Daniel and Neil Millward. White-Collar Work, by K. Prandy, A. Stewart and R.M. Blackburn Lubour Hoarding in Brilish Indusrry, by John Bowers, David Deaton and Jeremy Turk Labour Market Structure, Industrial Organisation and Low Pay, by Christine Craig, Jill Rubery, Roger Tarling, and Frank Wilkinson Steel and Steelworkers: the sons of Vulcuti, by C. Docherty. Ben Tilletl: Portrait of a Labour Leader. by Jonathan Schneer Surviving as a Middle Manager, by Michael Broussine and Yvonne Guerrier The Socialist Corporalion and Technocratic Power. The Polish United Workers' ‘Party’ Industrial Organisation and Workforce Control 195-30 by Jean Woodall     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Gendered Jobs and Social Change by Rosemary Crompton and Kay Sanderson The Transformation of Work? Skill, Flexibility and the Labour Process, edited by S. Wood Employment in Britain, edited by D. Gallie A Portrait of Pay 1970–1982: An Analysis of the New Earnings Survey, edited by Mary B. Gregory and Andrew W. J. Thomson And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry by John P. Hoerr Unions and Communities under Siege: American Communities and the Crisis of Organised Labour, by G. L. Clark The Origins of Economic Democracy: Profit-Sharing and Employee-Shareholding Schemes, by Michael Poole New Forms of Ownership: Management and Employment, edited by Glenville Jenkins and Michael Poole Work Organisations: A Critical Introduction, by Paul Thompson and David McHugh Training Matters: Union Perspectives on Industrial Restructuring and Training, by Helen Rainbird Divided Societies: Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalism, by Ralph Miliband Flashpoints: Studies in Public Disorder, by David Waddington, Karen Jones and Chas Critcher The 1980s: a Decade of Change? Special Issue of Work, Employment and Society, journal of the British Sociological Association Managing to Discriminate by David L. Collinson, David Knights and Margaret Collinson     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Sabotage: A Study in Industrial Conflict , by Geoff Brown
Industry and Labour: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism , by Andrew L. Friedman
Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America. Essays in American Working-Class and Social history , by Hubert G. Gutman
In Search of the New Working Class: Automation and Social Integration within the Capitalist Enterprise , by D. Gallic
Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers , by James A. Geschwender
The Personnel Managers: a study in the sociology of work and employment , by Tony J. Watson
* K. Legge (1978) Power, Innovation and Problem-Solving in Personnel Management. McGraw-Hill
Developing Teams and Organizations: A Practical Handbook for Managers and Consultants , by Uri Merry and Melvin E. Allerhand
Wage-Price Controls and Labour Market Distortions , by Daniel J. B. Mitchell and Ross E. Azevedo
Labour Shortages and Economic Analysis , by Barry Thomas and David Deaton
South African Trade Unions — History, Legislation, Policy , by M. A. Du Toit     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: British Industrial Relations, by Gill Palmer, Allen and Unwin Industrial Relations in Britain, edited by George Sayers Bain Unemployment: Cuuse and Cure by Patrick Minford Developments in Labour Market Analysis, by C. Joll, C. McKenna. R. McNabb and J. Shorey, George Allen & Unwin Managerial Strategies and Industrial Relations, edited by Howard F. Gospel and Craig R. Littler. White-Collar Unionism, by K. Prandy. A. Stewart and R.M. Blackburn The Democratic Class Struggle, by Walter Korpi Routledge and Kegan Capitalism, the State and Industrial Relations by Dominic Strinati     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Conflict and Change: Aspects of Industrial Relations by Kevin Hawkins
Industrial Relations: A Contemporary Survey by Richard Lowndes
Handbook of Industrial Relations edited by Derek Torrington
The Workers' Union by Richard Hyman
Teachers' Unions and Interest Group Politics by R. D. Coates
The Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades 1871–1971: A History of Trade Unionism in the North Staffordshire Textile Industry by Frank Burchill and Jim Sweeney
Labour and the Law by Otto Kahn-Freund
Strikes by Richard Hyman
Dockers: The Impact of Industrial Change by David F. Wilson
Ford Strike: The Workers' Story by John Mathews
The International Firm and Labour in Kenya: 1945-70 by A. H. Amsden
African Businessmen by P. Marris and A. Somerset
Japanese Blue Collar: The Changing Tradition by Robert E. Cole
Towards a New Philosophy of Management by Paul Hill
Job Evaluation by T. T. Paterson
Spirits and Demons at Work by Harrison M. Trice and Paul M. Roman     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Alison L. Booth (ed.), The Economics of Labor Unions Wilhelm Eberwein, Jochen Tholen and Joachim Schuster, The Europeanisation of Industrial Relations: National and European Processes in Germany, UK, Italy and France Emer O’Hagan, Employee Relations in the Periphery of Europe: The Unfolding Story of the European Social Model Randy Hodson, Dignity at Work Michele Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class and Immigration Guy Van Gyes, Hans De Witte and Patrick Pasture (eds.), Can Class Still Unite? The Differentiated Work Force, Class Solidarity and Trade Unions Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith (eds.), Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives Bob Hancké, Large Firms and Institutional Change: Industrial Renewal and Economic Restructuring in France Huw Beynon, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Kevin Ward, Managing Employment Change: The New Realities of Work Michelle Brown and John S. Heywood (eds.), Paying for Performance: An International Comparison Bob Hepple (ed.), Social and Labour Rights in a Global Context: International and Comparative Perspectives Douglas Ezzy, Narrating Unemployment     

Small Business and Society by David Goss

The History of the Transport and General Workers' Union: Volume One, Parts One and Two: The Emergence of the Labour Movement 1870–1922 by Ken Coates and Tony Topham
For the Good of the Game: The Official History of the Professional Footballers' Association by John Harding
Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialised Market Economies Volume 1: Labour Law edited by R. Blanpain
Les Systèmes de relations professionnelles: Examen critique d'une théorie edited by Jean-Daniel Reynaud, François Eyraud, Catherine Paradeise and Jean Saglio, Editions du CNRS
A Handbook of Dispute Resolution: ADR in Action edited by K. J. Mackie
Public Sector Industrial Relations by P . B. Beaumont
Multinational Banks and their Social and Labour Practices
In Search of Flexibility: The New Soviet Labour Market edited by Guy Standing
Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition by W. Dean Kinzley
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour edited by Philip Brown and Richard Scase
The Sociology of Work: An Introduction by Keith Grint
The Political Economy of Pensions: Power, Politics and Social Change in Canada, Britain and the United States by Richard Lee Deaton
Labour Relations in Eastern Europe: Organizational Design and Dynamics by K. Petkov and J. E. M. Thirkell
The State and the Spatial Management of Industrial Change edited by D. C. Rich and G. J. R. Linge
Public Policy under Thatcher edited by Stephen P. Savage and Lynton Robins
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism by Mike Featherstone     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Managers as Employees: An International Comparison of the Changing Character of Managerial Employment edited by Myron J. Roomkin
Management Control and Union Power: A Study of Labour Relations in Coal Mining by Christine Edwards and Edmund Heery
Class, Power and Technology: Skilled Workers in Britain and America by Roger Penn
Management and Labour in Europe: The Industrial Enterprise in Germany , Britain and France by C. Lane. Edward Elgar
New Forms of Work Organisation in Europe edited by Peter Grootings
Culture, Control and Commitment by James R. Lincoln and Arne L. Kalleberg
Continuous Improvement: Quality Control Circles in Japanese Industry by Paul Lillrank and Noriaki Kano
State and Society in Post-War Japan by Bernard Eccleston
Current Issues in Labour Relations: An International Perspective edited by A. Gladstone, R. Lansbury, J. Stieber, T. Treu and M. Weiss
Socialisation and Learning at Work edited by H. Leymann and Hy Kornbluh
Reluctant Entrepreneurs: The Extent, Achievements and Significance of Worker Takeovers in Europe by Rob Paton
Industrial Relations in Small Firms: Small Isn't Beautiful by Al Rainnie
Social Power and the Labour Market: A Radical Approach to Labour Economics by David Purdy     

Selected by the Institute of Industrial Relations Library University of California at Berkeley

The CZO, 1935–1955. By Robert H. Zieger. Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers. By Ronald L. Filippelli and Mark D. McColloch. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-class Politics in the United States, 1900–1965. By Annelise Orleck Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal. By Devra Weber Employment Contracts: New Zealand Experiences. Edited by Raymond Harbridge. Goodyear Invades the Backcountry: The Corporate Takeover of a Rural Town. By Bryan D. Palmer Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the US. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973. By James R. Zetka, Jr. A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II. By Nancy Baker Wise and Christy Wise Multinationals and Employment: The Global Economy of the 1990s. Edited by Paul Bailey, Aurelio Parisotto and Geoffrey Renshaw. On Different Planes: An Organizational Analysis of Cooperation and Conflict Among Airline Unions. By David J. Walsh. The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class. By Anna Clark Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954–1985. By Deborah Levenson-Estrada. Training for Employment in Western Europe and the United States. By J. R. Shackleton. Women in Trade Unions: Organizing the Unorganized. Edited by Margaret Hosmer Martens and Swasti Mitter. The Work of Strangers: A Survey of International Labour Migration. By Peter Stalker. Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge. Edited by Jacques Belanger, P. K. Edwards, and Larry Haiven.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Miners' Strike 1984–85. Loss Without Limit, by Martin Adeney and John Lloyd Re-working the Work Ethic; Economic Values and Socio-Culiural Politics, by Michael Rose Racism and Recruitment: Managers, organisations and equal opportunity in the labour market, by Richard Jenkins Pathways in the Workplace: The effects of gender and race on access to organisational resources, by Jon Miller The Politics of the UCS Work-in, by J. Foster and C. Woolfson Unemployment: an economic analysis, by K. G. Knight The End of Economic Man? Custom and Competition in Labour Markets, by David Marsden Sons of the Machine, by Charles H. Savage and George F. F. Lombard Unions, Unemployment & Innovation, by Eric Batstone and Stephen Gourlay     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Beyond the Workplace by Paul Marginson, P. K. Edwards, Roderick Martin, John Purcell and Keith Sisson.
Trade Unions and Socialist Politics by John Kelly.
Conflict and Class: Scottish Workers 1700-1838 by W. Hamish Fraser. John Donald, Edinburgh,
Engineers in Britain: A Sociological Study of the Engineering Dimension by Ian A. Glover and Michael P. Kelly. Allen and Unwin
IndustrialRelutions in the Public Services , edited by R. Mailly, S. J. Dimmock and A. S. Sethi. Routledge & Kegan Paul
When Public Sector Workers Unionize , edited by Richard B. Freeman and Casey Ichniowski.
Management under Different Labour Market and Employment Systems , edited by Gunter Dlugos, Wolfgang Dorow and Klaus Weiermair. Walter de Gruyter
Managing Technological Development: Strategic and Human Resource Issues , edited by Urs E. Gattiker and Laurie Larwood.
Shopfloor Politics and Job Controls: The Post-War Engineering Industry , edited by Michael Terryand P. K. Edwards.
International and Comparative Industrial Relations , edited by Greg J. Bamber and Russell D. Lansbury.