Design and cultural identity

European Editor of International DESIGN(New York) and, author of New American Design(Rizzoli International Publications New York)     

Progression in Technology Education in New Zealand: Components of Practice as a Way Forward

Understanding and undertaking technological practice is fundamental to student learning in technology education in New Zealand, and the enhancement of student technological literacy. The implementation of technology into New Zealand’s core curriculum has reached the stage where it has become critical that learning programmes are based on student progression to allow for a seamless education in technology from early primary to senior secondary. For this to occur, teachers and students need to focus learning on key features of technology education. This paper is based on research initiated in 2001 which explored the nature of progression of student learning in technology. It draws on findings from research undertaken in New Zealand classrooms in 1999–2000 that resulted in the development of the technology assessment framework (TAF), (as reported in detail Compton & Harwood 2003). The 1999–2001 research was funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education. Findings from the 2001 research allowed for the identification of key features of technology education that are relevant across all age groups, contexts and technological areas. These key features were collectively termed components of practice. The three components of practice established to date are brief development, planning for practice, and outcome development and evaluation. This paper discusses the development of progression matrices for each of these and provides illustrative examples of student work levelled against the matrix indicators of progression for brief development.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Jared Bernstein Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition Michael Rose Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy Jonathan Winterton Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss John Saville A Life on the Left Catherine Hakim Part-Time Prospects: An International Comparison of Part-Time Work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim Andreas Wittel The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism John Benson HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation Marco C. de Witte New Forms of Work Organisation: Can Europe Realise its Potential?     

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

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 for Uncommon Times: The Power of Balance in Work, Family, and Personal Life. By Mark S. Guterman. From Downsizing to Recovery: Strategic Use of the Outplacement Option. By Richard Knowdell, Elizabeth Branstead, and Milan Moravec. Heroes of Unwritten Story: The UAW, 1934–39. By Henry Fruas. Internal Company Investigations and the Employment Relationship. By Warren Freedman. Labor Economics and Industrial Relations: Markets and Institutions. Edited by Clark Kerr and Paul D. Staudohar. New Frontiers in European Industrial Relations. Edited by Anthony Ferner and Richard Hyman. The New Left and Labor in the 1960s. By Peter B. Levy. Roberts' Dictionary of Industrial Relations. Prepared by the Industrial Relations Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Joyce M. Najita, Director. Studies in Labour Economics. Edited by Erkin I. Bairam. Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politicsl 1863–1993. By Eric Arnesen.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Ronaldo Munck. Globalisation and Labour: The New ‘Great Transformation’ Gerda van Roozendaal. Trade Unions and Global Governance: The Debate on a Social Clause Edited by Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O’Brien. Global Unions? Theory and Strategies of Organized Labour in the Global Political Economy Louise Amoore. Globalisation Contested: An International Political Economy of Work Edited by Christopher Candland and Rudra Sil. The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late‐industrializing and Post‐socialist Economies Edited by Jürgen Hoffmann. The Solidarity Dilemma: Globalisation, Europeanisation and the Trade Unions Edited by Alan B. Krueger and Robert Solow. The Roaring Nineties: Can Full Employment Be Sustained? David I. Levine, Dale Belman, Gary Charness, Erica L. Groshen and K. C. O’Shaughnessy. W. E. How New is the ‘New Employment Contract’? Evidence from North American Pay Practices Christopher K. Ansell. Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements: The Politics of Labour in the French Third Republic Jean‐Pierre Durand and Nicolas Hatzfeld, translated by Dafydd Roberts. Living Labour: Life on the Line at Peugeot France Jennifer Lynn Roney. Webs of Resistance in a Newly Privatized Polish Firm: Workers React to Organizational Transformation     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: New Perspectives on Industrial Disputes edited by David Metcalf and Simon Milner. The New Industrial Relations by Neil Millward. Willing Slaves? by Andrew Scott. Human Resource Management: Key Concepts and Skills by P. B. Beaumont. Principles of Human Resource Management by D. Goss. Managing Human Resources and Industrial Relations by J. Storey and Keith Sisson. Privatization and Employment Relations: The Case of the Water Industry by Julia O'Connell Davidson. Trade Union Behaviour, Pay Bargaining and Economic Performance by R. J. Flanagan, K.O. Moene and M. Wallerstein. Employment Security and Labor Market Behaviour edited by Christoph F. Buechtemann. Cultural Perspectives on Organizations by Mats Alvesson. Breaking from Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industry by Ulrich Jürgens, Thomas Malsch and Knuth Dohse. Labor and an Integrated Europe edited by Lloyd Ulman, Barry Eichengreen and William T. Dickens. The Politics of French Trade Unionism by Jeff Bridgford.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Representing Workers: Union Recognition and Membership in Britain edited by Howard Gospel and Stephen Wood. Routledge, London/New York, 2003, xiv + 192 pp., ISBN 0 41528 7286, £19.99 paper. Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study edited by Peter Fairbrother and Charlotte A. B. Yates. Continuum, London/New York, 2003, xxiii + 288 pp., ISBN 0 82645 4372, £35 paper. The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements by Dan Clawson. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY/London, 2003, xii + 235 pp., ISBN 0 80144 1099, $42.50; IBN 0 80148 8702, $18.95 paper. Forces of Labour: Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870 by Beverly J. Silver. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2003, xv + 238 pp., ISBN 0 52181 751X, £45 (US$65); ISBN 0 52152 0770, £16.95 (US$23) paper. Workers’ Rights as Human Rights edited by James A. Gross. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY/London, 2003, ISBN 0 80144 0882, £20.95 ($35). Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison by Harish C. Jain, Peter J. Sloane and Frank M. Horwitz. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY/London, 2003, xii + 229 pp., ISBN 0 76560 4523, $66.95; ISBN 0 7656 04531, $26.95 paper. Workplace Equality: International Perspectives on Legislation, Policy and Practice edited by Carol Agocs. Kluwer Law International, The Hague/London/New York, 2002, x + 283 pp., ISBN 9 04118 3438, £58. Unfair Labour Practices: Trade Union Recognition and Employer Resistance by K. D. Ewing, Sian Moore and Stephen Wood. Institute of Employment Rights, London, October 2003, 64 pp., ISBN 0 95437 8148, £6.50 to trade unions and students/£20 to others, paper. Labour Markets, Gender and Institutional Change: Essays in Honour of Günter Schmid edited by Hugh Mosley, Jacqueline O’Reilly and Klaus Schömann. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Glos./Northampton, Mass., 2002, xvii + 382 pp., ISBN 1 84064 8619, £75. Models of the Family in Modern Societies: Ideals and Realities by Catherine Hakim. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, xv + 282 pp., ISBN 75463 728X, £45. Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America by Mary Margaret Fonow. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2003, x + 250 pp., ISBN 0 81663 8837, $19.95 paper. Law and Labour Market Regulation in East Asia edited by Sean Cooney, Tim Lindsey, Richard Mitchell and Ying Zhu. Routledge, London/New York, xv + 282 pp., ISBN 0 41522 1684, £60.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Teulings, Coen and Hartog, Joop Corporatism or Competition? Labour Contracts, Institutions and Wage Structures in International Comparison Herzenberg, Stephen A., Alic, John A. and Wial, Howard New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Post‐industrial America Strange, Susan Mad Money Whitfield, Keith and Strauss, George (eds) Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations Mabey, Christopher, Skinner, Dennis and Clark, Timothy (eds) Experiencing Human Resource Management Newman, Karen L. and Nollen, Stanley D. Managing Radical Organizational Change Stark, David and Bruszt, Laszlo Post‐socialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe Lange, Thomas and Shackleton, J.R. (eds) The Political Economy of German Unification Joshi, Heather and Paci, Pierella Unequal Pay for Men and Women: Evidence from the British Cohort Studies Eisenberg, Susan We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working in Construction Drew, Eileen, Emerek, Ruth and Mahon, Evelyn (eds) Women, Work and the Family in Europe     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Laboring Below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low‐Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy edited by Frank Munger. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2002, xi + 319 pp., ISBN 0871 546175, £42.50. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. Granta Books, London, 2002, 328 pp., ISBN 1 86207 588 3, £8.99 paper. Hard Work: Life in Low‐Pay Britain by Polly Toynbee. Bloomsbury, London, 2003, 242 pp., ISBN 7475 6415 9, £6.99, paper.
Reviewed by Mary Romero
School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University Low‐Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace edited by Eileen Appelbaum, Annette Bernhardt and Richard J. Murnane. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2003, xii + 535 pp., ISBN 0 87154 025 8, $45.
Reviewed by David Fairris
University of California, Riverside Employment Stability in an Age of Flexibility: Evidence from Industrialized Countries edited by Peter Auer and Sandrine Cazes. International Labour Office, Geneva, 2003, xv + 272 pp., ISBN 92 2 112716 8, SFr 35, paper.
Reviewed by Gary Slater
Economics Division, Nottingham Trent University Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low‐end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise edited by Edmund S. Phelps. Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0 521 81965 5, £40.
Reviewed by David A. Spencer
Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds Can Labor Standards Improve under Globalization? by Kimberley Ann Elliot and Richard B. Freeman. Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, 2003, xii + 179 pp., ISBN 0 88132 332 2 £19.50 paper. International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade, and Public Policy edited by Robert J. Flanagan and William B. Gould iv . Stanford University Press, Stanford, Cal., 2004, 275 pp., ISBN 0 8047 4690 7, £36.95.
Reviewed by Rohini Hensman
Union Research Group, Bombay International Handbook of Trade Unions edited by John T. Addison and Claus Schnabel. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, Mass., 2003, viii + 555 pp., ISBN 1 84064 979, £140.
Reviewed by Bob Elliott
Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen Parties and Unions in the New Global Economy by Katrina Burgess. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh Pa, 2004, xxiii + 209 pp., ISBN 0 8229 5825 2, $27.95.
Reviewed by Kerstin Hamann
Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida Industrial Relations and European Integration: Trans‐ and Supranational Developments and Prospects edited by Berndt Keller and Hans‐Wolfgang Platzer. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, ISBN 0 7546 33365, pp. 182, £45.
Reviewed by Richard Hyman
London School of Economics Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario by Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin. University of Toronto Press, Toronto/Buffalo/London, 2003, xv + 279 pp., ISBN 0 8020 8753 1, $60/£35.
Reviewed by Daphne G. Taras
University of Calgary     

The Financial Impact of Organisational Downsizing Practices—The New Zealand Experience

Partly in response to the Asian economic crisis, many organisations in the Asia Pacific rim reduced staff numbers. This research examines the New Zealand experience of this change intervention from 1997 to 1999. This includes an examination of the impact on financial performance, and how the process followed may moderate such an impact. A questionnaire instrument was designed to measure this, to which responses were received from 155 New Zealand for-profit organisations employing fifty or more people.There is some evidence to suggest that those respondents who had downsized over the period of the study reported lower measures of profitability than those who did not (p < .05). Also, ensuring the procedure was perceived as just by the employees, and offering outplacement help to those who lost their jobs, went some way to improving the financial performance of downsized firms (p < .05). This may suggest that if downsizing is necessary then attention needs to be given to how the process is implemented in order to maximise the financial return.Peter Carswell teaches, consults and researches in the areas of organisational change, development, and innovation; leadership; strategic management; team building; people management and human resource training; organisational culture; management development; and entrepreneurship. He is a research fellow at UNITEC Institute of Technology in New Zealand.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Power to Manage? Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative-Historical Perspective edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin. Comparative Industrial Relations: Contemporary Research and Theory edited by Roy J. Adams A Flexible Future? Prospects for Employment and Organisation edited by Paul Blyton and Jonathan Morris Life and Death at Work: Industrial Accidents as a Case of Socially Produced Error by Tom Dwyer Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation by Gideon Kunda Japan and the Global Economy: Issues and Trends in the 1990s edited by Jonathan Morris. Designing Organizations: A Decision-Making Perspective by Richard Butler. Routledge Rethinking Organization: New Directions in Organization Theory and Analysis edited by Michael Reed and Michael Hughes The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis edited by Walter W. Powell and Paul J. DiMaggio Contemporary British Industrial Relations by Sid Kessler and Fred Bayliss Taming the Trade Unions: A Guide to the Thatcher Government's Employment Reforms, 1980-90 by Charles G. Hanson, Macmillan Helping the Unemployed by R. Disney The Economy under Mrs Thatcher 1979–1990 by Christopher Johnson International Comparisons of Vocational Education and Training for Intermediate Skills edited by Paul Ryan     

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: Farewell to Flexibility? edited by Anna Pollert L'Atelier et le Robot by Benjamin Coriat Unemployment by Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, and Richard Jackman Mismatch and Labour Mobility, edited by Fiorella Padoa Schioppa New Developments in the Labour Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradigm edited by Katharine Abraham and Robert McKersie Technological Change and Employment: Innovation in the German Economy edited by R. Schettkat and M. Wagner Konfliktpartnerschaft: Acteure und Institutionen der Industriellen Beziehungen edited by Walter Mueller-Jentsch In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations by Cynthia Cockburn Economic Decline in Britain: The Shipbuilding Industry, 1890–1970 by Edward H. Lorenz The Management of Labor: The British and French Iron and Steel Trade Industries, 1860–1918 by Judith Eizenberg Vichniac Industrial Society and Economic Crisis by John Eldridge, Peter Cressey and John MacInnes International Handbook of Participation in Organizations, Volume II: Ownership and Participation edited by Raymond Russell and Velkjo Rus Critical Readings in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2 vols.) edited by Cary L. Cooper Negotiation: From Theory to Practice by Jacques Rojot The Climate of Workplace Relations by Ali Dastmalchian, Paul Blyton and Raymond Adamson Profit Sharing and Gain Sharing by Myron J. Roomkin     

Knowledge Matters: Technology,Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Innovation Networks and Knowledge ClustersEdited by Elias G. Carayannis and Piero Formica . Hampshire,UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. 267 + xix pages. US$90.00.

Books reviewed in this issue:

• Knowledge Matters: Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters
• Future Search: Getting the Whole System in the Room for Vision, Commitment, and Action
• Take Charge Product Management: Time‐Tested Tips, Tactics, and Tools for the New or Improved Product Manager

     

Choice of organizational form in the life insurance industry: New Zealand evidence

Two forms of ownership structure characterize the insurance industry—the stock company owned by shareholders and the mutual form which is owned by its policyholders. The academic literature suggests that ownership structure is dependent upon the efficiency of the endogenous contracting mechanisms and governance structures in firms. Mutuals are predicted to exist and successfully compete with stock companies in insurance markets because they merge the ownership-customer functions and introduceex-ante contracting mechanisms andex-post modes of governance which restrict managerial discretion. Drawing a framework from transaction cost theory, this study tests empirically the proposition that choice of ownership structure in the life insurance industry is related to contracting mechanisms and governance structures in the firm. Individual cross-sectional logistic regression models are estimated using 1991–1993 data gathered from New Zealand's life insurance industry. Consistent with expectations our results suggest that mutuals are more likely to have higher asset specificity than stock companies. By contrast, stocks appear to be more reinsured and incur higher governance expenditures than mutual companies. Furthermore, contrary to what was hypothesized, our findings indicate that mutuals may be bigger than stock companies. Therefore, overall the empirical evidence does not support the predictions drawn from transaction cost theory.The authors are lecturers, Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Glasgow, and Department of Accountancy, Massey University, New Zealand, respectively.The authors thank Lars Hassel, Leung Hing-Man, Bill Maughan, Mike Pickford, Kulwant Singh and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on original drafts of this paper. However, they are solely responsible for any errors or omissions that remain. They also appreciate the cooperation of members of New Zealand's life insurance industry for supplying information. Finally, the financial support of Price Waterhouse (Wellington, New Zealand) is gratefully acknowledged.     

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.     

Response to mason and drakeman's commentary on “fishing for sharks: Partner selection in biopharmaceutical R&D alliances”

We respond to Mason and Drakeman's comment on our published paper titled “Are All ‘Sharks’ Dangerous? New Biotechnology Ventures and Partner Selection in R&D Alliances” (Diestre and Rajagopalan, 2012). We discuss both their survey analysis and alternative explanation and conclude that neither of them invalidates our theoretical premise and our empirical conclusions. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Marx's Revenge by Meghnad Desai. Verso, London and New York, 2002, xi + 372 pp, ISBN 1‐8598‐4644‐0, £19/$27.
Reviewed by Andrew Glyn
University of Oxford
Bob Sutcliffe
Bilbao United We Stand: A History of Britain's Trade Unions by Alastair J. Reid. Allen Lane, London, 2004, xvii + 471 pp., ISBN 0‐7139‐9758‐3, £25.
Reviewed by David Metcalf
London School of Economics Personnel Economics edited by Edward P. Lazear and Robert McNabb, 2 vols. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, Mass., 2004, 1040 pp., ISBN 1‐8406‐4892‐9, £240.
Reviewed by Martin J. Conyon
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Industrial Relations in China by Bill Taylor, Chang Kai and Li Qi. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, Mass., 2003, x + 267 pp., ISBN 1‐8406‐4578‐4, £59.95.
Reviewed by Jackie Sheehan
Nottingham University The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America by Dorothy Sue Cobble. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2004, xiv + 315 pp., ISBN 0‐6910‐6993‐X, £19.95.
Reviewed by Mary Margaret Fonow
Arizona State University What's Class Got to Do With It? American Society in the Twenty‐First Century edited by Michael Zweig. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, and London, 2004, vii + 211 pp., ISBN 0‐8014‐4259‐1, $37.50/£21.50; ISBN 0‐8014‐8899‐0, $17.95/£10.50.
Reviewed by Dan Clawson
University of Massachusetts Amherst Creating Cooperation: How States Develop Human Capital in Europe by Pepper D. Culpepper. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2003, xvi + 239 pp, ISBN 0‐8014‐4069‐6, US$35/£23.50.
Reviewed by David Finegold
Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont, CA Leadership in Organizations: Current Issues and Key Trends edited by John Storey. Routledge, Taylor & Francis, London/New York, 2004, xiii + 349 pp., ISBN 0‐4153‐1033‐4, £22.99 paper.
Reviewed by Mary S. Logan
London School of Economics Culture and Management in Asia edited by Malcolm Warner. Routledge Curzon, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, 2003, xiii + 266 pp., ISBN 0‐4152‐9727‐3, £65.
Reviewed by Jackie Sheehan
Nottingham University     

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: Capitalist Diversity and Change: Recombinant Governance and Institutional Entrepreneurs by Colin Crouch. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, 184 pp., ISBN 0 19 928647 7, £50.00.
Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches edited by David Coates. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2005, xi + 300 pp., ISBN 1 4039 1886 4, £60.00.
Review by Gregory Jackson
King’s College London
Richard Deeg
Temple University Labor Embattled: History, Power, Rights by David Brody. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2005, x + 166 pp., ISBN 0 252 07246 4, US$20.00, paper.
The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914–1939 by Larry G. Gerber. University of Northern Illinois Press, DeKalb, 2005, viii + 212 pp., ISBN 0 87580 347 4, US$40.00.
Review by Howell John Harris
University of Durham The Politics of Working Life by Paul Edwards and Judy Wajcman. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, xvi + 316 pp., ISBN 0 19 927190 9, £60.00.
Review by Chris Clegg
Institute of Work Psychology, University of Sheffield Employment, Trade Union Renewal and the Future of Work — The Experience of Work and Organisational Change edited by Paul Stewart. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005, xi + 290 pp., ISBN 1 4039 12270, £60.00.
Review by Kirsty Newsome
University of Strathclyde Labour Laws and Global Trade by Bob Hepple. Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, OR, 2005, xxiii + 302 pp., ISBN 1 84113 160 1, £30.00; ISBN 1 84113 187 3, £20.00, paper.
Review by William B. Gould IV
Stanford Law School A Global Union for Global Workers — Collective Bargaining and Regulatory Politics in Maritime Shipping by Nathan Lillie. Routledge, New York and London, 2006, vii + 209 pp., ISBN 0 415 97747 9, £45.00.
Review by Harold Lewis
General Secretary of the ITF, 1977–1993 Employment Relations and the Health Service — The Management of Reforms by Stephen Bach. Routledge, Abingdon, 2004, x + 239 pp., ISBN 0 415362997, £65.00.
Review by Maria Koumenta
London School of Economics Employment Relations in the Hospitality and Tourism Industries by Rosemary Lucas. Routledge, London and New York, 2004, xx + 306 pp., ISBN 0415297125, £23.99, paper.
Review by Peter Haynes
University of Auckland Critical Management Studies: A Reader edited by Christopher Grey and Hugh Willmott. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, ix + 437 pp., ISBN 0 19 928608 6, £24.99, paper.
Review by Carl Rhodes
University of Technology Sydney Emotions in Organizational Behavior edited by Charmine E. J. Härtel, Wilfred J. Zerbe and Neal M. Ashkanasy. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey and London, 2005, xxv + 425 pp., ISBN 1 8058 5098 8, US$99.95, Special Prepaid Price US$49.95.
Review by Ginka Toegel
London School of Economics