The Oxford Handbook of Work & Organization – Edited by Stephen Ackroyd,Rosemary Batt,Paul Thompson and Pamela S.

Books reviewed: The Oxford Handbook of Work & Organization edited by Stephen Ackroyd, Rosemary Batt, Paul Thompson and Pamela S. Tolbert. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, xiii + 655 pp., ISBN 0 19 926992 0, £75.00.     

The Future of Worker Representation – Edited by Geraldine Healy,Edmund Heery,Phil Taylor and William Brown

Books reviewed: The Future of Worker Representation edited by Geraldine Healy, Edmund Heery, Phil Taylor and William Brown. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, xvi + 325 pp., ISBN 1 4039 17590, £55.00.     

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     

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     

Demanding Work — The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy – Francis Green

Books reviewed: Demanding Work — The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy by Francis Green. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2006, xiii + 225 pp., ISBN 0 6911 17128, £26.95.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Employment with Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice by John W. Budd. ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2004, xiv + 263 pp., ISBN 0 8014 42087, US$39.95/£22.95.
Reviewed by Laurie Hunter
School of Business and Management, University of Glasgow Workplace Justice Without Unions by Hoyt B. Wheeler, Brian S. Klaas and Douglas M. Mahony. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2004, xii + 229 pp., ISBN 0 88099 313 8, $40.00.
Reviewed by Alexander J. S. Colvin
The Pennsylvania State University The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace by Charles J. Morris, with a foreword by Theodore J. St. Antoine. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2005, 315 pp., ISBN 0 8014 4317 2, $35.00/£20.50/EUR28.95.
Reviewed by John W. Budd
University of Minnesota Reorganizing the Rust Belt — An Inside Study of the American Labour Movement by Steven Henry Lopez. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2004, xxii + 292 pp., ISBN 0 520 23280 1, $21.95/£14.95, paper.
Reviewed by Sean Safford
London School of Economics Corporate Governance and Labour Management: An International Comparison edited by Howard Gospel and Andrew Pendleton. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, xvi + 384 pp., ISBN 0 19 9263671, £55.00.
Reviewed by Suzanne Konzelmann
Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London European Integration and Industrial Relations: Multi‐level Governance in the Making by Paul Marginson and Keith Sisson. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2004, xxii + 360 pp., ISBN 0333968662, £60.00.
Reviewed by Bob Hancké
London School of Economics and Political Science Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe edited by Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2003, xi + 256 pp., ISBN 1 84376 432 6, £59.95.
Reviewed by Michael Neugart
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) Working Parents and the Welfare State: Family Change and Policy Reform in Scandinavia by Arnlaug Leira. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002, vii + 182 pp., ISBN 0 521 57129 4, $65.00/£40.00.
Reviewed by Birgit Pfau ‐Effinger
Institute for Sociology, University of Hamburg Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global Economy by Patricia Adler and Peter Adler. ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2004, xiii + 296 pp., ISBN 0 8014 41897 7, $49.95/£29.95, paper.
Reviewed by Dennis Nickson
Scottish Hotel School, University of Strathclyde How Political Parties Respond: Interest Aggregation Revisited edited by Kay Lawson and Thomas Poguntke. Routledge, London and New York, 2004, viii + 271 pp., ISBN 0 415 34797 1, £65.00.
Reviewed by Kerstin Hamann
Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida Cross‐cultural Management — Foundations and Future edited by Dean Tjosvold and Kwok Leung. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 2003, viii + 180 pp., ISBN 0 7546 1881 1, £45.00.
Reviewed by Mary Logan
London School of Economics New Frontiers of Democratic Participation at Work edited by Michael Gold. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 2003, xv + 236 pp., ISBN 0 75460924 3, £49.95.
Reviewed by Jeff Hyman
University of Aberdeen     

The Law of the Labour Market — Industrialization,Employment, and Legal Evolution – Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson

Books reviewed: The Law of the Labour Market — Industrialization, Employment, and Legal Evolution by Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, xxv + 380 pp., ISBN 0 19 8152817, £60.00.     

French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy – Nick Parsons

Books reviewed: French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy by Nick Parsons. Routledge, London and New York, 2005, xii + 222 pp., ISBN 0 415368529, £75.00.     

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: How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, The United States, and Japan by Kathleen Thelen. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, xv + 336 pp., ISBN 0 521 54674 5, £18.99.
Agents of Change: Crossing the Post‐industrial Divide by Charles Heckscher, Michael Maccoby, Rafael Ramírez and Pierre‐Eric Tixier. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, ix + 237 pp., ISBN 0 19 926175 X, £22.50, paper.
Reviewed by David Marsden
London School of Economics The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations: Events, Ideas, and the IIRA by Bruce E. Kaufman. International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004, xxv + 720 pp., ISBN 92‐2‐114153‐5, $74.95.
Reviewed by Sanford M. Jacoby
University of California Los Angeles Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise? edited by Susan Fernie and David Metcalf. Routledge, London, 2005, xvii + 268 pp., ISBN 0 415 28412 0, £21.99, paper.
Reviewed by John Pencavel
Department of Economics, Stanford University Strategic Unionism and Partnership: Boxing or Dancing? edited by Tony Huzzard, Denis Gregory and Regan Scott. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, xxiii + 362 pp., ISBN 1 1403917566, £55.00.
Reviewed by Miguel Martinez Lucio
Bradford University School of Management Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 2004, xii + 278 pp., ISBN 0‐674‐01665‐3, £16.95.
Reviewed by Simon Deakin
Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge The Economics of Affirmative Action edited by Harry J. Holzer and David Neumark. An Elgar Reference Collection, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2004, xxxii + 688 pp., ISBN 1 84376 117 3, £175.00.
Reviewed by Karen Mumford
University of York Welfare for the Unemployed in Britain and Germany: Who Benefits? by Frances McGinnity. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2004, x + 228 pp., ISBN 1 84376 220 X, £55.00.
Reviewed by Malcolm Sawyer
University of Leeds The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy by Philip Brown and Anthony Hesketh with Sarah Williams. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, x + 278 pp., ISBN 0 19 926954 8, £18.00, paper.
Reviewed by Phoebe Moore
University of Manchester     

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     

Licencing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition? – Morris Kleiner

Books reviewed: Licencing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition? by Morris Kleiner. Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006, xiii + 183 pp., ISBN 0 88099 285 9, US$40.00; ISBN 0 88099 284 0, US$18.00, paper.     

Managing to Change? British Workplaces and the Future of Work – Michael White,Stephen Hill,Colin Mills and Deborah Smeaton

Books reviewed: Managing to Change? British Workplaces and the Future of Work by Michael White, Stephen Hill, Colin Mills and Deborah Smeaton. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, xi + 214 pp., ISBN 1 4039 38059, £52.50.     

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     

JOB DESIGN, INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE

Alternatives to Hierarchies by Ph. G. Gerbst. International series on the quality of working life, Vol. 1, Martinus Nijhoff, The Netherlands, 1976, 111 pp., Dfl 37.50.
Democracy at Work by F. Emery and E. Thorsrud
Job Design and Industrial Democracy by J. F. Bolweg
New Forms of Work Organization by L. Klein
Personal Goals and Work Design edited by P. B. Warr. John Wiley     

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: 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: 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: The British Journal of Sociology, 41(3), September 1990. Special Issue: Britain as a European Society? edited by Colin Crouch The Political Economy of Unemployment: Active Labour Market Policy in West Germany and the United States by Thomas Janoski Women in the Japanese Workplace by Mary Saso Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace by Dorinne K. Kondo Managing Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories by D. H. Whittaker The New Masters: Can the West Match Japan? by Phillip Oppenheim Women at Work: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives edited by Jenny Firth-Cozens and Michael West Deciphering the Enterprise Culture: Entrepreneurship, Petty Capitalism and the Restructuring of Britain edited by Roger Burrows Negotiation Games: Applying Game Theory to Bargaining and Arbitration by Stephen J. Brams Current Issues in Labour Economics edited by David Sapsford and Zafiris Tzannatos Patterns of Labour: Work and Social Change in the Pottery Industry by Richard Whipp Corporate Culture: From Vicious to Virtuous Circles by Charles Hampden-Turner     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Legal Intervention in Industrial Relations: Gains and Losses edited by William McCarthy Women and Japanese Management: Discrimination and Reform by Alice Lam. Reassessing Human Resource Management edited by Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull Human Resource Management and Technical Change edited by Jon Clark The Nissan Enigma: Flexibility at Work in a Local Economy by Phillip Garrahan and Paul Stewart The Future of Labour Movements edited by Marino Regini Bargaining Power by Roderick Martin The Economics of Earnings by S. W. Polachek and W. S. Siebert Employment Relations: The Psychology of Influence and Control at Work edited by Jean F. Hartley and Geoffrey M. Stephenson Industrial Relations Systems, revised edition by John T. Dunlop