Book reviews

Books reviewed: Industrial Relations in Central and Eastern Europe: Transformation and Integration. A Comparison of the Eight New Member States
Heribert Kohl and Hans‐Wolfgang Platzer (eds)
ETUI, 2004, 422 pp., ‰27.00 Union Organisation and Activity
John Kelly and Paul Willman (eds)
Routledge, 2004, xvi + 187 pp., £65.00 (hardback), £25.00 (paperback) Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions
Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith (eds)
Routledge, 2002, xv + 320 pp., £70.00     

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Books reviewed: Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, and John McIlroy, British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics Vol I: The Post‐War Compromise, 1945–64. Vol II: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964–79 Jack Eaton, Comparative Employment Relations Robert Taylor, The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism Stephen Bach, Lorenzo Bordogna, Guiseppe Della Rocca and David Winchester, (eds) Public Service Employment Relations in Europe: Transformation, modernization or inertia?     

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Book review in this article: The Dynamics of Employee Relations Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull Banking on Flexibility: A comparison of flexible employment in retail banking in Britain and France Jacqueline O'Reilly New Impacts on Industrial Relations S. Tokunage, N. Altmann, and H. Demes (Eds) Managing Human Resources and Industrial Relations John Storey and Keith Sisson Managing Reward Systems Michael Armstrong Human Resource Management: Key Concepts and Skills P. B. Beaumont Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice John Bratton and Jeffrey Gold Stress in Academic Life—The Mental Assembly Line Shirley Fisher Trade Unions in the European Union: A Handbook Wolfgang Lecher (Ed) Labour Law and Freedom: Further Essays in Labour Law Lord Wedderburn Employment Law Christopher Waud Essentials of Employment Law David Lewis Trade Unions, Employers and the Law Gillian Morris and Timothy Archer     

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Ballots and Trade Union Democracy: Roger Undy and Roderick Morton, Innovation and Management Control: Labour Relations at BL Cars: Paul Willman and Graham Winch, Dismissed: A Study of Unfair Dismissal and the Industrial Tribunal System: L. Dickens, M. Jones, B. Weekes and M. Hart. The Law of Unfair Dismissal (2nd Edition): Steven D. Anderman, Unions and Economic Crisis: Britain, West Germany and Sweden: P. Gourevitch, A. Martin, G. Ross, S. Bornstein, A. Markovits and C. Allen. Allen and Unwin Skilled Workers in the Class Structure: Roger Penn, Capitalism, Class Conflict and the New Middle Class: Robert Carter, Routledge and Kegan Paul, Managing Workforce Reduction: M. Cross (ed), Groom Helm, Redundancy in the 1980s: A. Gordon, Gower, Industrial Relations and the Law in the 1980s: Issues and Future Trends: Patricia Fosh and Craig R. Littler (eds), Fighting Closures: De-industrialization and the Trade Unions 1979–83: Hugo Levie, Denis Gregory and Nick Lorentzen (Eds.) The Awkward Warrior, Frank Cousins: His Life and Times: Geoffrey Goodman,     

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The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party Lewis Minkin Trade Unions in British Politics–the first 200 years Ben Pimlott and Chris Cook (eds.) The Permanent Revolution? Conservative Law and the Trade Unions John McIlroy Taming the Trade Unions: a Guide to the Thatcher Government's Employment Reforms, 1980–1990 , Charles G. Hanson Industrial Sociology and Economic Crisis John Eldridge, Peter Cressey and John MacInnes Making their Way, Education, Training and the Labour Market in Canada and Britain D. Ashton and G. Lowe (eds.) Training and its Alternatives D. Gleeson (ed.) Working Together: Labour-management cooperation in training and in technological and other changes Alan Gladstone and Muneto Ozaki, (eds.) Training for Older People: A Handbook Peter C. Plett and Brenda T. Lester Vulnerable Workers: psychosocial and legal issues , Marilyn J. Davidson and Jill Earnshaw (eds.) Business and Politics: A Comparative Introduction , (2nd. edn.) Graham K. Wilson Industrial Relations at Work: The Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey Callus R., Morehead A., Cully M and Buchanan J. Comparative Industrial Relations: Contemporary Research and Theory Roy J. Adams (ed.) A Handbook of Dispute Resolution–ADR in Action Karl J. Mackie Negotiation from Theory to Practice Jacques Rojot The Mediator Revisited: Profile of a Profession 1960s and 1985 Ruth F. Necheles-Jansyn Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialised Market Economies Roger Blanpain (General Editor)     

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Books reviewed: William Brown, Simon Deakin, Maria Hudson, Cliff Pratten and Paul Ryan, The Individualization of Employment Contracts in Britain Lei Delsen and Eelke de JongThe German and Dutch Economies: Who Follows Whom? John P. Tuman and John T. Morris (eds.), Transforming the Latin American Automobile Industry: Unions, Workers and the Politics of Restructuring Theo NicholsThe Sociology of Industrial Injury Ian Proctor and Maureen PadfieldYoung Adult Women, Work and Family: Living a Contradiction Jack Barbash and Noah M. Meltz (eds.), Theorizing in Industrial Relations—Approaches and Applications     

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A Restatement of Economic Liberalism Samuel Brittan Macmillan Japanese Style Management Transferred: The Experience of East Asia K. John Fukuda Routledge Japanese Management in America and Britain Donald Duncan Gordon Gower The Japanization of British Industry Nick Oliver Barry Wilkinson The Finances of British Trade Unions 1975–1985 Paul Willman Industrial Relations in Small Firms—Small Isn’t Beautiful Al Rainnie Routledge Managers of Discontent: Trade Union Officers and Industrial Relations Managers Diane Watson Routledge Recruitment and Selection in the Labour Market Paul Windolf and Stephen Wood Gower Safety at work: the limits of self-regulation Sandra Dawson, Paul Willman, Martin Bamford and Alan Clinton Debating Coal Closures: Economic Calculation in the Coal Dispute 1984–5 David Cooper and Trevor Hopper Helping the Unemployed Professional Roland Pearson and Anne Heyno Wiley Incompressible Unemployment John Naylor and Barbara Senior Avebury The Individual in the Economy: A Survey of Economic Psychology Stephen E. G. Lea, Roger M. Tarpy Financial and Economic Analysis of Enterprises Karl Hedderwick     

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A Bibliography of British Industrial Relations 1971–1979 G.S. Bain, J.D. Bennett Industrial Relations: an International and Comparative Bibliography John Bennett and Julian Fawcett Employee Relations Bibliography and Abstracts Arthur Marsh Innovation and the Auto Industry: Product, Process and Work Organization R. Whipp and P. Clark Trade Unions and Politics Ken Coates and Tony Topham Just Managing: Authority and Democracy in Industry Peter Cressey, John Eldridge and John MacInnes Women Managers: Travellers in a Male World Judi Marshall A Development Programme for Women in Management Mike Smith, Kay Smith Eddie Wood, Lynne Davidson, Sandra Langrish and Christine Mogridge The Social History of Occupational Health Paul Weindling (ed.)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Labour Legislation and Public Policy: A Contemporary History Paul Davies and Mark Freedland The Nissan Enigma: Flexibility at Work in a Local Economy P. Garrahan and P. Stewart Mansell Negotiation: Strategies for Mutual Gain Lavinia Hall (Ed) British Industrial Relations Howard Gospel and Gill Palmer Routledge Attending to Work: The Management of Attendance and Shopfloor Order. Paul Edwards and Colin Whitston Industrial Relations and European State Traditions Colin Crouch Industrial Relations Theory: its nature, scope, and pedagogy Roy J. Adams and Noah M. Meltz (eds) Contested Domains Robin Cohen Towards Social Adjustment Guy Standing and Victor Tokman Industrial Training in a Cold Climate. An Assessment of Britain's Training Policies Peter Senker Trade Unions: The Thatcher years—Ten Years of The Jim Conway Foundation Annual Memorial Lecture 1981–1990 , Jim Conway     

Bookshelf 2002

Books reviewed in this article: Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Jelle Visser Macmillan, Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 Andrew Martin and George Ross (eds), The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium G. Fajertag and P. Pochet (eds), Social Pacts in Europe–New Dyamics Roger Zegers de Beijl (ed.), Documenting Discrimination against Migrant Workers in the Labour Market: a Comparative Study of Four European Countries     

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Books review in this article: Human Resource Management: A Critical Text John Storey (Ed.) The Future of the Trade Unions Robert Taylor Human Resource Management In Europe Paul S. Kirkbride (Ed.)     

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Books reviewed: Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise?
Susan Fernie and David Metcalf (eds)
Routledge, 2005, 268 pp., £21.99
Reviewed by Miguel Martinez Lucio
University of Bradford School of Management, UK Development of Culture, Welfare States and Women’s Employment in Europe
Birgit Pfau‐Effinger
Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004, 217 pp., £49.95
Reviewed by Maria Hudson
Policy Studies Institute, UK Strategic Unionism and Partnership. Boxing or Dancing?
Tony Huzzard, Denis Gregory and Regan Scott (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xxiii + 362 pp., £55.00
Reviewed by Mark Stuart
University of Leeds, UK Labour Laws and Global Trade
Bob Hepple
Hart Publishing, 2005, 328 pp., £20.00
Reviewed by A. C. L. Davies
Oxford University, UK How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan
Kathleen Thelen
Cambridge University Press, 2004, 239 pp., £50.00
Reviewed by Irena Grugulis
Bradford University School of Management, UK     

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Books reviewed: John T. Addison and Claus Schnabel (eds). International Handbook of Trade Unions
Reviewed by John Kelly Walter Müller‐Jentsch and Hansjörg Weitbrecht (eds). The Changing Contours of German Industrial Relations
Reviewed by Steve French Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin. Unions in the Time of Revolution. Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario
Reviewed by Roy J. Adams     

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Book reviewed in this article: Macmillan Directory of Multinationals (two volumes) D. C. Stafford and R. H. A. Purkis (eds.) Small Business and Society David Goss The Re-emergence of Small Enterprises W. Sengenberger, G. W. Loveman & M. J. Piore (eds) The British Trade Union Directory W. Maksymiw, Ed. Trade Union Policy and the Unemployed Paul Lewis Managing to Discriminate David L. Collinson, David Knights and Margaret Collinson Butterworths Employment Law Handbook , (5th Ed.) Peter Wallington Employer's Liability at Common Law , (11th Ed.) John Munkman Bowers on Employment Law J. Bowers Butterworths Employment Law Guide C. Osman, (Ed.) Work Organisations Paul Thompson and David McHugh The Impact of Economic Democracy Profit-Sharing and Employee Shareholding Schemes Michael Poole and Glenville Jenkins Women in the Japanese Workplace Mary Saso     

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Book reviewed in this article: Human Rights and Labour Law. Essays for Paul O'Higgins K. D. Ewing, C. A. Gearty and B. A. Hepple, (Eds) Working for the Union–British Trade Union Officers John Kelly and Edmund Heery Agenda for change: An International Analysis of Industrial Relations in Transition J. Niland and O. Clarke, Editors Labour and Industry in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from the Newly-Industrialized Countries Barry Wilkinson Comparative Industrial Relations: An Introduction to Cross-National Perspectives (2nd Edition) Ron Bean Gender and Trade Unions Elizabeth Lawrence Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender and the Seattle Labor Movement Dana Frank Youth and Work: Transition to Employment in England and Germany John Bynner and Ken Roberts (Eds) Becoming Adults in England and Germany Karen Evans and Walter R. Heinz (Eds) Regulating Employment and Welfare. Company and National Policies of Labour Force Participation at the End of Worklife in Industrial Countries Frieder Naschold and Bert de Vroom (eds) Scandinavia in a New Europe Thomas P. Boje and Sven E. Olsson Hort (eds) Craft, Class and Control Ian Roberts Union Education in Britain: a TUC activity John Holford     

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Book reviewed in this article: Bargaining Power Roderick Martin Labour Markets Under Trade Unionism: Employment, Wages and Hours Seniority Wage System in the Far East Byung Whan Kim Avebury/Gower 1992 Through Jaundiced Eyes-How the Media View Organized Labor William J. Puette; Participation in Public Policy-Making: the Role of Trade Unions and Employers' Associations Tiziano Treu (Ed.) Fordism and Flexibility: Divisions and Change . N. Gilbert, R. Burrows and A. Pollert (Eds.) Economic Democracy and Financial Participation: A comparative study Daryl D'Art, Routledge The Changing US Auto Industry: A Geographical Analysis James M. Rubenstein Routledge Feminising the Market: Women's Pay and Employment in the European Community Jane Pillinger Macmillan Dual-Earner Families: International Perspectives Suzan Lewis, Dafna N. Izraeli and Helen Hootsmans (eds.) Development in the Management of Human Resources John Storey Blackwell     

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Trade Unions and Management: Developing a Partnership Robert M. Carton Spiro Press, 2003, 143 pp., £14.95 (paperback) The Meaning of Militancy? Postal Workers and Industrial Relations Gregor Gall Ashgate, 2003, 364 pp., £55.00 (hardback) Studies in Labour Markets and Industrial Relations Mario Baldassarri and Bruno Chiarini (eds) Palgrave, 2003, 297 pp., £55.00 (hardback) The Future of the American Labor Movement Hoyt N. Wheeler Cambridge University Press, 2002, 257 pp., £18.99 (paperback)     

BOOK REVIEWS

COMMUNICATIONS The Art of Communication. By A. C. Leyton The Speech Writing Guide. By James J. Welsh A Manager's Guide to Speaking and Listening. By J. Campbell Connelly Impromptu Speaking. By Vera Gough , Second Edition Towards Efficiency in Reading. G. Wainwright How to Use the Case Study in Training for Decision Making. By David R. Willings Case Studies in Marketing Finance and Control. By Michael Ivens and Frank Broadway CHURCH MANAGEMENT Ministry and Management. By Peter F. Rudge ECONOMICS Investments for Capacity Expansion: Size, Location and Time Phasing. Studies in the Economic Development of India. By Alan S. Manne Mathematical Reasoning in Economics and Management Science: Twelve Topics. By J. C. G. Boot Price Policies and Practices. A. Source Book of Readings. By Donald F. Mulvihill and Stephen Paranka INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY Industrial Democracy: The Sociology of Participation By Paul Blumberg Industrial Democracy and Industrial Management. By Eric Rhenman INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Industrial Relations, Comparative Aspects with particular reference to Ireland. By George F. Daly Labour Management Relations in India. By K. N. Subramanian Personnel Management in Context. By Anne Crichton Social Services in British Industry. By A. F. Young Trade Unions. By Allan Flanders INDUSTRIAL SECURITY Design for Security. By Richard J. Healy RACE RELATIONS Immigrants in Industry. By Sheila Patterson The Coloured Worker in British Industry, By Peter L. Wright RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Innovation for Profit Uncertainty in Research Management and New Product Development. Edited by Raymond M. Hainer , Sherman Kingsbury and David B. Gleicher Handbook of Industrial Research Management. Edited by Carl Heyel , 2nd Edition SOCIOLOGY The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour. I. By John H. Goldthorpe , David Lockwood , Frank Bechnofer , Jennifer Platt The Affluent Worker: Political Attitudes and Behaviour. 2. By John H. Goldthorpe , David Lockwood , Frank Bechnofer , Jennifer Platt The Sociology of Industry. By S. R. Parker , R. K. Brown , J. Child M. A. Smith STATISTICS Calculus for Students of Business and Management. By Bevan K. Youse and Ashford W. Stalnaker Mathematics for Accountants and Managers. By R. F. J. Dewhurst Introducing Statistics: Statistics for the social scientist, Vol. 1. By K. A. Yeomans Applied Statistics: Statistics for the social scientist. Vol. 2. By K. A. Yeomans     

Bookshelf 2005

Books reviewed: The Emergence of European Trade Unionism Jean‐Louis Robert, Antoine Prost and Chris Wrigley (eds) Ashgate, 2004, 254 pp., £49.50
Reviewed by Ralph Darlington
University of Salford Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States Gerda Falkner, Oliver Treib, Mirian Hartlapp and Simone Leiber CUP, 2005, 404 pp., £45.00 (hardback), £19.99 (paperback)
Reviewed by Brian Towers
University of Nottingham European Integration and Industrial Relations: Multi‐level Governance in the Making Paul Marginson and Keith Sisson Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 360 pp., £60.00 (hardback)
Reviewed by Tony Royle
National University of Ireland, Galway The Future of Work in Europe Paul Littlewood, Ignace Glorieux and Ingrid Jonsson (eds) Ashgate, 2004, 262 pp., £45.00
Reviewed by Paul Teague
Queen's University, Belfast     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Industrial Relations Practices of Foreign-Owned Firms in Britain Peter J Buckley and Peter Enderwick Japanese Participation in British Industry John H Dunning Employee Consultation and Information in Multinational Corporations edited by Jacques Vandamme The Transformation of American Industrial Relations Thomas A Kochan, Harry C Katz and Robert B McKersie The Making of Labour Law in Europe edited by Bob Hepple Mansell Management and Society in Sweden Peter Lawrence and Tony Spybey Routledge and Kegan Paul The Trade Union Situation and Industrial Relations in Hungary The Trade Union Situation and Industrial Relations in Norway The Trade Union Situation and Industrial Relations in Spain The Trade Union Situation and Industrial Relations in Yugoslavia Labor-Owned Firms and Workers' Cooperatives S Jansson and A B Hellmark (eds) Towards a Democratic Rationality The Cooperative Workplace—potentials and dilemmas of organizational democracy and participation J Rothschild and J Allen Whitt Power and Performance in Organisations: An Exploration of Executive Process I Mangham Warwick Papers in Industrial Relations—School of Industrial and Business Studies, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick