Book reviews

Books reviewed: The Employment Relationship: Examining Psychological and Contextual Perspectives
J. A. M. Coyle‐Shapiro, L. M. Shore, S. M. Taylor and L. E. Tetrick (eds)
Oxford University Press, 2004, 377 pp., £55.00
Reviewed by Melanie Simms
University of Kent International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and the Developed Market Economies
Greg J. Bamber, Russell D. Lansbury and Nick Wailes (eds)
Sage Publications, 2004 (4th edn), 472 pp., £75.00 (hardback), £24.99 (paperback)
Reviewed by Sarah Pass
Cardiff University Multinational Companies and Global Human Resource Strategies
William N. Cooke (ed.)
Quorum, 2003, 433 pp., £48.50
Reviewed by Trevor Colling
University of Warwick     

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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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Book reviewed Dock Workers: International Explorations in Comparative Labour History
Sam Davis, Colin J. Davis, David de Vries, Lex Heerma van Voss, Lidewij Hesselink and Klaus Weinhauer (eds)
Ashgate, 2000, 863 pp., £75 (hardback, 2 volumes) Labored Relations: Law, Politics and the NLRB—A Memoir
William B. Gould IV
MIT Press, 2000, 474 pp., £27.50 Trade Unions and Global Governance. The Debate on a Social Clause
Gerda van Roozendal
Continuum, 2002, 260 pp., £75.00 (hardback), £25.00 (paperback) Organized Labour in the 21^st Century
A.V. Jose (ed.)
International Institute for Labour Studies, 2002, xii + 406 pp., 120     

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     

Book reviews

Book reviewed Partnership and the High Performance Workplace: Work and Employment Relations in the Aerospace Industry
Andy Danford, Mike Richardson, Paul Stewart, Stephanie Tailby and Martin Upchurch
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 263 pp., £55.00
Reviewed by Peter Samuel
Nottingham University Business School Participation and Democracy at Work: Essays in Honour of Harvie Ramsay
Jeff Hyman, Paul Thompson and Bill Harley
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 272 pp., £26.99 (paperback)
Reviewed by Brian Towers
Nottingham University Business School Adding Value through Information and Consultation
John Storey (ed.)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 293 pp., £28.99
Reviewed by Alan Tuckman
Nottingham Trent University Workplace Justice without Unions
Hoyt N. Wheeler, Brian S. Klass and Douglas M. Mahony
UpJohn Institute, 2004, 231 pp., $40.00 (hardback), $18.00 (paperback)
Reviewed by David G. Collings
University of Sheffield     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Decentralised Pay Setting: A Study of the Outcomes of Collective Bargaining Reforms in the Civil Service in Australia, Sweden and the UK
K. A. Bender and R. F. Elliott
Ashgate, 2003, xii + 160 pp., £50.00 A Very Late Development: An Autobiography
Alan Fox
British Universities Industrial Relations Association, 2nd and revised edition, 2004, 306 pp., £8.00 (paperback) Unions in the 21st Century: An International Perspective
Anil Verma and Thomas A. Kochan (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 296 pp., £50.00 The Management of Human Resources in the Asia Pacific Region: Convergence Reconsidered
Chris Rowley and John Benson (eds)
Cass (Studies in Asia Pacific Business), 2004, 208 pp., £18.99     

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Books reviewed: Managing to Change? British Workplaces and the Future of Work
Michael White, Stephen Hill, Colin Mills and Deborah Smeaton
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 214 pp., £52.50 (hardback)
Reviewed by Chris Forde
University of Leeds The New Managerialism and Public Service Professions
Ian Kirkpatrick, Stephen Ackroyd and Richard Walker
Palgrave, 2005, 232 pp., £50.00 (hardback)
Reviewed by Kim Hoque
Nottingham University Business School Culture and the Labour Market
Siobhan Austen
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003, 168 pp., £45.00
Reviewed by Martin Leroch
University of Hamburg Inside the Workplace: First Findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey
Barbara Kersley, Carmen Alpin, John Forth, Alex Bryson, Helen Bewley, Gill Dix and Sarah Oxenbridge
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), 2005, 41 pp., Free, available from DTI
Reviewed by Andrew Pendleton
University of York The Wales TUC, 1974–2004
Joe England
University of Wales Press, 2004, 136 pp., £12.99
Reviewed by Brian Towers
University of Nottingham     

book reviews

BRITISH MANAGEMENT VERSUS GERMAN MANAGEMENT by Jean Millar Saxon House, 1979, 72 pp., £5.75 THE APPROACH TO INDUSTRIAL CHANGE IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY by E. Jacobs, S. Orwell, P. Paterson and F. Weltz Anglo-German Foundation, 1978, 130 pp. £10.00 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE COAL INDUSTRY by B. J. McCormick Macmillan Press, 1979, pp. 263, £15.00 TOWARDS A POST-INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY by D. Manikin New York, Wiley, 1978, xv + 212 pp., £6.65 (paperback) SABOTAGE: A STUDY IN INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT by Geoff Brown Spokesman Books, 1977, 396 pp., £8.50 SABOTAGE IN INDUSTRY by Pierre Dubois (translated by Rosemary Sheed) Pelican Books, 1979, 224 pp., £1.25 PROFIT SHARING, EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP, SAVINGS AND ASSET FORMATION PLANS IN THE WESTERN WORLD Geoffrey W. Latta University of Pennsylvania, 1979 192 pp., £15.00 (paperback) PROFIT SHARING: LEGAL ASPECTS OF EMPLOYEE SHARE SCHEMES Geoffrey Morse and David Williams Sweet & Maxwell, 1979 224 pp., £7.50 paperback     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: The Skills That Matter
Chris Warhurst, Irena Grugulis and Ewart Keep (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xv + 272 pp., £23.99
Reviewed by Kim Hoque
Nottingham University Business School Fragmenting Work: Blurring Organizational Boundaries and Disordering Hierarchies
Mick Marchington, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Hugh Willmott (eds)
Oxford University Press, 2005, 319 pp., £22.50
Reviewed by Ian Kirkpatrick
Leeds University Business School Employment Relations and the Health Service: The Management of Reforms
Stephen Bach
Routledge, 2004, 239 pp., £65.00
Reviewed by Geoff White
University of Greenwich Working in the Twenty‐first Century
Michael Moynagh and Richard Worsley
ESRC and The Tomorrow Project, 2005, 196 pp., £20.00
Reviewed by Brian Towers
University of Nottingham     

Book Reviews

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     

Book reviews

Book reviewed The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
Dorothy Sue Cobble
Princeton University Press, 2005, 336 pp., £12.95
Reviewed by Sue Ledwith
Ruskin College, UK Work–Life Balance in the 21st Century
Diane Houston (ed.)
Palgrave, 2005, 288 pp., £50.00
Reviewed by Gill Kirton
Queen Mary, University of London, UK The Work/Life Collision: What Work is Doing to Australians and What to Do About It
Barbara Pocock
Federation Press, 2003, 304 pp., A$35.00
Reviewed by Geraldine Healy
Queen Mary, University of London, UK Gender Equality and Decent Work––Good Practices at the Workplace
Bureau for Gender Equality
ILO, 2005, ix + 121 pp., £10.95
Reviewed by Geraldine Healy
Queen Mary, University of London, UK Gender Roles and Sex Equality: European Solutions to Social Security Disputes
Ingeborg Heide
ILO, 2004, xi + 117 pp., £11.95
Employers’ Organisations Taking the Lead on Gender Equality
Bureau for Employers’ Activities
ILO, 2005, iii + 85 pp., £10.95
Reviewed by Harriet Bradley
University of Bristol, UK     

Evolving Game Theory

Jörgen W. Weibull (1995) Evolutionary Game Theory. MIT Press. £18.50 $30 xv+265 pp. Ken Binmore, Alan Kirman and Piero Tani (eds) (1993) Frontiers of Game Theory. MIT Press. £40.50 $47.50 350 pp.     

‘Meeting need: Successful charity marketing’

Ian Bruce (ICSA/Prentice Hall (Charities Management Series), Hemel Hempstead, UK; 1994; ISBN 1 872860 58 3; 292 pp; paperback; £17.95; hot line ordering No. +1442 881883)     

Books Reviews

Williamson, O. E. (Ed.). Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond, Expanded Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. pp. 268, £14.50 pb (Michael Rowlinson). Boisot, Max H. Information Space. A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. pp. 550, ISBN 0-415-11490-X (Nathalie N. Mitev). Tweedale, Geoffrey. Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Technology in Sheffield 1743--1993. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. pp. xiv, 436 (Elisabeth Wilson). Orlikowski, Wanda, J., Walsham, Geoff, Jones, Matthew R. and Degross, Janice, I. (Eds). Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work. London: Chapman Hall, 1996. pp. 443, ISBN 0-412-64010-4 (Richard Hull). Scrivens, Ellie. Accreditation: Protecting the Professional or the Consumer? Buckingham: Open University Press (Jenny Lodge).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Global Japanisation?: The Transformation of the Labour Process Tony Elger & Chris Smith (Eds.) Organized Labor in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Comparative Study of Trade Unions in Nine Countries Stephen Frenkel (Ed.) Human Resource Management on the Pacific Rim: Institutions, Practices and Attitudes Larry F. Moore and P. Devereaux Jennings (Eds.) Management in China during the Age of Reform John Child Industrial Restructuring in Mexico: Corporate Adaptation, Technological Innovation, and Changing Patterns of Industrial Relations in Monterrey María de los Angeles Pozas. Translated by Aníbal Yáñez The Struggle for Australian Industrial Relations Braham Dabscheck Irish Industrial Relations in Practice Thomas V. Murphy and William K. Roche (Eds.)     

Book reviews

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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review in this Article Morgan , Gareth (Ed.) Beyond Method: Strategies For Social Research. Earl , Michael J. (Ed.) Perspectives On Management - A Multidisciplinary Analysis. Karabadse , Andrew The Politics of Management. Poole , M., Brown , W., Rubery , J., Sisson , K., Tarling , R. and Wilkinson , F. Industrial Relations In the Future: Trends and Possibilities In Britain Over the Next Decade. Bradley , Keith and Gelb , Alan Worker Capitalism: the New Industrial Relations. Durcan , J. W., Mccarthy , W. E. J. and Redman , G. P. Strikes In Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work Due to Industrial Disputes, 1946-73.     

Book Reviews

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)     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Industrial Relations in the New Europe A. Ferner and R. Hyman (Eds.) Bulletin of Comparative Industrial Relations. No. 23. 1992 Special Issue. Workers' Participation: Influence on Management Decision-Making by Labour in the Private Sector R. Blanpain (Ed.) Technology and Work in German Industry N. Altmann, C. Koehler and P. Meil (Eds.) Training and Enterprise Councils: The Story So Far, Policy Studies Special Issue Economic Decline in Modern Britain: The Shipbuilding Industry, 1890–1970 Edward H. Lorenz The Evolution of Public Management: Concepts and Techniques for the 1990s Colin Duncan (Ed.) The Wapping Dispute Suellen M. Littleton Unfair Dismissal Malcolm Mead Longman Justice in Dismissal Hugh Collins Clarendon Press Life and work history analyses: Qualitative and quantitative developments S. Dex (Ed.) Women and Japanese Management: Discrimination and Reform Alice Lam Routledge     

Book Reviews

Books review in this article: The Control of Industrial Relations In Large Companies: an Initial Analysis of the Second Company Level Industrial Relations Survey (Warwick Papers In Industrial Relations No.45) Paul Marginson, Peter Armstrong, Paul Edwards and John Purcell with Nancy Hubbard