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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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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: 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.)     

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Books review in this article: Managing Performance Appraisal Systems Gordon C. Anderson The Handbook of Human Resource Management Brian Towers (Editor) Principles of Human Resource Management David Goss Human Resource Management: Key Concepts and Skills P.B. Beaumont Designing Organizations: A Decision Perspective Richard Butler Employment Relations: Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management In Australia Margaret Gardner and Gill Palmer Human Resource Management In Europe Shaun Tyson, Peter Lawrence, Phillipe Poirson, Luigi Manzolini and Ceferi Soler Vicente (Editors) Managing Learning In Organizations D. Casey     

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Paying for the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain’s Offshore Oil Industry. Charles Woolfson, John Foster and Matthias Beck Managing The Unions — The impact of legislation on trade unions’ behaviour. Roger Undy, Patricia Fosh, Huw Morris, Paul Smith and Roderick Martin One Big Union: A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886–1994. Mark Hearn and Harry Knowles The European Labour Market. Nick J. Adnett Restructuring Krakow: Desperately Seeking Capitalism,. Employment and Work Relations in Context Series, Jane Hardy and Al Rainnie L’État des relations professionnelles_Traditions et perspectives de recherche. G. Murray, M.–L. Morin and I. Da Costa Regional Integration and Industrial Relations in North America. Maria Lorena Cook and Harry C. Katz (eds) Human Resource Management; Rhetorics and Realities. Karen Legge The Politics of Empowerment. Peter McLaverty     

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Book reviewed in this article: Privatisation and Employment Relations: The Case of the Water Industry Julia O'Connell Davidson Mansell The Trade Union Question in British Politics Robert Taylor Trade Union Behaviour, Pay Bargaining and Economic Performance Robert J. Flanagan, Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein Dock Strike: Conflict and Restructuring in Britain's Ports Peter Turnbull, Charles Woolfson and John Kelly Avebury/Gower Building the union: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic Immigrants in the Rise of the UAW Union Business: Trade Union Organisation and Financial Reform in the Thatcher Years P. Willman, T. Morris and B. Aston Power and Profit: Politics, Labour and Business in South Africa Duncan Innis, Matthew Kentridge, Helene Perold, (Eds.) Japanization At Work John Bratton Retraining - not Redundancy: Innovative approaches to industrial restructuring in Germany and France Gerhard Bosch International Institute for Labour Studies Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Great Britain (2nd Ed.) Bob Hepple and Sandra Fredman Industrial Law (5th edition) I T Smith; John C Wood Labour Law: Management Decisions and Workers' Right     

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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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Inside Japan–Wealth Work and Power in the New Japanese Empire Peter Tasker Managing Owners: The National Freight Consortium in Perspective K. Bradley and A. Nejad Sharing the Success: the Story of NFC Sir Peter Thompson The Political Economy of Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice in a Cold Climate Richard Hyman Beyond the Workplace: Managing Industrial Relations in the Multi-Establishment Enterprise . Paul Marginson, P. K. Edwards, Roderick Martin, John Purcell and Keith Sisson New Perspectives on Human Resource Management John Storey (ed.) Precarious Jobs in Labour Market Regulation G. and J. Rodgers (Eds.) A Secretary and a Cook, Challenging Women's Wages in the Courts of the United States and Great Britain Steven I. Willborn Change in Industrial Relations P. B. Beaumont Changing Patterns of Employee Relations Mick Marchington and Philip Parker Industrial Relations Strategies M. W. Nuttall     

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Books review in this article: Intervention In Occupational Stress: A Handbook of Counselling For Stress At Work Randall R. Ross and Elizabeth M. Altmaier Managing Human Resources and Industrial Relations John Storey and Keith Sisson Shaping Strategic Change, Making Change In Large Organizations, the Case of the National Health Service A. Pettigrew, E. Ferlie and L. McKee Attending to Work: the Management of Attendance and Shopfloor Order Paul Edwards and Colin Whitston Trade Unions: the Thatcher Years. Ten Years of the Jim Conway Foundation Annual Memorial Lecture 1981–1990 Stockton on Tees     

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Striking Out Strikes: Changing Employment Relations in the British Labour Market C. G. Hanson and G. Mather Technical Workers: Class, Labour and Trade Unions Chris Smith Strategies, Issues and Events in Industrial Relations: Disclosure of Information in Context J. Jackson-Cox, J. McQueeny The British Worker Question Theo Nichols Routledge & Kegan Paul Teacher Militancy: A History of Teacher Strikes 1896-1987 Roger V. Seifert     

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Littler, C. R. The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies
Buchanan, D.A. and Boddy, D. Organisations in the Computer Age
Wood, S. and Dey, I. Redundancy: Case Studies in Cooperation and Conflict
Williams, K., Williams, J. and Thomas, D. Why are the British Bad at Manufacturing
White, M. and Trevor, M. Under Japanese Management. The Experience of British Workers
Marchington, M. Managing Industrial Relations
Daniel, W. W. and Millward, N. Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain
Mayhew, K. Trade Unions and the Labour Market
Juch, B. Personal Development: Theory and Practice in Management Training
Pedler, M. (ed.) Action Learning in Practice     

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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.)     

BOOK NOTES

PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: A Guide to Manpower Planning: A. M. Bowey PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: The Personnel Management Process—human resources administration (3rd ed.): W. French PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Personnel Management and Organisation Development: fields in transition: W. L. French D. Hellriegel. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Planning for Human Resources: L. Margerison D. Ashton (ed.) PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Organisation of Management Development Programmes: D. S. Markwell T. J. Roberts. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Personnel Management in Hospitals: G. Millard. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Personnel Planning and Occupational Choice: S. Timperley. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Problems and Policies in Personnel Management—a case book (2nd ed.): J. W. Towle S. M. Schoen R. L. Higgert. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Occupational Choice. A selection from The Sociological Review: W. M. Williams, ed. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Participation in Management: Industrial democracy in three Western European Countries: W. Albeda, ed. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Worker Participation and Collective Bargaining in Europe Commission on Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Worker Participation: individual control and performance: D. Guest D. Fatchett INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Working Power: policies for industrial democracy: G. Radice, ed. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Worker Participation in Britain Social Policy Research Ltd. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Workers' Management and Workers' Wages in Yugoslavia—the theory and practice of participatory socialism: H. M. Wachtel TRADE UNIONS: Social Stratification and Trade Unionism: G. Bain D. Coates V. Ellis. TRADE UNIONS: Trade Unionism: J. A. Banks TRADE UNIONS: Trade Unions and Society—the struggle for acceptance, 1850–1880: W. M. Fraser. TRADE UNIONS: The First Shop Stewards Movement: J. Hinton TRADE UNIONS: The Union of Post Office Workers—a study in political sociology: M. Moran TRADE UNIONS: Political Purpose in Trade Unions: I. Richter TRADE UNIONS: Labour: the Unions and the Party—study of the trade unions and the British Labour movement: B. Simpson TRADE UNIONS: White-Collar workers and the U.A.W. C. D. Synder THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: The Multinational Company in Europe—some key problems: M. Z. Brooke H. L. Remmers (ed.) THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Multinational Corporations and National Government. A case study of the United Kingdom's experience 1964–1970: M. Hodges THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: MuItinational Enterprises and Social Policy THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: American Labour and the Multinational Corporation: O. Kujawa, ed. THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: International Business and Multinational Enterprises: S. H. Robock K. Simmonds THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Multinational Business: V. Salera THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Managing the Multinational Enterprise: Organisation of the firms and ownership of the subsidiaries: J. M. Stopford L. T. Well, Jr. INCOME DISTRIBUTI0N: Unequal Shares: wealth in Britain: A. B. Atkinson INCOME DISTRIBUTI0N: Low Pay and How to End it—a union review: A. Fisher B. Dix. INCOME DISTRIBUTI0N: Poverty, Inequality and Class Structure: A. Wedderburn, ed. INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Measurements of Labour Disputes and their Economic Effects: M. Fisher INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Strikes and Industrial Conflict: Britain and Scandinavia: G. K. Ingham. INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Strike—A live history 1887–1971: R. A. Leeson. INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Case Studies in Industrial Law and Relations: J. Ritson BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Unfair Dismissal and the Law: S. D. Anderman BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Pay and Price Control Guide: B. Bracewell-Milnes BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: The Industrial Relations Act—a comprehensive guide: C. Crabtree. BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Industrial Tribunals—a practical guide: R. M. Greenhalgh. BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Industrial Relations: R. C. Simpson J. C. Wood. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Managing the Health Service: S. C. Haywood. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Management by Objectives in Local Government: J. W. Glendinning R. E. M. Bullock. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: General Review of Conditions of Employment of Public Services: International Labour Organisation. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Career Problems in the Public Service: International Labour Organisation. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Staff Relations in the Civil Service—fifty years of Whitleyism: M. Parris. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Public Employee Unionism: Structure, growth, policy Studies of Unionism in Government: J. Stieber PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: The Unions and the Cities. Studies of unionism in government: H. M. Wellington R. K. Winter, Jr. COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: Japanese Blue Collar-the changing tradition R. E. Cole COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: African Railwaymen: solidarity and opposition in an East African labour force R. D. Grillo COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: The Aristocracy of Labourthe position of the skilled craftsman in the American class structure G. MacKenzie COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: The Ghanaian Factory Worker: Industrial Man in Africa M. Peil     

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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     

Book Reviews

Books review in this article: Human Resource Strategy: Towards A General Theory of Human Resource Management Shaun Tyson Analysing Learning Needs Malcolm Craig, Phd. Enterprise Without Unions: – Industrial Relations In the Nonunion Firm Ian Mcloughlin and Stephen Gourlay Gender Inequality At Work Jerry A. Jacobs (Ed) The People Side of Project Management Ralph Kliem and Irwin Ludin     

Book Reviews

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.)     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Human Resource Management. Perspectives for the New Era, Colin Fisher Social and Economic Transformation in East Central Europe: Institutions, Property Relations and Social Interests, Roderick Martin Trade Unions at the Crossroads, Guy Vernon Employment Relations and National Culture: Continuity and Change in the Age of Globalisation, Boyd Black     

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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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The Crisis of Labour: Industrial Relations and the State in Contemporary Britain David Coates Philip Allan Manufacturing Change: Industrial Relations and Restructuring Stephanie Tailby and Colin Whitston The Competitiveness of European Industry Arthur Francis and P. K. M. Tharakan Routledge Managing People at Work Peter Makin, Cary Cooper and Charles Cox Strikes Richard Hyman Macmillan The Seamen—a history of the National Union of Seamen Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan Malthouse Crisis in the French Labour Movement: A Grassroot's Perspective W. Rand Smith Macmillan Individual Employment Law Barry Titman and Peter Camp