Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
David Holman, Toby D. Wall, Chris W. Clegg, Paul Sparrow and Ann Howard. The New Workplace: A Guide to the Human Impact of Modern Working Practices.
Andy Danford, Mike Richardson and Martin Upchurch. New Unions, New Workplaces: A Study of Union Resilience in the Restructured Workplace.
Gregor Murray, Jacques Bélanger, Anthony Giles and Paul-André Lapointe. Work and Employment Relations in the High-Performance Workplace.
Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari and Marilyn Power. Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States.
Pete Alcock, Christina Beatty, Stephen Fothergill, Rob Macmillan and Sue Yeandle. Work to Welfare: How Men Become Detached from the Labour Market.
Steve Jefferys. Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité at Work. Changing French Employment Relations and Management.
Gregor Gall. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. Union Organizing: Campaigning for Trade Union Recognition.
Mateo Alaluf and Carlos Prieto. Collective Bargaining and the Social Construction of Employment.
Peter Boxall and John Purcell. Strategy and Human Resource Management.
Lawrence R. James and Michelle D. Mazerolle. Personality in Work Organizations.     

Selected by the Institute of Industrial Relations Liberary University of California at Berkeley

Catching the Wave: Workplace Reform in Australia. By John Mathews. Comparable Worth and Gender Discrimination: An International Perspective. By Morley Gunderson. Cooper Crucible: How the Arizona Miner's Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America. By Jonathan D. Rosenblum. Cultural Diversity in the Workplace: Issues and Strategies. By George Henderson. The Employer's Legal Handbook. By Fred S. Steingold. The Future of Industrial Relations: Global Change and Challenges. By John Niland, Chrissie Verevis, and Russell D. Lansbury. Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900–1950. By Gilbert G. Gonzalez. Labor Arbitration: An Annotated Bibliography. Edited by Charles J. Coleman and theodora T. Haynes. Labour's Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-79. By Pamela Sugiman. The Promise of Mediation: Responding to Conflict through Empowerment and Recognition. By Robert A. Baruch Bush and Joseph P. Folger. Ranbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s. By George Lipsitz. Success While Others Fail: Social Movement Unionism and the Public Workplace. By Paul Johnston. Trade Union Growth and Decline: An International Study. By Walter Galenson.     

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     

Selected by the institute of industrial Relations Libray University of California at Berkeley

Abuse in the Workplace: Management Remedies and Bottom Line Impact . By Emily S. Bassman.
Classrooms in the Workplace: Workplace Literacy Programs in Small- and Medium-Sized Firms . By Kevin Hollenbeck.
Culture, Self-Identity and Work . By Miriam Erez and P. Christopher Earley.
Cultures in Organizations: Three Perspectives . By Joanne Martin.
Eastern's Armageddon: Labor Conflict and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines . By Martha Saunders.
Employee Representation: Alternatives and Future Directions . Edited by Bruce E. Kaufman and Morris M. Kleiner.
Grand Designs: The Impact of Corporate Strategies on Workers, Unions and Communities . Edited by Charles Craypo and Bruce Nissen.
Hybrid Factory: The Japanese Production System in the United States . Edited by Tetsuo Abo.
In the Rings of Saturn . By Joe Sherman.
The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States . By Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt.     

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: Giuseppe Fajertag and Philippe Pochet, (eds.) Social Pacts in Europe: New Dynamics Peter Fairbrother, Trade Unions at the Crossroads Marino Regini, Jim Kitay and Martin Baethge, (eds.) From Tellers to Sellers: Changing Employment Relations in Banks Tony Royle, Working for McDonald’s in Europe: The Unequal Struggle? Guglielmo Meardi, Trade Union Activists, East and West: Comparisons in Multinational Companies Ruth Milkman, (ed.) Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions in Contemporary California Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Tomohiko Noda, The Economic Effects of Trade Unions in Japan Paul Gregg and Jonathan Wadsworth, (eds.) The State of Working Britain Mike Ironside and Roger Seifert, Now that your humble reviewer has got that off his chest, let us turn to what the Facing up to Thatcherism: The History of NALGO 1979–93 Michael Terry, (ed.) Redefining Public Sector Unionism: UNISON and the Future of Trade Unions K. D. Ewing, (ed.) Human Rights at Work Peter J. Frost, Arie Y. Lewin and Richard L. Daft, (eds.) Talking about Organization Science: Debates and Dialogue from Crossroads Toby L. Parcel and Daniel B. Cornfield, (eds.) Work and Family: Research Informing Policy Kate Purcell, (ed.) Changing Boundaries in Employment     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Mark Cully, Stephen Woodland, Andrew O’Reilly, and Gill Dix, Britain at Work, as Depicted by the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey Neil Millward, Alex Bryson, and John Forth, All Change at Work? British Employment Relations 1980–1998, as portrayed by the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey Series     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Alison L. Booth (ed.), The Economics of Labor Unions Wilhelm Eberwein, Jochen Tholen and Joachim Schuster, The Europeanisation of Industrial Relations: National and European Processes in Germany, UK, Italy and France Emer O’Hagan, Employee Relations in the Periphery of Europe: The Unfolding Story of the European Social Model Randy Hodson, Dignity at Work Michele Lamont, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class and Immigration Guy Van Gyes, Hans De Witte and Patrick Pasture (eds.), Can Class Still Unite? The Differentiated Work Force, Class Solidarity and Trade Unions Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith (eds.), Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions: International Perspectives Bob Hancké, Large Firms and Institutional Change: Industrial Renewal and Economic Restructuring in France Huw Beynon, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Kevin Ward, Managing Employment Change: The New Realities of Work Michelle Brown and John S. Heywood (eds.), Paying for Performance: An International Comparison Bob Hepple (ed.), Social and Labour Rights in a Global Context: International and Comparative Perspectives Douglas Ezzy, Narrating Unemployment     

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

Activist Unionism: The Institutional Economics of Solomon Barkin. By Donald R. Stabile
Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States with Democracy and the Free Market during the Nineteenth Century. By David Montgomery.
Collective Bargaining As an Instrument of Social Change. By David C. Jacobs.
Forging Revolution: Metalworkers, Managers, and the State in St. Petersburg, 1890–1914 . By Heather Hogan.
The Global Economic Mismatch: High Technology and Low Pay. By Henry B. Schechter.
Industrial Democracy in Europe Revisited. By the Industrial Democracy in Europe (IDE), International Research Group.
Labor and an Integrated Europe. Edited by Lloyd Ulman, Barry Eichengreen, and William T. Dickens.
A Primer on American Labor Law. Third edition. By William Gould IV.
Planning for Change: Industrial Policy and Japanese Economic Development, 1945–1990. By James Vestal.
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Managing Corporate Policy. By Julie Tamminen.
Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies . Edited by Zachary Lockman.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Origins of Trade Union Power, by Henry Phelps Brown Why are the British Bad at Munufucturing, by Karel Williams, John Williams and Dennis Thomes Strikes in Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work due to Industrial Disputes. 1948-73, by J.W. Durcan. W.E.J. McCarthy and C.P. Redman Strikes in Europe and the United States: Munugernent cind Incidence, by Kenneth Walsh. British Trade Unionism against the Trades Union Congress, by Gerald A. Dorfman Contemporary Industrial Relations in Japan, edited by T. Shirai. Understanding Industrial Relations by David Farnham & John Pimlott Kahn-Freund's Labour and the Law, by Paul Davies and Mark Freedland. International Yearbook of Organizational Democracy, Volume I, Organizational Democracy and Political Processes, edited by Colin Crouch and Frank A. Heller The Nature of Work. An Introduction to Debates on the Labour Process. by Paul Thompson. Discriminaiion and Disadvantage in Employment: The Experience of Black Workers. edited by P. Braham, E. Rhodes and M. Pearn.     

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

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

Books Reviewed
Mauro F. Guille´n, The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain
Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein and John Schmitt, The State of Working America
Lowell Turner, Harry C. Katz and Richard W. Hurd (eds), Rekindling the Movement: Labor's Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century
Richard Hyman, Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society
Franz Traxler, Sabine Blaschke and Bernhard Kittel, National Labour Relations in Internationalized Markets: A Comparative Study of Institutions, Change and Performance
Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
Noreena Hertz, The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Ralph Darlington and Dave Lyddon, Glorious Summer: Class Struggle in Britain, 1972
Alice Russell, The TUC and the Working Time Question: Policy, Action and Outcomes in Twentieth Century Britain
Saul A. Rubinstein and Thomas A. Kochan, Learning from Saturn
Bruce E. Kaufman and Daphne Gottlieb Taras (eds), Nonunion Employee Representation
John Mangan, Workers without Traditional Employment: An International Study of Non–Standard Work
Linda Clarke, Peter de Gijsel and Jo¨rn Janssen (eds), The Dynamics of Wage Relations in the New Europe
Aileen McColgan, Discrimination Law: Text, Cases and Materials     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Road to Nissan - Flexibiliry Quality Teamwork by Peter Wickens.
Changes In Working Time: An International Review by Paul Blyton.
The Reform of Workplace Industrial Relations: Theory, Myth and Evidence by Eric Batstone.
Trade Union Democracy, Members' Rights and The Law by Patrick Elias and Keith Ewing.
The Law of Industrial Conflict by Edward Benson
Learning about Risk: Consumer and Workers Responses to Hazard Information , by Kip Viscusi and Wesley Magat
Understanding Industrial Relations in Modern Japan by Kazuo Koike.
Personality in Industry by Hiroshi Tanaka.
Inside the Firm: the Inefficiencies of Hierarchy by Harvey Leibenstein
Doing Research In Organizations edited by Alan Bryman.
Women in the Administrative Revolution by Graham Lowe.
Handbook of Labour Economics, Volumes I and 11 Orley Ashenfelter and Richard Layard.
Microelectronics, Automation and Employment in the Automobile Industry edited by S. Watanabe. John Wiley and Sons     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: David Coates. Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era. David Coates. Models of Capitalism: Debating Strengths and Weaknesses: Volume 1, Capitalist Models: Divergence and Convergence; Volume 2, Capitalist Models under Challenge; Volume 3, The Ascendancy of Liberal Capitalism Peter Ackers and Adrian Wilkinson. Understanding Work & Employment: Industrial Relations in Transition. Gregory K. Dow. Governing the Firm: Workers’ Control in Theory and Practice. Mario Baldassarri. How to Reduce Unemployment in Europe. Paul Edwards. Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice. Richard N. Block, Karen Roberts and R. Oliver Clarke. W. E. Labour Standards in the United States and Canada. Charlotte Rayner, Helge Hoel and Gary Cooper. Workplace Bullying: What We Know, Who Is to Blame, and What Can We Do? Ståle Einarsen, Helge Hoel, Dieter Zapf and Cary L. Cooper. Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace: International Perspectives in Research and Practice Michael Hogg and Deborah J. Terry. Social Identity Processes in Organizational Contexts Gabrielle Meagher. Friend or Flunkey? Paid Domestic Workers in the New Economy     

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

Books reviewed: Gallie, Duncan, White, Michael, Cheng, Yan and Tomlinson, Mark Restructuring the Employment Relationship Tilly, Chris and Tilly, Charles Work under Capitalism Rees, Teresa Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union: Education, Training and Labour Market Policies Wajcman, Judy Managing Like a Man: Women and Men in Corporate Management Perrson, Inga and Jonung, Christina (eds) Women’s Work and Wages Brewster, Chris and Harris, Hilary (eds) International HRM: Contemporary Issues in Europe Heller, Frank, Pusic, Eugene, Strauss, George and Wilpert, Bernhard Organizational Participation: Myth and Reality Neumann, Jean, Kellner, Kamil and Dawson‐Shepherd, Andraea (eds) Developing Organisational Consultancy Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT) Australia at Work: Just Managing?     

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:
Beyond Contract: Work, Power and Trust Relations by Allan Fox. Faber & Faber
The Next Twenty-Five Years of Industrial Relations edited by Gerald G. Somers
Piecework Bargaining by William Brown
Workplace Industrial Relations 1972 by Stanley Parker
Trade Unionism by J. A. Banks
Workers on the Move: the sociology of relocation by Michael Mann
Manpower Planning Models edited by D. J. Clough
The Role of Trade Unions in the Development Process, With a Case Study of Ghana by Ukandi Godwin Damachi
Flexible Working Hours: a case study by Derek Summers
Cloth Cap and After by Innis Macbeath
The Politics of Organisational Decision-making by ANDREW M. PETTIGREW
Management and Morality: The Problems and Opportunities of Social Capitalism by JOHN ADAIR. David & Charles     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Labour Law-text and Materials, by Paul Davies and Mark Friedland
The Law of Redundancy, by Cyril Grunfeld
Hepple and O'Higginr Employment Law, by B. A. Hepple
Trade Union Low, by Richard Kidner
Differentials for Managers and Skilled Manual Workers in the United Kingdom, by Michael P. Fogarty and Eileen
Economic Change and Employment Policy, edited by Robert M. Lindley
The Economics of Women and Work, edited by Alice H. Amsden.
'Occupational Segregation: A Comparative Study of the Degree and Pattern of the Differentials between Men and Women's Work in Britain, the United States and Other Countries', by Catherine Hakim
Disadvantaged Groups on the Labour Market and Measures 10 Assist Them, by Harish C. Jain
Labor Economics: Choice in Labor Markets, by Don Bellante and Mark Jackson Worker's
Capital and Labour: Studies in the Capitalist Labour Process, edited by Theo Nichols
Women at Work, The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell. Massachusetts, 1826 1860, by Thomas Dublin
Workers and Employers: DocwnenLs on Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Britain Since the Eighteenth Cenrury, edited by J. T. Ward and W. Hamish Fraser
Masters and Journeymen: A Prehistory of Industrial Relations 1717–1800, by C. R. Dobson
Transition to Workers' Self- Management: Its Dynamics in the Decolonizing Economy of Malta. by Gerhard Kester
Responses to Participation at Work: A Study of the Attitudes and Behaviour of Employees, Shop Stewards and Managers in a Manufacturing Industry. by Mick Marchington
Co-Determination in Business: Workers' Representatives in the Board Room. by Robert J. Kühne
The Denigration of Capiralbm. edited by Michael Novak.
International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations, Editor in Chief Dr Roger Blanpain