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     

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     

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: 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

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     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Work and Life Integration: Organizational,Cultural, and Individual Perspectives – Edited by Ellen Ernst Kossek and Susan J. Lambert Work‐Life Balance in the 21st Century – Edited by Diane M. Houston

Books reviewed: Work and Life Integration: Organizational, Cultural, and Individual Perspectives edited by Ellen Ernst Kossek and Susan J. Lambert. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ and London, 2005, xxviii + 570 pp., ISBN 0 8058 4616 6, $42.50, paper. Work‐Life Balance in the 21st Century edited by Diane M. Houston. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2005, xv + 271 pp., ISBN 1 4039 2062 1, £50.00.     

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.     

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

Stimulating Innovation: A Systems Approach. T. Rickards, London, Frances Pinter. xi + 221 pages. MICHAEL A. WEST The Strategic Discount—Ways to an Entrepreneurial Strategy by G. J. Pearson, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester. 1985 A. WILKINSON Models For Innovation Diffusion by Vijay Mahajan and Robert A. Peterson. Sage Publications, Beverley Hills/London/New Delhi. 1985. Softback $5.00 GEORGE HAYWARD Analytical Planning—The Organisation of Systems by Thomas L. Saaty and Kevin P. Keams, Pergamon Press. 1985. Hardback £29.50 $40. DAVID SUTTON Management in Transition by Philip R. Harris. Jossey-Bass Publishers 1985 Hardback £33 00 xxvii and 404 pages. GEORGE HAYWARD Science Parks and Innovation Centres: Their Economic and Social Impact. Proceedings of the conference held in Berlin, 13–15 February 1985 edited by J. M. Gibb. Elsevier Science Publishers B. V. 1985. Hardback. US $64.75, Dfl. 175.00. ix. 477pp. Science Parks in Britain: Their role for the late 1980's by Jean Currie. CSP Economic Publications 1985. Softback £98.105pp. Britain's New Products: The AICE Report (2nd Edition) compiled and published by the Association of Innovation Centre Executives. 1986 Paperback £6.00. vii. 39pp. G. HAYWARD Introduction to Goal Programming by J. P. Ignizio, Sage University Paper, Quantitative Applications in the Social Science Series. No. 56. 1986. £4.95. C. H. ONG Human Resources Accounting—advances in concepts, methods and applications by Eric G. Framholtz. D. YEO     

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.     

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.     

Theorizing the Employment Relationship: Materialists and Institutionalists

Books reviewed: Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull. The Dynamics of Employee Relations.
Bruce E. Kaufman, editor. Theoretical Perspectives on Work and the Employment Relationship.
Reviewed by Peter Ackers Harry C. Katz, Wonduck Lee and Joohee Lee, editors. The New Structure of Labor Relations — Tripartism and Decentralization.
Reviewed by Lorenzo Bordogna Ian Fitzgerald and John Stirling, editors. European Works Councils: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will?.
Reviewed by Richard Hyman John McIlroy, Alan Campbell and Keith Gildart, editors. Industrial Politics and the 1926 Mining Lockout: The Struggle for Dignity.
Keith Gildart. North Wales Miners: A Fragile Unity, 1945–1996.
Reviewed by Richard Croucher Massimo Florio. The Great Divestiture — Evaluating the Impact of the British Privatisations 1979–1997.
Reviewed by Michael G. Pollitt Elizabeth C. Dunn. Privatizing Poland — Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor.
Reviewed by Tatjana Thelen Jonathan Brock and David B. Lipsky, editors. Going Public: The Role of Labor‐Management Relations in Delivering Quality Government Services.
Reviewed by Rebecca Kolins Givan William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder and Edward N. Wolff. Downsizing in America — Reality, Causes, and Consequences.
Reviewed by John Schmitt D. Grant, C. Hardy, C. Oswick and L. Putnam, editors. The Sage Handbook of Organizational Discourse.
Reviewed by Barbara Townley     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America Thomas A. Kochan, Cambridge: MIT Press (2005), 272 pp. $27.95/£18.95 Reviewed by Jeff Hyman University of Aberdeen
HRM and Performance: Achieving Long Term Viability Jaap Paauwe, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2004), 274 pp. £24.99 (pb) Reviewed by Stephen Procter University of Newcastle     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Joel Bakan. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power.
Reviewed by Simon Deakin Carola M. Frege and John Kelly, editors. Varieties of Unionism: Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy.
Reviewed by Dan Clawson Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz with Rafael Gomez and Ivan Katchanovski. The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More than Canadians do But Join Much Less.
Reviewed by Andy Charlwood Tony Elger and Chris Smith. Assembling Work: Remaking Factory Regimes in Japanese Multinationals in Britain.
Reviewed by Andy Danford Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley. United They Stood: The Story of the UK Firefighters’ Dispute 2002–2004.
Reviewed by Ralph Darlington Jeremy Waddington, Marcus Kahmann and Jürgen Hoffmann. A Comparison of the Trade Union Merger Process in Britain and Germany — Joining Forces?
Reviewed by Berndt Keller Robert M. Fishman. Democracy's Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain.
Reviewed by Kerstin Hamann Mick Marchington, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Hugh Willmott, editors Fragmenting Work: Blurring Organizational Boundaries and Disordering Hierarchies.
Reviewed by Mary S. Logan David Howell, editor Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy.
Reviewed by Sotiria Theodoropoulou     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Farewell to Flexibility? edited by Anna Pollert L'Atelier et le Robot by Benjamin Coriat Unemployment by Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, and Richard Jackman Mismatch and Labour Mobility, edited by Fiorella Padoa Schioppa New Developments in the Labour Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradigm edited by Katharine Abraham and Robert McKersie Technological Change and Employment: Innovation in the German Economy edited by R. Schettkat and M. Wagner Konfliktpartnerschaft: Acteure und Institutionen der Industriellen Beziehungen edited by Walter Mueller-Jentsch In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations by Cynthia Cockburn Economic Decline in Britain: The Shipbuilding Industry, 1890–1970 by Edward H. Lorenz The Management of Labor: The British and French Iron and Steel Trade Industries, 1860–1918 by Judith Eizenberg Vichniac Industrial Society and Economic Crisis by John Eldridge, Peter Cressey and John MacInnes International Handbook of Participation in Organizations, Volume II: Ownership and Participation edited by Raymond Russell and Velkjo Rus Critical Readings in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2 vols.) edited by Cary L. Cooper Negotiation: From Theory to Practice by Jacques Rojot The Climate of Workplace Relations by Ali Dastmalchian, Paul Blyton and Raymond Adamson Profit Sharing and Gain Sharing by Myron J. Roomkin     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The New Workplace and Trade Unionism: Critical Perspectives on Work and Organisation edited by Peter Ackers, Chris Smith and Paul Smith
Managing Employee Relations in the Hotel and Catering Industry by Rosemary Lucas
Productivity Management in Hospitality and Tourism edited by Nick Johns
The Comparative Political Economy of Industrial Relations edited by Kirsten S. Weaver and Lowell Turner
Enriching Production: Perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla Plant as an Alternative to Lean Production edited by Åke Sandberg
Labour Law and Freedom: Further Essays in Labour Law by Lord Wedderburn. Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1995, xv + 464 pp., £24.95 paper.
Future Skill Demand and Supply: Trends, Shortages and Gluts edited by Hilary Metcalf
Acquiring Skills: Market Failures, their Symptoms and Policy Responses edited by Alison L. Booth and Dennis J. Snower
The Youth Labour Market in Britain: the Role of Intervention by B. M. Deakin.
Incomes and the Welfare State: Essays on Britain and Europe by A. B. Atkinson
New Inequalities: The Changing Distribution of Income and Wealth in the United Kingdom edited by John Hills
Management, Labour and Industrial Politics in Modern Europe: the Quest for Productivity Growth during the Twentieth Century edited by Joseph Melling and Alan McKinlay
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behaviour edited by Nigel Nicholson     

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