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

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     

Book Reviews

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     

Book reviews

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     

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 reviewed in this article: Unions in Crisis and Beyond: Perspectives from Six Countries Richard Edwards, Paola Garonna and Franz Tödling Unions, Unemployment and Innovation Eric Batstone and Stephen Gourlay with Hugh Levie and Roy Moore Labor Law Reform and US Industrial Relations Barbara Townley Gower Militant Managers? Managerial Unionism and Industrial Relations Greg Bamber White Collar Workers, Trade Unions and Class P. Armstrong, B. Carter, C. Smith and T. Nichols Soziologie der industriellen Beziehungen Walther Mtiller Jentsch Grey Dawn Breaking: British Merchant Seafarers in the Late Twentieth Century Tony Lane     

Book reviews

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     

Book Reviews

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     

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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Conservative Party and the Trade Unions Peter Dorey Industrial Relations and European State Traditions Colin Crouch The German Tradition of Organised Capitalism: self-government in the coal industry Martin F. Parnell Trade Unionism in Recession Duncan Gallie, Roger Penn and Michael Rose (Eds)     

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

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 Reviews

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     

BOOKS IN REVIEW

A Guide to the Industrial Relations Act by C. G. Heath Guide to the Industrial Relations Act by N. M. Selwyn Managing Shiftwork by Robert Sergean An Employer's Guide to the Industrial Relations Act by Peter Paterson Trade Unions and Technological Change by J. E. Mortimer Exploring the Industrial Subculture by Barry A. Turner The Sociology of Industry by S. R. Parker, R. K. Brown, J. Child and M. A. Smith Status, Productivity and Pay: a major experiment by Ronald S. Edwards and R. D. V. Roberts The Nylon Spinners: A Case Study in Productivity Bargaining and Job Enlargement by Stephen Cotgrove, Jack Dunham and Clive Vamplew The Techniques of Production Management by R. Wild SHORT REVIEWS: The New Anatomy of Britain by Anthony Sampson SHORT REVIEWS: Capital, Inflation and the Multi-Nationals by Charles Levinson SHORT REVIEWS: Flexible Working Hours by J. Harvey Bolton SHORT REVIEWS: Labour Market Issues of the 1970's edited by D. J. Robertson and L. C. Hunter     

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     

Book Reviews

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     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: The Decline of Trade Union Organisation, P.B. Beaumont Improving Industrial Relations – the Advisory Role of ACAS, Eric Armstrong and Rosemary Lucas The State of the Unions, Barrie Sherman The Trade Unions and the Labour Party, Andrew J. Taylor New Technology at Work, Arthur Francis Dictionnaire Canadiert des Relations du Travail, Gérard Dion Socialist Enterprise: Reclaiming the Economy, Diana Gilhespy, Ken Jones, Tony Manwaring, Henry Neuburger, Adam Sharpies     

Book reviews

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

Book reviews in this article:
The Chief Accountant in the System of Economic Management. (Glavniyat Schetovoditef v Sistemata na Stopanskoto Upravlenie.) I van D ushanov
The Industrial Relations Act: A Review and Analysis . By A. W. J. T homson and S. R. E ngleman
Unfair Dismissal: How and Why the Law Works . By D udley J ackson
Power Sharing in Industy: A Practical Guide of Emphyee Participation in Company Operations . By I nnis M acbeath
The Interview in Staff Appraisal . By W. E. B everidge
Retraining and Tradition; The Skilled Worker in an Era of Change . By K enneth H all and I sobel M iller
The Development of Japanese Btlsiness 1600–1973 . By J. H irschmeier and T. Y ui
Japanese Private Economic Diplomacy . By W. E. B ryant
Private Enterprise and Public Intervention - The Courtaulds Exterience . By A rthur K night
Elites and Power in British Society . By P hilip S tanworth and A nthony G iddens
Bosses in Britain Business . By F. R. J ervis
Business and the Changing Environment . By R. J oseph M onsen
Changing Hospitals - A report on the Hospital Internal Communications Project . Edited by G eorge F. W ieland and H ilary L eigh
Hospitals: Communications, Choice and Change - The Hospital Internal Communications Project seen from within . Edited by R. W. R evans