Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Keith Thomas (ed.) The Oxford Book of Work
David Marsden, A Theory of Employment Systems: Micro‐Foundations of Societal Diversity
Colin Crouch, Social Change in Western Europe
Torben Iversen, Jonas Pontusson and David Soskice, Unions, Employers, and Central Banks: Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies
Andre´ Gorz, Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage‐based Society
Leo Troy, Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining
Orley C. Ashenfelter and David Card (ed.) Handbook of Labor Economics
Muneto Ozaki (ed.) Negotiating Flexibility: The Role of the Social Parties and the State
Michael White and John Forth, Pathways through Unemployment: The Effects of a Flexible Labour Market
Harriet Bradley, Myths at Work
William B. Gould IV, Labored Relations: Law, Politics, and the NLRB — A Memoir     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Miners' Strike 1984–85. Loss Without Limit, by Martin Adeney and John Lloyd Re-working the Work Ethic; Economic Values and Socio-Culiural Politics, by Michael Rose Racism and Recruitment: Managers, organisations and equal opportunity in the labour market, by Richard Jenkins Pathways in the Workplace: The effects of gender and race on access to organisational resources, by Jon Miller The Politics of the UCS Work-in, by J. Foster and C. Woolfson Unemployment: an economic analysis, by K. G. Knight The End of Economic Man? Custom and Competition in Labour Markets, by David Marsden Sons of the Machine, by Charles H. Savage and George F. F. Lombard Unions, Unemployment & Innovation, by Eric Batstone and Stephen Gourlay     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960 by Christoper L. Tomlins
A History of British Trade Unions since 1889 Vol II 1911–1933 by H. A. Clegg
History and Heritage by Alan Fox
Man Mismanagement by Alan Fox.
Casual Labour: The Unemployment Question in the Port Transport Industry 1880–1970 by Gordon Phillips and Noel Whiteside
Employee Relations Bibliography & Abstracts edited and compiled by Arthur Marsh.
Dismissed by L. Dickens, M. Jones, B. Weekes and M. Hart
The Future of the Automobile. The Report of MITs International Automobile Program , (1984), by Alan Altshuler
Innovation and Management Control: Labour Relations at BL Cars (1984), by Paul Willman and Graham Winch
Consent and Efficiency: Labour Relations and Management Strategy in the State Enterprise by Eric Batstone, Anthony Ferner and Michael Terry
Women's Working Lives: Patterns and Strategies by S. Yeandle
Women's Work Histories: An Analysis of the Women and Employment Survey by S. Dex.
The Sexual Division of Work by S. Dex
Industrial Relations in Latin America by Efrén Córdova
Disorganised Capitalism: Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics by Claus Offe
Industrial Realtions and the Law in the 1980s: Issues and Future Trends , edited by Patricia Fosh and Craig R. Littler     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this aricle:
Gender and Technology in the Making Cynthia Cockburn and Susan Ormrod
Innovative Banking—Competition and the Management of a New Networks Technology John Howells and James Hine (Eds.)
Information Technology and Workplace Democracy Martin Beirne and Harvie Ramsay (Eds.)
Human Resource Management and Technical Change Jon Clark (Ed.)
Managing People and Technological Change John Bailey
Building Societies: Structure, Performance and Change Donal McKillop and Charles Ferguson
Optional Options: Work Design and Manufacturing Automation Jos Benders
Privatisation and Employment Relations: The Case of the Water Industry Julia O'Connell Davidson
The Politics of the Training Market: From Manpower Commission to Training and Enterprise Councils Brendan Evans
Learning to Succeed: A Radical Look at Education Today and A Strategy for the Future: Report of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation National Commission on Education Heinemann
Technology Transfer in Europe: Public and Private Networks David Charles and Jeremy Howells
Technological Collaboration in Industry: Strategy, Policy and Internationalisation in Innovation Mark Dodgson     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Workless State, edited by Brian Showler and Adrian Sinfield
What Unemployment Means, by Adrian Sinfield
Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century, by Richard Edwards
British Labour History, 1815–1914, by E. H. Hunt
Skill and rhe English Working Class, 1870–1914, by Charles More.
Little Moscows: Communism and Working-class Militancy in Inter-war Britain, by Stuart Macintyre
The Microelectronics Revolution, edited by Tom Forester
The Impact of Micro-electronics, by J. Rada
Microelectronics and Socicry. edited by Trevor Jones
Microelectronics. Capitalist Technology and the Working Class
Microelectronics and the Engineering Indurtry, edited by N. Swords-Isherwood and P. Senker.
Work, Mobility and Purticiparion: A Comparative Study of American and Japanese Industry, by Robert E. Cole
Human Resources in Japanese Industrial Development, by Solomon B. Levine and Hisashi Kawada
Industrial Dernocrucy in Europe by Industrial Democracy in Europe
Labor Relations in Advanced industrial Societies: issues and Problem, edited by Benjamin Martin and Everett M. Kassalow
The Mearunmenl of Unemployment; Methods and Sources in Great Britain 1850–1979, by W. R. Garside
Work Design, by J. Richard Hackman and Greg. R. Oldham.
Control and Ideology in Organbations, edited by Graeme Salaman and Kenneth Thompson
The Politics of Work and Occupations, edited by Geoff Esland and Graeme Salaman. The open
Work and People: an Economic Evaluation oflob Enrichment, by Henri Savall
Changes in Working Life, edited by K. D. Duncan, M. M. Gruneberg and D. Wallis
Women Returning ro Work; Policies and Progress in Five Countries, edited by Alice M. Yohalem.
Strikes in the United States 1881–1974, by P. K. Edwards     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Unions and Change Since 1945 by Chris Baker and Peter
Getting Organised by Alan Campbell and John Mcllroy
Women at Work by Chris Aldred
Health arid Safety at Work by Dave Eva and Ron Oswald
Democracy at Work by Patrick Burns and Mel Doyle
Ten Per Cenr crnd No Surrender: the Presron Sirrke 1853.-1854, by H.I. Dutton and J.E. King.
Workplace relations in the engineering industry in the U. K. and the Federal Republic of Germany. by Arthur Marsh, Maria Hackmann and Douglas Miller
New Technology and industrial Relations in Fleet Srreer by Roderick Martin
The Causes of the Presenr Inflation, by Andrew Tylecote, Macmillan.
Problems of British Economic Policy 1870-lY45, by Jim Tomlinson. Methuen.
Wages Policv in rhr Brirish C'oalrninirig Iridusrrv. by L.J. Handy
Labour Relations Statutes and Muterials 8Oi81, Advisory Editors B.A. Hepple, Paul O'Higgins,
The Employment Acts 19741980: A Commentary by Charles D. Drake and B. Bercusson.
Lord Wedderburn of Charlton. London, Sweet & Maxwell
Les atlitudes des travailleurs a I'igard desproduirs by Yvette Harff
The Soviet Worker: Illusions & Realities, edited by Leonard Schapiro and Joseph Godson
The False Promise of Codeterminntion, by Alfred L. Thimm     

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: The British Journal of Sociology, 41(3), September 1990. Special Issue: Britain as a European Society? edited by Colin Crouch The Political Economy of Unemployment: Active Labour Market Policy in West Germany and the United States by Thomas Janoski Women in the Japanese Workplace by Mary Saso Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace by Dorinne K. Kondo Managing Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories by D. H. Whittaker The New Masters: Can the West Match Japan? by Phillip Oppenheim Women at Work: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives edited by Jenny Firth-Cozens and Michael West Deciphering the Enterprise Culture: Entrepreneurship, Petty Capitalism and the Restructuring of Britain edited by Roger Burrows Negotiation Games: Applying Game Theory to Bargaining and Arbitration by Stephen J. Brams Current Issues in Labour Economics edited by David Sapsford and Zafiris Tzannatos Patterns of Labour: Work and Social Change in the Pottery Industry by Richard Whipp Corporate Culture: From Vicious to Virtuous Circles by Charles Hampden-Turner     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
New Collective Forms of Work Organization in Eastern Europe edited by L. Hethy, M. Lado and J. E. M. Thirkell
Industrial Districts and Inter-firm Co-operation in Italy edited by F. Pyke, G. Becattini and W. Sengenberger
The Re-emergence of Small Enterprises: Industrial Restructuring in Industrialized Countries edited by W. Sengenberger, G. W. Loveman and M. J. Piore
Women Assemble: Women Workers and the New Industries in Inter-war Britain , by Miriam Glucksmann
British Social Attitudes: The 7th Report edited by Roger Jowell, Sharon Witherspoon and Lindsay Brook
The Attlee and Churchill Administrations and Industrial Unrest, 1945–1955: A Study in Consensus by Justin Davis. Smith Pinter
US Hegemony under Siege: Class, Politics and Development in Latin America by James Petras and Morris Morley
Butterworth's Employment Law Handbook, 5th edn. , edited by Peter Wallington
European Industrial Relations: The Challenge of Flexibility edited by Guido Baglioni and Colin Crouch
Trade Unions and their Members: Studies in Union Democracy and Organization edited by Patricia Fosh and Edmund Heery
A History of the National Graphical Association by John Gennard
Changing Job Structures. Techniques for the Design of New Jobs and Organizations by Michael Cross
The Strategic Management of Technological Innovation edited by Ray Loveridge and Martyn Pitt
Industrial Training and Technological Innovation: A Comparative and Historical Study edited by Howard Gospel
Improving Incentives for the Low Paid edited by Alex Bowen and Ken Mayhew
The Economics of Human Resource Management edited by Daniel J. B. Mitchell and Mahmood A. Zaidi
Macroeconomics and The Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation and the Exchange Rate by Wendy Carlin and David Soskice
Inflation and Unemployment: Macroeconomics with a Range of Equilibria by Ian M. MacDonald     

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.     

Book Reviews

Keith Grint and Steve Woolgar, The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organisation
Harry C Katz, Telecommunications – Restructuring Work and Employment Relations Worldwide
Theo Nichols, The Sociology of Industrial Injury
Axel van den Berg, Bengt Furaker, Leif Johansson, Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: a Sweden-Canada Comparison     

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: 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

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     

Book Reviews

Towers, Brian, (ed.) Employment Relations in Britain: 25 years of the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration services
Rigby, Mike, Smith, Roger and Lawlor, Teresa, (eds.) European Trade Unions: Change and Response
Turner, Lowell, Fighting for Partnership: Labor and Politics in Unified Germany
Elliot, Robert, Lucifora, Claudio and Meurs, Dominique, (eds.) Public Sector Pay Determination in the European Union
Lind, Jens and Hornemann Möller, Iver, (eds.) Inclusion and Exclusion: Unemployment and Non‐standard Employment in Europe
Clark, Ed and Soulsby, Anna, Organizational Change in Post‐communist Europe: Management and Transformation in the Czech Republic
Dark, Taylor, The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance
Freeman, Richard and Rogers, Joel, What Workers Want
Whetten, David and Godfrey, Paul, (eds.) Identity in Organizations: Building Theory through Conversations
Tsutsui, William, Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth‐Century Japan
Barker, James, The Discipline of Teamwork: Participation and Concertive Control     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Jared Bernstein Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition Michael Rose Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy Jonathan Winterton Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss John Saville A Life on the Left Catherine Hakim Part-Time Prospects: An International Comparison of Part-Time Work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim Andreas Wittel The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism John Benson HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation Marco C. de Witte New Forms of Work Organisation: Can Europe Realise its Potential?     

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: 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     

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.     

Book Reviews: edited by Wlodymyr Maksymiw

Shaping Women's Work: Gender, Employment and Information Technology . J. Webster
Information Space. A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture . Max H. Boisot
The Industrial Craftsworker: Skill, Managerial Strategies and Workplace Relations . Peter Cook
Towards a Competent Workforce . Bob Mansfield and Lindsay Mitchell
Restructuring Within a Labour Intensive Industry . I. M. Taplin and J. Winterton (eds)
Employee Participation in Europe . Herman Knudsen
Technology Strategy for Business . David Ford and Mike Saren