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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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Books reviewed: The Skills That Matter
Chris Warhurst, Irena Grugulis and Ewart Keep (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xv + 272 pp., £23.99
Reviewed by Kim Hoque
Nottingham University Business School Fragmenting Work: Blurring Organizational Boundaries and Disordering Hierarchies
Mick Marchington, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Hugh Willmott (eds)
Oxford University Press, 2005, 319 pp., £22.50
Reviewed by Ian Kirkpatrick
Leeds University Business School Employment Relations and the Health Service: The Management of Reforms
Stephen Bach
Routledge, 2004, 239 pp., £65.00
Reviewed by Geoff White
University of Greenwich Working in the Twenty‐first Century
Michael Moynagh and Richard Worsley
ESRC and The Tomorrow Project, 2005, 196 pp., £20.00
Reviewed by Brian Towers
University of Nottingham     

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Heery, Edmund and Salmon, John. The Insecure Workforce
Storey, John and Sisson, Keith. The Realities of Human Resource Management: Managing the Employment Relationship
Peiperl, Maury A., Arthur, Michael B., Goffee, Rob and Morris, Timothy, Eds. Career Frontiers: New Conceptions of Working Lives
Dibben, Mark R. Exploring Interpersonal Trust in the Entrepreneurial Venture
Mowery, D. C. and Rosenberg, N. Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th Century America
Schoenberger, Erica. The Cultural Crisis of the Firm
Bowles, Samuel, Franzini, Maurizio and Pagano, Ugo. The Politics and Economics of Power
Kirkeby, Ole Fogh. Management Philosophy: A Radical-Normative Perspective
Heery, Edmund and Salmon, John. The Insecure Workforce
Storey, John and Sisson, Keith. The Realities of Human Resource Management: Managing the Employment Relationship
Peiperl, Maury A., Arthur, Michael B., Goffee, Rob and Morris, Timothy, Eds. Career Frontiers: New Conceptions of Working Lives
Dibben, Mark R. Exploring Interpersonal Trust in the Entrepreneurial Venture
Mowery, D. C. and Rosenberg, N. Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th Century America
Schoenberger, Erica. The Cultural Crisis of the Firm
Bowles, Samuel, Franzini, Maurizio and Pagano, Ugo. The Politics and Economics of Power
Kirkeby, Ole Fogh. Management Philosophy: A Radical-Normative Perspective     

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Books reviewed:
Thompson, Paul and Warhurst, Chris (Eds). Workplaces of the Future
Collins, David. Organizational Change: Sociological Perspectives
Wilkinson, Adrian, Redman, Tom, Snape, Ed and Marchington, Mick. Man- aging with Total Quality Management: Theory and Practice
Iles, Paul. Managing Staff Selection and Assessment
Towers, Brian. The Representation Gap — Change andReform in the British and American Workplace
Schneider, S. and Barsoux, J. L. Managing Across Borders
Storey, John, Edwards, Paul and Sisson, Keith. Managers in the Making
Perlow, Leslie. Finding Time: How Corporations, Individualsand Families can Benefit from New Work Practices     

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McKinley, A. and Starkey, K. (Eds)., Foucault, Management and Organization Theory
Billing, Y.D. and Alvesson, M., Gender, Managers, and Organizations
Whitehead, Stephen and Moodley, Roy (Eds), Transforming Managers: Gendering Changes in the Public Sector
Baumard, Philipe, Tacit Knowledge in Organizations
Furusten, Staffan, Popular Management Books: How They are Made and What They Mean for Organisation
Karnøe, Peter, Kristensen, Peer Hull and Andersen, Poul Houman, Mobilizing Resources and Generating Competences: The Remarkable Success of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Danish Business System
French, Robert and Vince, Russ, Group Relations, Management and Organization     

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Linstead, S., Small Grafton, R. and Jeffcutt, P. Understanding Management . London: Sage, 1996 (Rolland Munro).
Billsberry, J. The Effective Manager: Perspectives and Illustrations . London: Sage, 1996, pp. 348, £14.95 (Stephen King).
Paton, R., Clark, G., Jones, G., Lewis, J. and Quintas, P. The New Management Reader . London: Routledge, 1996, pp. 283, £12.99 (Oswald Jones).
Earl, M. J. (Ed.). Information Management: The Organizational Dimension . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 514, £50 (Oswald Jones).
Attwood, M. and Dimmock, S. Personnel Management . London: Macmillan Press, 1996, pp. 240, £10.99 (Ann Davis).
Collinson, David L. and Hearns, Jeff (Eds). Men as Managers, Managers as Men: Critical Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Managements . London: Sage, 1996, pp. 288, ISBN 08039 8929 (Ian Lennie).
Dag Bjorkegren. The Culture Business: Management Strategies for the Arts-related Business . London: Routledge, 1996, pp. 189, £12.99 ISBN 1-415-12235-X pb, £40 ISBN 0-415-12234-1 hb (Matthew Higgins).
Sadler, P. (Ed.). Strategic Change: Building a High Performance Organization . Kidlington, Oxford: Pergamon (Elsevier Science), 1995, pp. xvi + 202, ISBN 0-08-042571-2, hb (Gerard P. Hodgkinson).
Thomas, H., O'Neal, D. and Kelly, J. (Eds). Strategic Renaissance and Business Transformation . Chichester: John Wiley, 1995, pp. xv + 484, ISBN 0-471-95751-8, hb.
Deakins, D. Entrepreneurship and Small Firms . London: McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 248, pb (Martin Friel and Rhodri Thomas).
Barkham, R., Gudgin, G., Hart, M. and Hanvey, E. The Determinants of Small Firm Growth. An Inter-regional Study in the United Kingdom 1986–1990 . Regional Policy and Development Series no. 12. London: Jessica Kingsley and Regional Studies Association, pp. 168 (Martin Friel and Rhodri Thomas).     

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The main purpose of this exploratory research was to study the strategic importance of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as an emerging source of professional talent for European and American multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in Western Europe. The findings, based on in-depth interviews with 34 human resource leaders and consultants from 16 firms in the European Union and Switzerland, suggest that the new member states currently hold little strategic importance in the context of recruiting knowledge workers to Western Europe, and that MNCs' global staffing strategies may be excluding a strong and untapped source of professional talent. The less obvious and perhaps most important findings about why most of these MNCs do not systematically recruit from CEE countries lead to perceptions about CEE cultures and the communist legacy that still linger today.     

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Book Reviewed in This Article: THE CHALLENGE TO MANAGEMENT CONTROL John Storey MASTERS, UNIONS AND MEN: WORK CONTROL IN BUILDING AND THE RISE OF LABOUR, 1830–1914 Richard Price A CLASS AGAINST ITSELF—POWER IN THE NATIONALISATION OF THE BRITISH STEEL INDUSTRY Doug McEachern TRADE UNIONS AND THE INDIVIDUAL Alan Campbell PAY IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR R. F. Elliott and J. L. Fallick CURRENT CONCERNS IN OCCUPATIONAL STRESS C. L. Cooper and R. Payne (ed.)     

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Books reviewed: Being Local Worldwide: ABB and the Challenge of Global Management, Tony Edwards Britain at Work, As depicted by the 1988 Workplace Employee Relations Surrey, Wendy Loretto Manufacturing Advantage: Why High‐Performance Work Systems Pay Off, Sue Hutchinson Talking About Organisation Science: Debates and Dialogues from Crossroads, Tony J Watson     

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Book review in this article: The UK Labour Market–Comparative Aspects and Institutional Developments Ray Barrell, Editor Willing Slaves? British Workers under Human Resource Management Andrew Scott Managing Managers Snape, E., Redman, T. and Bamber, G. J. Management in Western Europe–Society, Culture and Organization in Twelve Nations D. J. Hickson, Editor Human Resource Management in Europe: Perspectives for the 1990s Paul Kirkbride, Editor The Social Dimension: Employment Policy in the European Community Michael Gold, Editor The Social Dimension of the European Community Ruth Nielsen and Erika Szyszczak     

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Book reviews in this article: WAGES POLICY IN THE BRITISH COALMINING INDUSTRY J. L. Handy THE MILITANCY OF BRITISH MINERS V. L. Allen BATTERED CHERUB Joe Gormley KING COAL Tony Hall THE DEGRADATION OF WORK?: SKILL, DESKILLING AND THE LABOUR PROCESS Edited by Stephen Wood SOVIET TRADE UNIONS: THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 1970s Blair A. Ruble BLUE COLLAR WORKERS IN EASTERN EUROPE Jan F. Triska and Charles Gati (eds.) George Allen and Unwin     

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Changes that have been introduced in Poland in the 1990s have affected not only economic but also social life. These changes concern, among others, the pension scheme which started in Poland on 1 January 1999. This paper's goal is to present the major principles underlying the pension scheme reform in Poland vis-a-vis systems existing in other central and east European countries. They aim at replacing the relatively inefficient redistribution-based system with a mixed pension scheme, largely based on the capital reserve approach. A comparison of solutions employed in the selected countries will allow us to capture trends characterizing the evolution of the pension schemes.     

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Simmie, James (ed.), Innovation, networks and learning regions? Benko, Georges and Ulf Strohmayer (eds.), Space and social theory. Interpreting modernity and postmodernity Borja, Jordi and Manuel Castells, Local and global: management of cities in the information age Harris, Richard, Unplanned suburbs. Toronto’s American tragedy, 1900–1960 and Hill, Patricia, Dallas: the making of a modern city Wit, Joop W. de, Poverty, policy and politics in Madras slums: dynamics of survival, gender and leadership     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: Andrew, C., Bordeleau, S. and Guimont, A. 1981: L'urbanisation: une affaire. Coing, H. 1982: La ville, marché de l'emploi. Cullen, M. and Woolery, S. editors, 1982: World Congress on Land Policy, 1980. Vittrup, E. 1982: Illegal land occupations in Colombia: typology of organization models in the case of Cali.