Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Wade Jacoby, Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Jelle Visser, (eds.) Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 Jeremy Waddington and Reiner Hoffman, (eds.) Trade Unions in Europe: Facing Challenges and Searching for Solutions Martyn Wright, Managing Competitive Crisis: Strategic Choice and the Reform of Workrules Chris Brewster, Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Michael Morley, (eds.) New Challenges for European Human Resource Christophe Vigneau, Kerstin Ahlberg, Brian Bercusson and Niklas Bruun, Fixed‐term Work in the EU: A European Agreement against Discrimination and Abuse Jackie Krasas Rogers, Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace Stewart D. Friedman and Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Work and Family — Allies or Enemies? Catherine Hakim, Work–Lifestyle Choices in the 21st Century: Preference Theory Gerald Hunt, (ed.) Laboring for Rights: Unions and Sexual Diversity across Nations Kitty Krupat and Patrick McCreery, (eds.) Out at Work: Building a Gay–Labor Alliance Alan Campbell. The Scottish Miners, 1874–1939, Volume 1: Industry, Work and Community; Volume 2: Trade Unions and Politics     

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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     

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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     

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C.B. Randall, The Folklore of Management S.L Brown and K.M. Eisenhardt, Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos N.S. Levy, Managing High Technology and Innovation L. Turner, D. Ray and A. Hayward, The British Research of Japanese Companies J. Howells and J. Michie (eds), Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness L. Huemer, Trust in Business Relations: Economic Logic or Social Interaction?     

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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     

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Book reviews in this article:
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour Phillip Brown and Richard Scase (eds.)
Critical Theory of Technology Andrew Feenberg
Building Capitalism: Historical Change & the Labour Process in the Production of the Built Environment Linda Clarke
Restructuring a Traditional Industry: Construction Employment and Skills in Europe Helen Rainbird and Gerd Syben (eds.)
Science Policy Research: Implications and Applications Darcy F. De Almeida (ed.)
Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organisation L. Sproull and S. Kiesler
Organizational Structure and Information Technology Jon Harrington
Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments Richard Gillespie     

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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?     

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Sako, M. and Sato, H. (eds), Japanese Labour and Management in Transition: Diversity, Flexibility and Participation
Ferguson, Charles and McKillip, Donal, The Strategic Development of Credit Unions
Cannell, W. and Dankebaar, B. (eds), Technology, Management and Public Policy in the European Union
Ransome, P., The Work Paradigm
Rinehart, James; Huxley, Christopher and Robertson, David, Just Another Car Factory: lean production and its discounts
Dent, Mike, Professions, Information Technology and Management in Hospitals     

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Book review in this Article
The Management Implications of New Information Technology N. Piercy (ed.)
High Technology Small Firms — Innovation and Regional Development in Britain and the United States R. Oakey
Future Work James Robertson Maurice Temple Smith
Technology, Work and Industrial Relations Russell D. Lansbury and Edward M. Davis
Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Labour Market Programs Australian Government Publishing Service Canberra
Japanese Employment and Employee Relations: An Annotated Bibliography Bill Ford, Millicent Easther and Ann Brewer Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra
Technology and the Workforce: An Annotated Bibliography Bill Ford, Margaret Coffey and Dexter Dunphy Technology Research Unit, New South Wales Ministry of Technology
Technological Change: The Tripartite Response, 1982–85 Hedva Sarfati and Margaret Cove
Work in the 1980s. Emanicipation and Derogation Bengt Ove Gustavsson, Jan Ch. Karlsson & Curt Räftegård     

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Books reviewed:
Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems
Peter Leisink (ed) Globalization and Labour Relations
Herbert Kitschelt, Peter Lange, Gary Marks and John D. Stephens (eds) Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism
Andrew Martin and George Ross The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium
Alan Felstead and Nick Jewson (eds) Global Trends in Flexible Labour
Brendan Burchell, Diana Day, Maria Hudson, David Ladipo, Roy Mankelow, Jane P. Nolan, Hannah Reed, Ines C. Wichert and Frank Wilkinson Layerthorpe Job Insecurity and Work Intensification: Flexibility and the Changing Boundaries of Work
Gerhard Huemer, Michael Mesch and Franz Traxler (eds) The Role of Employer Associations and Labour Unions in the EMU: Institutional Requirements for European Economic Policies
John D. R. Craig Privacy and Employment Law
Gerrit de Geest, Jacques Siegers and Roger Van den Bergh (eds) Law and Economics and the Labour Market
Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor
Linda Markowitz Worker Activism after Successful Union Organizing     

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Books reviewed in this article: Tito Boeri, Agar Brugiavini and Lars Calmfors (eds), with Alison Booth, Michael Burda, Daniele Checchi, Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Richard Freeman, Pietro Garibaldi, Bertil Holmlund, Robin Naylor, Martin Schludi, Thierry Verdier and Jelle Visser, The Role of Unions in the Twenty–First Century: A Study for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti Robert Cherry and William M. Rodgers III (eds), Prosperity for All? The Economic Boom and African Americans Hugh Collins, Paul Davies and Roger Rideout, Legal Regulation of the Employment Relation Jon Erik Dølvik (ed), At Your Service? Comparative Perspectives on Employment and Labour Relations in the European Private Sector Services Lonnie Golden and Deborah M. Figart (eds), Working Time: International Trends and Policy Perspectives Jaap de Koning and Hugh Mosley (eds), Labour Market Policy and Unemployment: Impact and Process Evaluations in Selected European Countries Michael H. Belzer, Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation Stephen Crowley and David Ost (eds), Workers after Workers’ States: Labor and Politics in Postcommunist Eastern Europe Hans–Peter Blossfeld and Sonja Drobnic (eds), Careers of Couples in Contemporary Society: From Male Breadwinner to Dual Earner Families Anne McBride, Gender Democracy in Trade Unions Stephen Dobson and John Goddard, The Economics of Football Stephen Eric Bronner, Socialism Unbound     

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Books reviewed:
H. Etzkowitz, A. Webster and P. Healey (eds) Capitalizing Knowledge: New Intersections of Industry and Academia
Haider A. Khan, Edward Elgar Technology, Development and Democracy. Limits of National Innovation Systems in the Age of Postmodernism
J. Michie and J. Grieve Smith (eds) Globalization, Growth, and Governance: Creating an Innovative Economy
R.G. Cooper Product Leadership – Creating and Launching Superior New Products
E.R. Corey Technology Fountainheads: The Management Challenge of R&D Consortia     

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Books reviewed:
C. M. Gross, U. Reischl and P. Abercrombie, The New Ideas Factory: Expanding Technology Companies with University Intellectual Capital
P.‐P. Saviotti and B. Nooteboom, (eds) Technology and Knowledge: from the Firm to Innovation Systems
W. During, R. Oakey and M. Kipling, (eds) New Technology‐based Firms at the Turn of the Century
S. J. Harryson, Managing Know‐who Companies: a Multi‐networked Approach to Knowledge and Innovation Management
Peter A. Simmons, The Outsourcing R&D Toolkit
G. Dosi, Innovation, Organisation and Economic Dynamics: Selected Essays     

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Books reviewed:
Michael A. Hitt, Raphael Amit, Charles E. Lucier and Robert D. Nixon, Creating Value – Winners in the New Business Environment
Michael A. Hitt, R. Edward Freeman and Jeffrey S Harrison (eds.), The Blackwell Handbook of Strategic Management
OECD Proceedings, Innovative Networks - Cooperation in National Innovation Systems
Robert C. Scharff and Val Dusek (eds.), Philosophy of Technology. The Technological Condition: an Anthology     

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Book reviews in this article:
Technclogy in Working Order: Studies of Work, Interaction, and Technology Graham Button (Ed.)
Communication, Technology and the Development of People Bernard Woods
Photonic Technology and Industrial Policy: US Responses to Technological Change Ernest Stemberg
Beyond Taylorism: Computerization and the New Industrial Relations Lorraine Giordano
Japanization at Work John Bratton
Working for the Japanese Stephanie Jones
Technology and Work in German Industry Norbert Altmann, Christoph Kohler and Pamela Meil (Eds.)
Towards Global Localisation: The Computing and Telecommunications Industries in Britain and France Philip Cooke, Frank Moulaert, Erik Swyngedouw, Olivier Weinstein, Peter Wells, Martine Lemattre and Patrice Grevet
New Technology and Practical Police Work S. Ackroyd, R. Harper, J. A. Hughes, D. Shapiro and K. Soothill     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Shop floor bargaining and the state: Historical and comparative perspectives, edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin The Politics of the West German Trade Unions, Strategies of class and interest representation in growth and crisis, by Andrei S. Markovits The Development of Trade Unionism in Great Britain and Germany, 1880–1914, by Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Hans-Gerhard Husung (eds.). The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany, by M. Maurice, F. Sellier and J. J. Silvestre The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing. The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain, by Samuel Cohn Sex and the Workplace, by Barbara A. Gutek Employee Consultation and Information in Multinational Corporations, edited by J. Vandamme Militant Managers: Managerial Unionism and Industrial Relations, by Greg Bamber Redundancy and Recession: restructuring the regions?, edited by Mike Danson People and Chips: The Human Implications of Information Technology, by Christopher Rowe Technology and Work: East-West Comparison, edited by Peter Grootings The Future Impact of Automation on Workers, by Wassily Leontieff and Faye Duchin Workplace Industrial Relations and Technical Change, by W. W. Daniel     

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W.C. Bogner with H. Thomas Drugs to Market: Creating Value and Advantage in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
F. Bidault, P.-Y. Gomez, and G. Marion, (eds), Trust: Firm and Society. Essays in Honour of Dr Roger Delay Termoz
H. Abbott and M. Tyler Safer by Design: A Guide to the Management and Law of Designing for Product Safety (2nd ed.)
P.P. Reid, and A. Schriesheim, Prospering in a Global Economy: Foreign Participation in US Research and Development.
J. Horgan The End of Science
M. Bruce and R. Cooper, Marketing and Design Management.
Mark S. Frankel and Jane Cave Evaluating Science and Scientists. An East-West Dialogue on Research Evaluation in Post-Communist Europe
A. Piccaluga Impresa e Sistema dell'Innovazione Tecnologica.
D.A. Dyker (ed.) The Technology of Transition: Science and Technology Policies for Transition Countries     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (eds.), Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage
Robert E Goodwin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels and Henk-Jan Dirven, The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, At Home and Abroad: US Labour Market Performance in International Perspective
Michael E. Gordon and Lowell Turner (eds.), Transnational Cooperation Among Labour Unions
Yaw A. Debrah and Ian G. Smith (eds.), Globalization, Employment and the Workplace: Diverse Impacts
Terence Jackson, International HRM: A Cross-Cultural Approach
Jill Andresky Fraser, White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and its Rewards in Corporate America
Anita Chan, China's Workers under Assault: The Exploitation of Labour in a Globalizing Economy
John Pencavel, Worker Participation: Lessons from the Worker Co-ops of the Pacific Northwest
John Logue and Jacquelyn Yates (foreword by William Greider), The Real World of Employee Ownership
Wolfgang Lecher, Hans-Wolfgang Platzer, Stefan Rüb and Klaus-Peter Weiner, European Works Councils: Negotiated Europeanisation between Statutory Framework and Social Dynamics
Paul Smith, Unionization and Union Leadership: The Road Haulage Industry
Bridget M. Hutter, Regulation and Risk: Occupational Health and Safety on the Railways     

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

The CZO, 1935–1955. By Robert H. Zieger. 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 and a Little Fire: Women and Working-class Politics in the United States, 1900–1965. By Annelise Orleck Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal. By Devra Weber Employment Contracts: New Zealand Experiences. Edited by Raymond Harbridge. Goodyear Invades the Backcountry: The Corporate Takeover of a Rural Town. By Bryan D. Palmer Militancy, Market Dynamics, and Workplace Authority: The Struggle over Labor Process Outcomes in the US. Automobile Industry, 1946 to 1973. By James R. Zetka, Jr. A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II. By Nancy Baker Wise and Christy Wise Multinationals and Employment: The Global Economy of the 1990s. Edited by Paul Bailey, Aurelio Parisotto and Geoffrey Renshaw. On Different Planes: An Organizational Analysis of Cooperation and Conflict Among Airline Unions. By David J. Walsh. The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class. By Anna Clark Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954–1985. By Deborah Levenson-Estrada. Training for Employment in Western Europe and the United States. By J. R. Shackleton. Women in Trade Unions: Organizing the Unorganized. Edited by Margaret Hosmer Martens and Swasti Mitter. The Work of Strangers: A Survey of International Labour Migration. By Peter Stalker. Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge. Edited by Jacques Belanger, P. K. Edwards, and Larry Haiven.     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Kirsten Wever, Labor, Business and Change in Germany and the United States
Ian Clark, Governance, the State, Regulation and Industrial Relations
Raymond Markey, Paul Gollan, Ann Hodgkinson, Alain Chouraqui and Ulke Veersama (eds), Models of Employee Participation in a Changing Global Environment: Diversity and Interaction
Andrew Pendleton, Employee Ownership, Participation and Governance: A Study of ESOPs in the UK
Christopher Candland and Rudra Sil (eds), The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late–industrializing and Post–socialist Economies
Chris Rowley and John Benson (eds), Globalization and Labour in the Asia Pacific Region
Brendan Burchell, David Ladipo and Frank Wilkinson (eds), Job Insecurity and Work Intensification
Jone L. Pearce, Organization and Management in the Embrace of Government
Maury Peiperl, Michael Arthur, Rob Goffee and Tim Morris (eds), Career Frontiers: New Conceptions of Working Lives
Steen Scheuer, Social and Economic Motivation at Work: Theories of Motivation Reassessed
Cary L. Cooper, Philip J. Dewe and Michael P. O'Driscoll, Organizational Stress: A Review and Critique of Theory, Research and Applications