Book reviews

Books reviewed: Robert Taylor. Social Democratic Trade Unionism: An Agenda for Action.
Reviewed by Peter Ackers Mark Freedland. The Personal Employment Contract.
Reviewed by Ann Blair J. O’Reilly (ed.), Regulating Working‐time transitions in Europe.
Reviewed by Paul Blyton Huw Beynon, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Kevin Ward. Managing Employment Change: The New Realities of Work.
Reviewed by John Purcell Robert Taylor's Series of Reports for the ESRC's Future of Work Programme.
Reviewed by Jason Heyes     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Human Resource Management. Perspectives for the New Era, Colin Fisher Social and Economic Transformation in East Central Europe: Institutions, Property Relations and Social Interests, Roderick Martin Trade Unions at the Crossroads, Guy Vernon Employment Relations and National Culture: Continuity and Change in the Age of Globalisation, Boyd Black     

Bookshelf 2004

Books reviewed: Ola Bergstrom and Donald Storrie (eds). Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States.
Reviewed by Ian Kirkpatrick Tonia Novitz. International and European Protection of the Right to Strike.
Reviewed by Lord McCarthy Deborah Foster and Peter Scott (eds). Trade Unions in Europe—Meeting the Challenge.
Reviewed by Michael Gold Jeff Kenner. EU Employment Law. From Rome to Amsterdam and Beyond.
Reviewed by Simon Deakin Vladimir Gimpelson and Douglas Lippoldt. The Russian Labour Market: Between Transition and Turmoil.
Reviewed by Gregory Schwartz     

Book reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Paul Osterman, Thomas A. Kochan, Richard Locke and Michael J. Piore, Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labour Market Brian Towers and William Brown (eds.), Employment Relations in Great Britain: 25 years of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service G. van Gyes, H. de Witte and P. Pasture (eds.), Can Class Still Unite? The Differentiated Work Force, Class Solidarity and Trade Unions Paul Smith, Unionization and Union Leadership: The Road Haulage Industry     

Bookshelf 2002

Books reviewed in this article: Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Jelle Visser Macmillan, Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 Andrew Martin and George Ross (eds), The Brave New World of European Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium G. Fajertag and P. Pochet (eds), Social Pacts in Europe–New Dyamics Roger Zegers de Beijl (ed.), Documenting Discrimination against Migrant Workers in the Labour Market: a Comparative Study of Four European Countries     

BOOK REVIEWS

THE BUSINESS EXECUTIVE Executive Compensation in Large Industrial Corporations. By Wilbur G. Llewellen The Exceptional Executive: A Psychological Conception. By Harry Levinson Management Science in Action. By William T. Morris Man-in-Organization: Essays of F. J. Roethlisberger. By F. J. Roethlisberger INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Trade Unions and Industrial Relations. By N. Robertson and J. L. Thomas Shop Stewards in British Industry. By J. F. B. Goodman and T. G. Whittingham Productivity Agreements and Wage Systems. By D. T. B. North and G. L. Buckingham Industrial Relations and the Personnel Specialists. By Peter Anthony and Anne Crichton Incentive Payment Systems. By R. Marriott A National Minimum Wage: An Inquiry. Department of Employment and Productivity Is Britain Really Strike Prone? By H. A. Turner MANAGEMENT Management and Macbiavelli. By Antony Jay The History of Management Thought. By Claude S. George , Jr Modern Industrial Management. By S. Benjamin Prasad The Effective Executive. By Peter Drucker Is Scientific Management Possible? By Joe Kelly Pattern for Success. By Walter Wingo MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING Organizational Necessities and Individual Needs. By R. J. Hacon Skills Analysis Training. By W. Douglas Seymour Training and Work. A Study in Employment Attitudes. By L. R. Parker Assessment Through Interviewing. By George Shouksmith Leaving School and Starting Work. By Ethel Venables PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT Industrial Relations. The Role of the Trade Unions. By J. E. Mortimer The Manager's Guide to Industrial Relations. By L. F. Neal and Andrew Robertson The Theory and Practice of Personnel Management. By Maurice W. Cuming Personnel: A Behavioral Approach to Administration. By Leon C. Megginson PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Manufacturing Management: A Quantitative Approach. By Robert A. Olsen . The Management of Production, 2nd Edition. By J. D. Radford and D. B. Richardson     

BOOKS REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: USING COMPUTERS How to Live with Your Computer. By Paul T. Smith Business Data Processing and Programming. By Robert H. Gregory and Richard L. Van Horn Computer Programming Techips. By Theodore G. Scott MANAGEMENT The Theory of Practice in Management. By R. W. Revans The Business Executive in a Changing World, By W. N. Mitchell The Business Establisbmen. Edited by Earl F. Cheit THE LABOUR MARKET Manpower Planning in a Free Society. By Richard A. Lester Manpower Policy and Employment Trends. Edited by B. C. Roberts and J. H. Smith Elderly Employed. By Douglas R. Snellgrove Britain's Married Women Workers. By Viola Klein Manpower Planning. By Daniel H. Gray Occupation and Pay in Great Britain, 1906-60. By Guy Routh The Labouw Market. By John Corina Tbe Development of Incomes Policy. By John Corina Wage Trends, Wage Policies, and Collective Bargaining: the Problems for Uderdeveloped Countries. By H. A. Turner ECONOMICS Public and Private Enterprise. By John Jewkes Modern Capitalism. By Andrew Shonpield The British Economy in 1975. By W. Beckerman and Associates Trade Prospects for Developing Countries. By Bela A. Balassa The Balance of Payments. By Max J. Wasserman and Ray M. Ware The World Economy at tbe Crossroads. By Harry G. Johnson The Geograpby of Economics. By Geoffrey Parker OPERATIONS RESEARCH Management Operations Research. By N. L. Enrick Operational Research for Management. By M. J. Sargeaunt MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION AND INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY The Analysis of Organizations. By Joseph A. Litterer Eupychian Management. By Abraham H. Maslow Industrial Psychology. By Joseph Tiffin and Ernest J. Mccormick Readings in Management: landmarks and new frontiers. By Ernest Dale PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT The Mamgemenf of PersonneI Relations - History and Origins. By Cyril C. Ling. Personnel Management. By Herbert J. Chruden and Arthur W. Sherman Jnr. BOOKS RECEIVED Man in Employment. By A. B. Badger I was There - The Memoirs of H. S. Tremenheere. By E. L. and 0. P. EDMONDS Present System of Trade and Payments versus Full Employment and Welfare State. By Éaprime Eshag Psychology - General, Industrial, Social. By J. Munro Fraser Programed Learning - a critical evaluation. By Ed. John L. Hughes Industrial Economics. By H. G. Hunt Economic Growth and Structure. By S . Kuznets     

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: Macmillan Directory of Multinationals (two volumes) D. C. Stafford and R. H. A. Purkis (eds.) Small Business and Society David Goss The Re-emergence of Small Enterprises W. Sengenberger, G. W. Loveman & M. J. Piore (eds) The British Trade Union Directory W. Maksymiw, Ed. Trade Union Policy and the Unemployed Paul Lewis Managing to Discriminate David L. Collinson, David Knights and Margaret Collinson Butterworths Employment Law Handbook , (5th Ed.) Peter Wallington Employer's Liability at Common Law , (11th Ed.) John Munkman Bowers on Employment Law J. Bowers Butterworths Employment Law Guide C. Osman, (Ed.) Work Organisations Paul Thompson and David McHugh The Impact of Economic Democracy Profit-Sharing and Employee Shareholding Schemes Michael Poole and Glenville Jenkins Women in the Japanese Workplace Mary Saso     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bargaining Power Roderick Martin Labour Markets Under Trade Unionism: Employment, Wages and Hours Seniority Wage System in the Far East Byung Whan Kim Avebury/Gower 1992 Through Jaundiced Eyes-How the Media View Organized Labor William J. Puette; Participation in Public Policy-Making: the Role of Trade Unions and Employers' Associations Tiziano Treu (Ed.) Fordism and Flexibility: Divisions and Change . N. Gilbert, R. Burrows and A. Pollert (Eds.) Economic Democracy and Financial Participation: A comparative study Daryl D'Art, Routledge The Changing US Auto Industry: A Geographical Analysis James M. Rubenstein Routledge Feminising the Market: Women's Pay and Employment in the European Community Jane Pillinger Macmillan Dual-Earner Families: International Perspectives Suzan Lewis, Dafna N. Izraeli and Helen Hootsmans (eds.) Development in the Management of Human Resources John Storey Blackwell     

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 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

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

Books reviewed: Colin Bryson, The Insecure Workforce Thomas Murakami, Employment Relations: Individualisation and Union Exclusion‐An Interanational Study Dr Stephen Heycock, More with Less: Work Reorganization in the Canadian Mining Industry G.C Harcourt, The Development of Economics in Western Europe since 1945     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Young People in the Workplace: Job, Union and Mobility Patterns,Richard Disney Weaving Work and Motherhood,Jan Druker Organizational Misbehaviour,Susanne Tietze Law of Employment: Practice and Analysis,Kenneth Miller     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin (eds) After the World Trade Center. Rethinking New York City Deepak Narang Sawhney (ed.) Unmasking L.A.: third worlds and the city Francesco lo Piccolo and Huw Thomas (eds) Knights and castles — minorities and urban regeneration Peter Roberts and Hugh Sykes (eds) Urban regeneration: a handbook Leslie M. Harris In the shadow of slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863 John Doling and Janet Ford (eds) Globalisation and home ownership: experiences in eight member states of the European Union William J. Mitchell ME++, the cyborg self and the networked city Bob Jessop The future of the capitalist state     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Managing to Change? British Workplaces and the Future of Work
Michael White, Stephen Hill, Colin Mills and Deborah Smeaton
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 214 pp., £52.50 (hardback)
Reviewed by Chris Forde
University of Leeds The New Managerialism and Public Service Professions
Ian Kirkpatrick, Stephen Ackroyd and Richard Walker
Palgrave, 2005, 232 pp., £50.00 (hardback)
Reviewed by Kim Hoque
Nottingham University Business School Culture and the Labour Market
Siobhan Austen
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003, 168 pp., £45.00
Reviewed by Martin Leroch
University of Hamburg Inside the Workplace: First Findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey
Barbara Kersley, Carmen Alpin, John Forth, Alex Bryson, Helen Bewley, Gill Dix and Sarah Oxenbridge
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), 2005, 41 pp., Free, available from DTI
Reviewed by Andrew Pendleton
University of York The Wales TUC, 1974–2004
Joe England
University of Wales Press, 2004, 136 pp., £12.99
Reviewed by Brian Towers
University of Nottingham     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise?
Susan Fernie and David Metcalf (eds)
Routledge, 2005, 268 pp., £21.99
Reviewed by Miguel Martinez Lucio
University of Bradford School of Management, UK Development of Culture, Welfare States and Women’s Employment in Europe
Birgit Pfau‐Effinger
Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2004, 217 pp., £49.95
Reviewed by Maria Hudson
Policy Studies Institute, UK Strategic Unionism and Partnership. Boxing or Dancing?
Tony Huzzard, Denis Gregory and Regan Scott (eds)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xxiii + 362 pp., £55.00
Reviewed by Mark Stuart
University of Leeds, UK Labour Laws and Global Trade
Bob Hepple
Hart Publishing, 2005, 328 pp., £20.00
Reviewed by A. C. L. Davies
Oxford University, UK How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan
Kathleen Thelen
Cambridge University Press, 2004, 239 pp., £50.00
Reviewed by Irena Grugulis
Bradford University School of Management, UK     

Bookshelf 2003

Books reviewed: Wolfgang Lecher, Bernhard Nagel and Hans‐Wolfgang Platzer. The Establishment of European Works Councils: From information committee to social actor. Wolfgang Lecher, Hans‐Wolfgang Platzer, Stefan Rüb and Klaus‐Peter Weiner. European Works Councils: Developments, types and networking. Wolfgang Lecher, Hans‐Wolfgang Platzer, Stefan Rüb and Klaus‐Peter Weiner. European Works Councils: Negotiated Europeanisation. Between statutory framework and social dynamic. Gregor Murray, Jacques Bélanger, Anthony Giles and Paul‐André Lapointe (eds). Work and Employment Relations in the High‐Performance Workplace. Bob Hancké. Large Firms and Institutional Change: Industrial Renewal and Economic Restructuring in France. Daryl D’Art and Thomas Turner (eds). Irish Employment Relations in the New Economy. Margaret Linehan, Michael J. Morley and James S. Walsh. International Human Resource Management and Expatriate Transfers: Irish Experiences.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: European Trade Unions, Michael Whittall What Workers Want,John Monks The Clerks: A history of APEX 1890‐1989,Kay Gilbert