Book Reviews

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.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: PEOPLE'S CAPITALISM? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PROFIT SHARING AND EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP L. Baddon, L. Hunter, J. Hyman, J. Leopold and H. Ramsay A STAKE IN THE COMPANY: SHAREHOLDING, OWNERSHIP AND ESOPS J. Cornford THE PEPPER REPORT: PROMOTION OF EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION IN PROFITS AND ENTERPRISE RESULTS IN THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY. SOCIAL EUROPE SUPPLEMENT 3/91 M. Uvalic PROFIT SHARING AND EMPLOYEE SHAREHOLDING REGISTER INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF PARTICIPATION IN ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 1. ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOCRACY: TAKING STOCK C. Lammers and G. Szell INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF PARTICIPATION IN ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 2. OWNERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION R. Russell and V. Rus THE ORIGINS OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY: PROFIT SHARING AND EMPLOYEE-SHAREHOLDING SCHEMES M. Poole THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY: PROFIT SHARING AND EMPLOYEE-SHAREHOLDING SCHEMES M. Poole and G. Jenkins INTERNAL EVALUATION: BUILDING ORGANISATIONS FROM WITHIN Arnold J. Love CRAFTING SELVES: POWER, GENDER, AND DISCOURSES OF IDENTITY IN A JAPANESE WORKPLACE Dorrine K. Kondo RESHAPING WORK: THE CADBURY EXPERIENCE Chris Smith, John Child and Michael Rowlinson     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
GLOBAL EFFECTS OF LIBERALISING TRADE IN FARM PRODUCTS K. Anderson and R. Tyers
THE STRATEGY & CONSISTENCY OF FEDERAL RESERVE MONETARY POLICY 1924–1933 David C. Wheelock
DIVERSE PATHS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Richard Pomfret
EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND MIGRATION P.C. Emmer and M. Mörner (Eds.)
ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS, VOLUME 4: WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WORLD ECONOMY Nancy Folbre, Barbara Bergmann, Bina Agarwal and Maria Flora (Eds.)
EXCHANGE RATE TARGETS & CURRENCY BANDS Paul Krugman and Marcus Miller (Eds.)
THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL MONETARY SYSTEMS Alfred Steinherr and Daniel Weisherbs (Eds.)
THE LEGACY OF THE GOLDEN AGE-THE 1960s AND THEIR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES Frances Cairncross and Alec Cairncross
BEYOND THE LIMITS: GLOBAL COLLAPSE OR A SUSTAINABLE-FUTURE Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers
THE FORTUNES OF LIBERALISM; VOLUME IV OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF F.A. HAYEK Peter G. Klein (Ed.)
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; THE BUILDING OF A UNION John Pinder
FORESTS: MARKETS & INTERVENTION FAILURES: FIVE CASE STUDIES SÖren Wibe and Tom Jones (Eds.)
FEDERALISM IMPERIL: WILL CANADA SURVIVE A.R. Riggs and Tom Velk
DEN OF THIEVES James B. Stewart
PRICES AND KNOWLEDGES: A MARKET-PROCESS PERSPECTIVE Esteban F. Thomsen
FROM BOOM TO BUST: TRIAL AND ERROR IN BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY David Smith     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article: Austrian Economics ECONOMIC THOUGHT BEFORE ADAM SMITH: AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, Vol.I CLASSICAL ECONOMICS: AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, Vol.II Murray N.Rothbard AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS IN AMERICA: THE MIGRATION OF A TRADITION Karen I.Vaughn THE MARKET PROCESS; ESSAYS IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko (eds.) CLASSICS IN AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Israel M. Kirzner (ed.) THE ELGAR COMPANION TO AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Peter J. Boettke (ed.) Environmental Economics SMALL IS STUPID: BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE GREENS Wilfred Beckerman RISK John Adams SCARCITY OR ABUNDANCE? A DEBATE ON THE ENVIRONMENT Norman Myers and Julian L. Simon Money and Banking THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF CARTELIZATION IN BRITISH BANKING Martin Davies MONEY, CREDIT AND ASSET PRICES Gordon Pepper HISTORY OF BANKING 1050–1850 Forrest H. Capie (ed.) A HISTORY OF MONEY: FROM AD 800 John F. Chown THE FUTURE OF CENTRAL BANKING: THE TERCENTENARY SYMPOSIUM OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart, Stanley Fischer and Norbert Schnadt Economic Policy THE STATE WE'RE IN Will Hutton CAPITALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE Samuel Brittan THE AGE OF DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS Paul Krugman PEDDLING PROSPERITY: ECONOMIC SENSE AND NONSENSE IN THE AGE OF DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS Paul Krugman AMERICAN ECONOMIC POLICY IN THE 1980S Martin Feldstein (ed.) THEORIES OF THE MIXED ECONOMY David Reisman (ed.) Taxation TAX PROGRESSIVITY AND INCOME INEQUALITY Joel B. Slemrod (ed.) THE POWER TO DESTROY: A STUDY OF THE BRITISH TAX SYSTEM D.R. Myddelton Industry, Finance & Labour INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES (2nd Edition) Paul R. Ferguson and Glenys J. Ferguson GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND INVESTMENT STRATEGIES Richard J. Bauer Jr. TRADING ON THE EDGE: NEURAL, GENETIC, AND FUZZY SYSTEMS FOR CHAOTIC FINANCIAL MARKETS Guido J. Deboeck (ed.) THE MARKET FOR TRAINING Robert McNabb and Keith Whitfield (eds.) Medicine & Health THE DEATH OF HUMANE MEDICINE AND THE RISE OF COERCIVE HEALTHISM Petr Skrabanek PREVENTIONITIS: THE EXAGGERATED CLAIMS OF HEALTH PROMOTION James Le Fanu (ed.) THE TRANS FORMATION OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY Herbert Kitschelt SOCIAL DEMOCRACY SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND RATIONAL CHOICE: THE SCANDINAVIAN EXPERIENCE AND BEYOND Henry Milner LOST OPPORTUNITY: WHY ECONOMIC REFORMS IN RUSSIA HAVE NOT WORKED Marshall I. Goldman Europe THE ECONOMICS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: POLICY AND ANALYSIS M.J. Artis and N. Lee (eds.)     

BOOKS IN REVIEW

THE REFORM OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AT PLANT AND COMPANY LEVEL by P.A.L. Parker, W.R. Hawes and A. L. Lumb WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS By Albert A. Blum, et al. DEVELOPING AND TRAINING THE SUPERVISOR by C. M. Bowen THE SOCIOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS by V. L. Allen ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR by Joe Kelly ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: AN EXPERIENTIAL APPROACH by D. A. Kolb, I. M. Rubin and J. M. McIntyre BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY 1960–69 by C. D. Cohen BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC PROSPECTS RECONSIDERED edited by Sir Alec Cairncross     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: LABOUR AND THE LAW Hamlyn Lectures No. 24 Otto Kahn-Freund PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT LAW by F. W. Rose MANAGEMENT BY AGREEMENT by W. E. J. McCarthy and D. Ellis STRAIGHT JACKET OR FRAMEWORK : The implications for management of the Industrial Relations Act by E. G. A. Armstrong INCOMES POLICY, EQUITY AND PAY INCREASE DIFFERENTIALS by Hilde Behrend INCOMES POLICY AND CAPITAL SHARING IN EUROPE by Derek Robinson PAY, PRODUCTIVITY AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING by Robert B. McKersie and Laurence C. Hunter GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN: THE FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES IN POLITICS, 1945–65 by Stephen Bland WHITE COLLAR UNIONS—A REVIEW Institute of Personnel Management WHITE COLLAR UNIONISM IN BRITAIN: A SURVEY OF THE PRESENT POSITION by Roger Lumley PARTICIPATION IN INDUSTRY by C. Balfour THE APPLICABILITY OF ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY by Chris Argyris WORKING FOR FORD by H. Beynon REDUNDANCY AND PATERNALIST CAPITALISM: A STUDY IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK by Roderick Martin and R. H. Fryer     

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Book reviews in this article: A PROFESSIONAL UNION: THE EVOLUTION OF THE INSTITUTION OF PROFESSIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS James E. Mortimer and Valerie A. Ellis George Allen and Unwin SKILL AND THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS, 1870–1914 Charles More, Croom Helm THE ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIETY R. Presthus THE DECLINE OF THE BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY Peter J. S. Dunnett, Croom Helm OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DEGREE AND PATTERN OF THE DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN'S WORK IN BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES Catherine Hakim GOOD JOBS, BAD JOBS, NO JOBS E. Ginzberg     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
THE NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF MONEY AND FINANCE Peter Newman, Murray Milgate & John Eatwell (Eds)
POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE INTERNATIONAL FOOD SYSTEM T. Marsden & J. Little Avebury
ROBERTSON ON ECONOMIC POLICY S.R. Dennison & John R. Presley (Eds)
ESSAYS ON ROBERTSON-IAN ECONOMICS John R. Presley (Ed.)
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ECONOMICS Robert E. Kuenne
TRANSFORMATIONAL GROWTH & EFFECTIVE DEMAND Edward J. Nell
THE ANATOMY OF THATCHERISM Shirley Robin Letwin
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: VOLUME II: THE ECONOMIST AS SAVIOUR, 1920–37 Robert Skidelsky
PUTTING FOOD ON WHAT WAS THE SOVIET TABLE Michael P. Claudon & Tamar L. Gutner (Eds)
DRAGONS IN DISTRESS: ASIA'S MIRACLE ECONOMIES IN CRISIS Walden Bello & Stephanie Rosenfeld     

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DANGEROUS COMPANY: THE CONSULTING POWERHOUSES AND THE COMPANIES THEY SAVE AND RUIN James O'Shea and Charles Madigan LEADERSHIP: THEORY AND PRACTICE Peter G. Northouse HANDBOOK OF ORGANIZATION STUDIES Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy and Walter R. Nord (eds) THE HANDBOOK OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Arndt Sorge and Malcolm Warner (eds)     

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Book reviews in this article: EUROPEAN INSIGHTS: MANPOWER Edited by Barrie O. Pettman, WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS: DOCUMENTS ON TRADE UNIONS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN BRITAIN SINCE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY J. T. Ward and W. Hamish Fraser (eds.), INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE NHS—THE SEARCH FOR A SYSTEM Nick Bosanquet(ed.), STRIKES IN BRITAIN C. T. B. Smith, Richard Clifton, Peter Makeham, S. W. Creigh and R. V. Burn, MORE BAD NEWS Glasgow University Media Group, Routledge and Kegan Paul MANAGING AND DEVELOPING NEW FORMS OF WORK ORGANISATION G. Kanawaty (ed.), NEW FORMS OF WORK ORGANISATION 1 NEW FORMS OF WORK ORGANISATION 2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: THE FIREMEN N. F. Dufty,     

BOOK REVIEWS & NOTES

FINANCING STRIKERS John Gennard INDUSTRY AND LABOUR: Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Captalism Andrew L Friedman THE INEQUALITY OF PAY Henry Phelps-Brown THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF ORGANISATIONS Robert De Board PROPHECY AND PROGRESS: THE SOCIOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL AND POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY Krishan Kumar COMMON SENSE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Dennis D Hunt     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: UNEMPLOYMENT: CAUSE AND CURE Patrick Minford BRITAIN CAN WORK Ian Gilmour THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: WORKER RESISTANCE IN THE WORKPLACE P. K. Edwards and Hugh Scullion MANAGING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Mick Marchington MANAGERS IN FOCUS: THE BRITISH MANAGER IN THE EARLY 1980s Michael Poole THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LABOUR PROCESS IN CAPITALIST SOCIETIES Craig R. Littler THE MODERNIZATION OF SOVIET INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT William J. Conyngham THE SOCIALIST CORPORATION AND TECHNOCRATIC POWER Jean Woodhall     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: LABOUR IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: The Migration of Workers in the United Kingdom and the European Community by W. R. Böhning LABOUR IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: Labor Movements in the Common Market Countries by Marguerite Bouvard LABOUR IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: Employment Conditions in Europe by Margaret Stewart TRANSNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Proceedings of a Symposium held at Geneva by the International Institute for Labour Studies by Hans Günter MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND BRITISH LABOUR: REVIEW OF ATTITUDES AND RESPONSES by John Gennard INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT—A COMPARATIVE LEGAL SURVEY by B. Aaron and K. W. Wedderburn WORKERS PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT IN BRITAIN by R. O. Clarke, D. J. Fatchett and B. C. Roberts DO TRADE UNIONS CAUSE INFLATION? by D. Jackson, H. A. Turner and F. Wilkinson HANDBOOK OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS by D. Torrington ORGANISATIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE by Cyril Sofer THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WORK by Michael Argyle     

BOOKS

Book reviiewed in this article:
A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF DISSENTING ECONOMISTS Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (Eds.)
EOUITY AND CHOICE Julian Le Grand Harper-Collins.
ORIGIN AND ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT Paul A Menkveld
UK FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS Michael Pawley, David Winstone & Patrick Bentley.
THE MORALITY OF BUSINESS Norman Barry Aberdeen.
THE NEW PALGRAVE: THE WORLD OF ECONOMICS John Eatwell, Murray Milgate & Peter Newman (Eds.)
THE ECONOMIC IDEAS OF ORDINARY PEOPLE: FROM PREFERENCES TO TRADE David M. Levy
GOVERN MENT AND ECONOMIES IN THE POSTWAR WORLD: ECONOMIC POLICIES AND COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE 1945–85 Andrew Graham with Anthony Seldon
PROTECTIONISM AND INTERNATIONAL BANKING Gerhard Fels & George Situja.
THE CITY OF LONDON: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE, 1850–1990 Ranald C. Michie
THE LIFE OF AN ECONOMIST Charles P. Kindleberger
PARLIAMENT OF WHORES P.J. O'Rourke Picador.     

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BOARDS OF DIRECTORS IN BRITISH INDUSTRY Christopher Brookes COMPANY ORGANISATION AND WORKER PARTICIPATION Ian B. Knight MANAGING PEOPLE AT WORK John Hunt McGraw-Hill WORK AND POWER: THE LIBERATION OF WORK AND THE CONTROL OF POLITICAL POWER Edited by Tom R. Burns, Lars Erik Karlsson and Veljko Rus Sage Publications NEW DEAL FOR STEEL, THE IRON AND STEEL CONFEDERATION , FRANCES TIPTON UNDERSTANDING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS D. Farnham and J. Pimlott Cassell     

GOOD BOOKS — AND OTHERS

Book reviewed in this article:
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE NEW MACROECONOMICS Patrick Jsdinford and David Peel
THE ROLE AND LIMITS OF GOVERNMENT Samuel Brittan
APPOINTMENT IN JAPAN G. C. Allen
DISORGANIZED CRIME: THE ECONOMICS OF THE VISIBLE HAND Peter Reuters
THE ANATOMY OF POWER J. K. Galbraith     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
BRITISH MONETARY POLICY, 1945–51 Susan Howson
THE RED QUEEN SEX AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN NATURE Matt Ridley
PROFILES IN SMALL BUSINESS: A COMPETITIVE STRATEGY APPROACH Gavin C. Reid, Lowell R. Jacobsen and Margo E. Anderson     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
HEATED DEBATE Robert C. Balling Jr
FOUNDATIONS OF CORPORATE SUCCESS: HOW BUSINESS STRATEGIES ADD VALUE John Kay
NEW IDEAS FROM DEAD ECONOMISTS Todd G. Buchholz
AMERICAN POWER, THE MEW WORLD ORDER AND THE JAPANESE CHALLENGE William R. Nester
US ECONOMIC POLICY TOWARD AFRICA Jeffrey Herbst
POST-KEYNESIAN ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHY: PORTRAITS OF 20th CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMISTS G.C. Harcourt
PRACTICAL ECONOMETRICS Gabor Korösi, Laszlo Matyas, and Istvan P. Szekely     

Books in Review

Book reviewed in this article:
THE RISE AND FALL OF FLEET STREET Charles Wintour
LIMITING EXCHANGE RATE FLEXIBILITY: THE EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM Francesco Giavazzi & Alberto Giovannini
ROGERNOMICS: RESHAPING NEW ZEALAND'S ECONOMY Simon Walker (Ed.)
WORKING FOR PROFIT: THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF CALCULATION IN AN ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRM R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes & W. W. Sharrock
MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND STABILIZATION POLICY Manchester University Press
FISCAL POLICY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF CEDRIC SANDFORD David Collard (ed.)
EQUALITY IN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE Antony Flew
PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS: on the Scope of Reason in Economic Inquiry Subroto Roy     

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ORGANIZING GENIUS: THE SECRETS OF CREATIVE COLLABORATION Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman THE FAITH OF THE MANAGERS: WHEN MANAGEMENT BECOMES RELIGION Stephen Pattison DIVERSITY AND WOMEN'S CAREER DEVELOPMENT Helen S. Farmer CONVENTION SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES Louis R. Franzini and Sue Rosenberg Zalk