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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     

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Book reviewed in this article: Industrial Relations in the New Europe A. Ferner and R. Hyman (Eds.) Bulletin of Comparative Industrial Relations. No. 23. 1992 Special Issue. Workers' Participation: Influence on Management Decision-Making by Labour in the Private Sector R. Blanpain (Ed.) Technology and Work in German Industry N. Altmann, C. Koehler and P. Meil (Eds.) Training and Enterprise Councils: The Story So Far, Policy Studies Special Issue Economic Decline in Modern Britain: The Shipbuilding Industry, 1890–1970 Edward H. Lorenz The Evolution of Public Management: Concepts and Techniques for the 1990s Colin Duncan (Ed.) The Wapping Dispute Suellen M. Littleton Unfair Dismissal Malcolm Mead Longman Justice in Dismissal Hugh Collins Clarendon Press Life and work history analyses: Qualitative and quantitative developments S. Dex (Ed.) Women and Japanese Management: Discrimination and Reform Alice Lam Routledge     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Industrial Relations Practices of Foreign-Owned Firms in Britain Peter J Buckley and Peter Enderwick Japanese Participation in British Industry John H Dunning Employee Consultation and Information in Multinational Corporations edited by Jacques Vandamme The Transformation of American Industrial Relations Thomas A Kochan, Harry C Katz and Robert B McKersie The Making of Labour Law in Europe edited by Bob Hepple Mansell Management and Society in Sweden Peter Lawrence and Tony Spybey Routledge and Kegan Paul The Trade Union Situation and Industrial Relations in Hungary The Trade Union Situation and Industrial Relations in Norway The Trade Union Situation and Industrial Relations in Spain The Trade Union Situation and Industrial Relations in Yugoslavia Labor-Owned Firms and Workers' Cooperatives S Jansson and A B Hellmark (eds) Towards a Democratic Rationality The Cooperative Workplace—potentials and dilemmas of organizational democracy and participation J Rothschild and J Allen Whitt Power and Performance in Organisations: An Exploration of Executive Process I Mangham Warwick Papers in Industrial Relations—School of Industrial and Business Studies, Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick     

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Striking Out Strikes: Changing Employment Relations in the British Labour Market C. G. Hanson and G. Mather Technical Workers: Class, Labour and Trade Unions Chris Smith Strategies, Issues and Events in Industrial Relations: Disclosure of Information in Context J. Jackson-Cox, J. McQueeny The British Worker Question Theo Nichols Routledge & Kegan Paul Teacher Militancy: A History of Teacher Strikes 1896-1987 Roger V. Seifert     

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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     

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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     

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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)     

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Book reviewed in this article: Privatisation and Employment Relations: The Case of the Water Industry Julia O'Connell Davidson Mansell The Trade Union Question in British Politics Robert Taylor Trade Union Behaviour, Pay Bargaining and Economic Performance Robert J. Flanagan, Karl Ove Moene and Michael Wallerstein Dock Strike: Conflict and Restructuring in Britain's Ports Peter Turnbull, Charles Woolfson and John Kelly Avebury/Gower Building the union: Skilled Workers and Anglo-Gaelic Immigrants in the Rise of the UAW Union Business: Trade Union Organisation and Financial Reform in the Thatcher Years P. Willman, T. Morris and B. Aston Power and Profit: Politics, Labour and Business in South Africa Duncan Innis, Matthew Kentridge, Helene Perold, (Eds.) Japanization At Work John Bratton Retraining - not Redundancy: Innovative approaches to industrial restructuring in Germany and France Gerhard Bosch International Institute for Labour Studies Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Great Britain (2nd Ed.) Bob Hepple and Sandra Fredman Industrial Law (5th edition) I T Smith; John C Wood Labour Law: Management Decisions and Workers' Right     

BOOK NOTES

PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: A Guide to Manpower Planning: A. M. Bowey PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: The Personnel Management Process—human resources administration (3rd ed.): W. French PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Personnel Management and Organisation Development: fields in transition: W. L. French D. Hellriegel. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Planning for Human Resources: L. Margerison D. Ashton (ed.) PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Organisation of Management Development Programmes: D. S. Markwell T. J. Roberts. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Personnel Management in Hospitals: G. Millard. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Personnel Planning and Occupational Choice: S. Timperley. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Problems and Policies in Personnel Management—a case book (2nd ed.): J. W. Towle S. M. Schoen R. L. Higgert. PERSONNEL AND MANPOWER MANAGEMENT: Occupational Choice. A selection from The Sociological Review: W. M. Williams, ed. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Participation in Management: Industrial democracy in three Western European Countries: W. Albeda, ed. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Worker Participation and Collective Bargaining in Europe Commission on Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Worker Participation: individual control and performance: D. Guest D. Fatchett INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Working Power: policies for industrial democracy: G. Radice, ed. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Worker Participation in Britain Social Policy Research Ltd. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Workers' Management and Workers' Wages in Yugoslavia—the theory and practice of participatory socialism: H. M. Wachtel TRADE UNIONS: Social Stratification and Trade Unionism: G. Bain D. Coates V. Ellis. TRADE UNIONS: Trade Unionism: J. A. Banks TRADE UNIONS: Trade Unions and Society—the struggle for acceptance, 1850–1880: W. M. Fraser. TRADE UNIONS: The First Shop Stewards Movement: J. Hinton TRADE UNIONS: The Union of Post Office Workers—a study in political sociology: M. Moran TRADE UNIONS: Political Purpose in Trade Unions: I. Richter TRADE UNIONS: Labour: the Unions and the Party—study of the trade unions and the British Labour movement: B. Simpson TRADE UNIONS: White-Collar workers and the U.A.W. C. D. Synder THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: The Multinational Company in Europe—some key problems: M. Z. Brooke H. L. Remmers (ed.) THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Multinational Corporations and National Government. A case study of the United Kingdom's experience 1964–1970: M. Hodges THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: MuItinational Enterprises and Social Policy THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: American Labour and the Multinational Corporation: O. Kujawa, ed. THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: International Business and Multinational Enterprises: S. H. Robock K. Simmonds THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Multinational Business: V. Salera THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Managing the Multinational Enterprise: Organisation of the firms and ownership of the subsidiaries: J. M. Stopford L. T. Well, Jr. INCOME DISTRIBUTI0N: Unequal Shares: wealth in Britain: A. B. Atkinson INCOME DISTRIBUTI0N: Low Pay and How to End it—a union review: A. Fisher B. Dix. INCOME DISTRIBUTI0N: Poverty, Inequality and Class Structure: A. Wedderburn, ed. INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Measurements of Labour Disputes and their Economic Effects: M. Fisher INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Strikes and Industrial Conflict: Britain and Scandinavia: G. K. Ingham. INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Strike—A live history 1887–1971: R. A. Leeson. INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: Case Studies in Industrial Law and Relations: J. Ritson BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Unfair Dismissal and the Law: S. D. Anderman BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Pay and Price Control Guide: B. Bracewell-Milnes BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: The Industrial Relations Act—a comprehensive guide: C. Crabtree. BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Industrial Tribunals—a practical guide: R. M. Greenhalgh. BRITISH LABOUR LEGISLATION: Industrial Relations: R. C. Simpson J. C. Wood. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Managing the Health Service: S. C. Haywood. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Management by Objectives in Local Government: J. W. Glendinning R. E. M. Bullock. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: General Review of Conditions of Employment of Public Services: International Labour Organisation. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Career Problems in the Public Service: International Labour Organisation. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Staff Relations in the Civil Service—fifty years of Whitleyism: M. Parris. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: Public Employee Unionism: Structure, growth, policy Studies of Unionism in Government: J. Stieber PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: The Unions and the Cities. Studies of unionism in government: H. M. Wellington R. K. Winter, Jr. COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: Japanese Blue Collar-the changing tradition R. E. Cole COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: African Railwaymen: solidarity and opposition in an East African labour force R. D. Grillo COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: The Aristocracy of Labourthe position of the skilled craftsman in the American class structure G. MacKenzie COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY: The Ghanaian Factory Worker: Industrial Man in Africa M. Peil     

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Book reviewed in this article: European Industrial Relations: the Challenge of Flexibility Guido Baglioni and Colin Crouch (Eds.) Labor Relations in Europe: a History of Issues and Developments Hans Slomp Greenwood Non-Standard Forms of Employment in Europe. Part-time Work, Fixed Term Contracts and Temporary Work Contracts Partial Unemployment: The Regulation of Short-Time Working in Britain Erika M. Szyszczak A Portrait of Pay, 1970–1982: An Analysis of the New Earnings Survey M. B. Gregory and A. W. J. Thomson, (Eds.) Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Policy in the Nordic Countries L. Calmfors (Ed.) Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation and the Exchange Rate W. Carlin and D. Unemployment and Wage Determination in Europe B. Holmlund and K. G. Lofgren (Eds.) Labor Economics: A Comparative Text Robert F. Elliot Trade Unions and Their Members P. Fosh and E. Heery (Eds.) The Sexuality of Organization J. Hearn, L. Sheppard, P. Tancred-Sheriff and G. Burrell (Eds.) Reshaping Work: The Cadbury Experience C. Smith, J. Child and M. Rowlinson Information Technology in European Services: Towards a Microelectronic Future John Child and Ray Loveridge     

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The Crisis of Labour: Industrial Relations and the State in Contemporary Britain David Coates Philip Allan Manufacturing Change: Industrial Relations and Restructuring Stephanie Tailby and Colin Whitston The Competitiveness of European Industry Arthur Francis and P. K. M. Tharakan Routledge Managing People at Work Peter Makin, Cary Cooper and Charles Cox Strikes Richard Hyman Macmillan The Seamen—a history of the National Union of Seamen Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan Malthouse Crisis in the French Labour Movement: A Grassroot's Perspective W. Rand Smith Macmillan Individual Employment Law Barry Titman and Peter Camp     

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Book reviewed in this article: Employment Security and Labor Market Behavior Christoph F. Buechtemann (Ed.) The Survival of the Danish Model. A historical sociological analysis of the Danish system of collective bargaining Jesper Due, Jørgen Steen Madsen, Carsten Strøby Jensen, Lars Kjerulff Petersen. The Equality Dilemma. Reconciling working life and family life, viewed in an equality perspective. The Danish example , Søren Carlsen and Jørgen Elm Larsen (Eds.) International and Comparative Industrial Relations. A Study of Industrialised Market Economies, (second edition) G. Bamber & R. Lansbury (Eds.) Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family Ben Fine     

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Book review in this article: International Human Resource Management Derek Torrington Policy and Practice in European Human Resource Management C. Brewster and A. Hegewisch (eds) The Volvo Experience–alternatives to lean production in the Swedish auto industry Christian Berggren Enriching Production–perspectives on Volvo's Uddevalla Plant as an alternative to lean production Ake Sandberg (Ed.) The Economics of the Trade Union Alison L. Booth The Economics of the Trade Union Alison L. Booth The Dynamics of Workplace Trade Unionism–Shop Stewards' Trade Unions in Britain (2nd edition) John McIlroy     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Future of European Social Policy (second revised edition) Lammy Betten (Ed.) Employment Rights in Britain and Europe: Selected Papers in Labour Law Lord Wedderburn Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility: Austria Ewald Walterskirchen Japan and the Global Economy: Issues and Trends in the 1990s Jonathan Morris (Ed.) Growth through Competition, Competition through Growth: Strategic Management and the Economy in Japan Hiroyuki Odagiri Training at Work: a Critical Analysis of Policy and Practice Jeff Hyman The Impact of Demographic Change on Training-A Cross European Comparison Nina West Contemporary British Industrial Relations Sid Kessler and Fred Bayliss Rethinking Labour Management Relations, The case for Arbitration Christopher J. Bruce and Jo Carby Hall The New Politics of British Trade Unionism , David Marsh The History of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, Volume I parts 1 and 2, 1870–1911 From Forerunners to Federation; 1912–1922 From Federation to Amalgamation Ken Coates and Tony Topham (Eds.) An Introduction to Industrial Relations Michael P Jackson In the Way of Women: Men's resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations Cynthia Cockburn Working in Hotels Roy C. Wood Engineers and Professional Self-Regulation: from the Finniston Committee to the Engineering Council Grant Jordan     

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A Restatement of Economic Liberalism Samuel Brittan Macmillan Japanese Style Management Transferred: The Experience of East Asia K. John Fukuda Routledge Japanese Management in America and Britain Donald Duncan Gordon Gower The Japanization of British Industry Nick Oliver Barry Wilkinson The Finances of British Trade Unions 1975–1985 Paul Willman Industrial Relations in Small Firms—Small Isn’t Beautiful Al Rainnie Routledge Managers of Discontent: Trade Union Officers and Industrial Relations Managers Diane Watson Routledge Recruitment and Selection in the Labour Market Paul Windolf and Stephen Wood Gower Safety at work: the limits of self-regulation Sandra Dawson, Paul Willman, Martin Bamford and Alan Clinton Debating Coal Closures: Economic Calculation in the Coal Dispute 1984–5 David Cooper and Trevor Hopper Helping the Unemployed Professional Roland Pearson and Anne Heyno Wiley Incompressible Unemployment John Naylor and Barbara Senior Avebury The Individual in the Economy: A Survey of Economic Psychology Stephen E. G. Lea, Roger M. Tarpy Financial and Economic Analysis of Enterprises Karl Hedderwick     

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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: 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     

Book Reviews

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: Alan Campbell, Nina Fishman, and John McIlroy, British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics Vol I: The Post‐War Compromise, 1945–64. Vol II: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964–79 Jack Eaton, Comparative Employment Relations Robert Taylor, The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism Stephen Bach, Lorenzo Bordogna, Guiseppe Della Rocca and David Winchester, (eds) Public Service Employment Relations in Europe: Transformation, modernization or inertia?     

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Books reviewed: Industrial Relations in Central and Eastern Europe: Transformation and Integration. A Comparison of the Eight New Member States
Heribert Kohl and Hans‐Wolfgang Platzer (eds)
ETUI, 2004, 422 pp., ‰27.00 Union Organisation and Activity
John Kelly and Paul Willman (eds)
Routledge, 2004, xvi + 187 pp., £65.00 (hardback), £25.00 (paperback) Gender, Diversity and Trade Unions
Fiona Colgan and Sue Ledwith (eds)
Routledge, 2002, xv + 320 pp., £70.00