Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Japan's Reshaping of American Labor Law, by William B. Gould Women and Employment: A Lifetime Perspective (The report of the 1980 DE/OPCS Women and Employment Survey) by Jean Martin and Ceridwen Roberts Sex Discrimination and Equal Opportunity: The Labour Market and Employment Policy, edited by Gunther Schmid and Renate Weitzel White-Collar Proletariat, Deskilling and Gender in Clerical Work by R. Crompton and G. Jones The Management Implications of New Information Technology, edited by Nigel Piercy Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism, edited by John H. Goldthorpe Industrial Conflict Resolution in Market Economies: a study of Australia, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan and the USA, edited by T. Hanami and R. Blanpain International Yearbook of Organisational Democracy. Vol 2, International Perspectives on Organisational Democracy, edited by Berhard Wilpert and Arndt Sorge Cooperation at Work: The Mondragon Experience by Keith Bradley and Alan Gelb The View from Cowley: The Impact of Industrialization upon Oxford 1919-39 by R. C. Whiting Unions and politics in Mexico: The case of the automobile industry by Ian Roxborough Labour and Leisure in the Soviety Union by William Moskoff What Do Unions Do? by Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff     

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Book reviewed in this article: Union of Parts: Labor Politics in Postwar Germany by Kathleen A. Thelen British Industrial Relations, 2nd edn, by Howard F. Gospel and Gill Palmer Prices, Quality and Trust: Inter-Firm Relations in Britain and Japan by Mari Sako Technology and Work in German Industry edited by Norbert Altmann, Christoph Kohler and Pamela Meil Labour in Transition: The Labour Process in Eastern Europe and China edited by Chris Smith and Paul Thompson. Investment and Property Rights in Yugoslavia: The Long Transition to a Market Economy by Milica Uvali? Understanding Industrial Organizations: Theoretical Perspectives in Industrial Sociology by Richard K. Brown Managing the Shopfloor: Subjectivity, Masculinity and Workplace Culture by David Collinson. Walter de Gruyter Social Corporatism: A Superior Economic System edited by Jukka Pekkarinen, Matti Pohjola and Bob Rowthorn. Rethinking Labour-Management Relations: The Case for Arbitration by Christopher J. Bruce and Jo Carby-Hall Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Great Britain, 2nd edn, by Bob Hepple and Sandra Fredman Industrial Relations and European State Traditions by Colin Crouch     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Labour Law and the Community: Perspectives for the 1980s, edited by Lord Wedderburn and W.T. Murphy Picketing: Industrial Disputes, Tactics and the Law, by Peggy Kahn, Norman Lewis, Rowland Livock and Paul Wiles The Law of Industrial Relations, by J G Riddall Industrial Productivity, by Michael M. Gruneberg and David J. Oborne Psychology and Industrial Productivity: A reader, edited by Michael M. Gruneberg and David J. Oborne The Degradation of Work? edited by Stephen Wood The Development of the Labour Process in Capitalist Societies, by Craig Littler The Shopfloor Politics of New Technology, by Barry Wilkinson Exploring Participation by Paul Bate and Iain Mangham Lost Managers: Supervisors in Industry and Society, by John Child and Bruce Partridge Soviet Trade Unions, by Blair A. Ruble     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Gendered Jobs and Social Change by Rosemary Crompton and Kay Sanderson The Transformation of Work? Skill, Flexibility and the Labour Process, edited by S. Wood Employment in Britain, edited by D. Gallie A Portrait of Pay 1970–1982: An Analysis of the New Earnings Survey, edited by Mary B. Gregory and Andrew W. J. Thomson And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry by John P. Hoerr Unions and Communities under Siege: American Communities and the Crisis of Organised Labour, by G. L. Clark The Origins of Economic Democracy: Profit-Sharing and Employee-Shareholding Schemes, by Michael Poole New Forms of Ownership: Management and Employment, edited by Glenville Jenkins and Michael Poole Work Organisations: A Critical Introduction, by Paul Thompson and David McHugh Training Matters: Union Perspectives on Industrial Restructuring and Training, by Helen Rainbird Divided Societies: Class Struggle in Contemporary Capitalism, by Ralph Miliband Flashpoints: Studies in Public Disorder, by David Waddington, Karen Jones and Chas Critcher The 1980s: a Decade of Change? Special Issue of Work, Employment and Society, journal of the British Sociological Association Managing to Discriminate by David L. Collinson, David Knights and Margaret Collinson     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Do Trade Unions Cause Inflation? by D. Jackson, H. A. Turner and F. Wilkinson Politika Dohodaka I Sindicati Iskuto Velike Britanje by Brana Markovi? Selected Essays on Employment and Growth by R. F. Kahn La Négotiation Collective en France, by Gerard Adam Labour Market Economics. A Short Survey of Recent Theory by John Corina Government as Employer, by Sterling D. Spero Transnational Industrial Relations edited by H. Günter British Trade Unionism: Select Documents by N. Robertson and K. I. Sams Waterfront Organisation in Hull 1870–1900 by Raymond Brown 4 Days, 40 Hours, edited by Riva Poor Committee on Safety and Health at Work 1970–1972     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Conflict or Co-operation: The Growth of Industrial Democracy, by John Elliot. Kogan Limits to Co-determination? Industrial Democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1977, by D. W. F. Bendix Socialist Labour and Politics in Weimar Germany. The General Federation of German Trade Unions, by Gerard Braunthal The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism: Work, Unions and Politics in Sweden, by Walter Korpi The Resurgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe since 1968 (2 volumes), C. Crouch and A The Soviet Industrial Worker: social class, education and control, David Lane and Felicity O'Dell L'évolution des emplois et la main d'oeuvre dans l'industrie automobile: problèmes el perspectives, by CEREQ Labour And The Law, by Sir Otto Kahn Freund Q.C Industrial Conflict in Britain edited by E. W. Evans and S. W. Creigh The Images of Occupational Prestige, by A. P. M. Coxon and C. L. Jones Managers and Work Reform: a limited engagement, by Ivar Berg, Marcia Freedman and Michael Freeman Influencing Organisational Change, by Charles Margerison     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Developments in the Management of Human Resources by John Storey Business Performance in the Retail Sector: The Experience of the John Lewis Partnership by Keith Bradley and Simon Taylor Incentive Pay: Impact and Evolution by Michael Cannell and Stephen Wood Democracy at Work: Changing World Markets and the Future of Labor Unions by Lowell Turner Labour Markets under Trade Unionism by John Pencavel Empirical Labor Economics: The Search Approach by T. J. Devine and N. M. Kiefer Policing the Workshy: Benefit Control, the Labour Market and the Unemployed by Alex Bryson and John Jacobs Industrial Districts and Local Economic Regeneration edited by Frank Pyke and Werner Sengenberger The Market and Beyond: Co-operation and Competition in Information Technology Development in the Japanese System by Martin Fransman Workplace Industrial Relations; Australian Case Studies edited by Russell Lansbury and Duncan McDonald The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party by Lewis Minkin Forged in Fire: The History of the Fire Brigades Union edited by Victor Bailey. Lawrence & Wishart Hidden Conflict in Organizations: Uncovering Behind-the-Scenes Disputes edited by Deborah M. Kolb and Jean M. Bartunek The Sociology of Organizations: Themes, Perspectives and Prospects by Michael I. Reed. Harvester Wheatsheaf Capital and Labor in American Copper, 1845–1990: Linkages between Product and Labor Markets by George H. Hildebrand and Garth L. Mangum     

Small Business and Society by David Goss

The History of the Transport and General Workers' Union: Volume One, Parts One and Two: The Emergence of the Labour Movement 1870–1922 by Ken Coates and Tony Topham
For the Good of the Game: The Official History of the Professional Footballers' Association by John Harding
Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialised Market Economies Volume 1: Labour Law edited by R. Blanpain
Les Systèmes de relations professionnelles: Examen critique d'une théorie edited by Jean-Daniel Reynaud, François Eyraud, Catherine Paradeise and Jean Saglio, Editions du CNRS
A Handbook of Dispute Resolution: ADR in Action edited by K. J. Mackie
Public Sector Industrial Relations by P . B. Beaumont
Multinational Banks and their Social and Labour Practices
In Search of Flexibility: The New Soviet Labour Market edited by Guy Standing
Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition by W. Dean Kinzley
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour edited by Philip Brown and Richard Scase
The Sociology of Work: An Introduction by Keith Grint
The Political Economy of Pensions: Power, Politics and Social Change in Canada, Britain and the United States by Richard Lee Deaton
Labour Relations in Eastern Europe: Organizational Design and Dynamics by K. Petkov and J. E. M. Thirkell
The State and the Spatial Management of Industrial Change edited by D. C. Rich and G. J. R. Linge
Public Policy under Thatcher edited by Stephen P. Savage and Lynton Robins
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism by Mike Featherstone     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Origins of Trade Union Power, by Henry Phelps Brown Why are the British Bad at Munufucturing, by Karel Williams, John Williams and Dennis Thomes Strikes in Post-War Britain: A Study of Stoppages of Work due to Industrial Disputes. 1948-73, by J.W. Durcan. W.E.J. McCarthy and C.P. Redman Strikes in Europe and the United States: Munugernent cind Incidence, by Kenneth Walsh. British Trade Unionism against the Trades Union Congress, by Gerald A. Dorfman Contemporary Industrial Relations in Japan, edited by T. Shirai. Understanding Industrial Relations by David Farnham & John Pimlott Kahn-Freund's Labour and the Law, by Paul Davies and Mark Freedland. International Yearbook of Organizational Democracy, Volume I, Organizational Democracy and Political Processes, edited by Colin Crouch and Frank A. Heller The Nature of Work. An Introduction to Debates on the Labour Process. by Paul Thompson. Discriminaiion and Disadvantage in Employment: The Experience of Black Workers. edited by P. Braham, E. Rhodes and M. Pearn.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: New Perspectives on Industrial Disputes edited by David Metcalf and Simon Milner. The New Industrial Relations by Neil Millward. Willing Slaves? by Andrew Scott. Human Resource Management: Key Concepts and Skills by P. B. Beaumont. Principles of Human Resource Management by D. Goss. Managing Human Resources and Industrial Relations by J. Storey and Keith Sisson. Privatization and Employment Relations: The Case of the Water Industry by Julia O'Connell Davidson. Trade Union Behaviour, Pay Bargaining and Economic Performance by R. J. Flanagan, K.O. Moene and M. Wallerstein. Employment Security and Labor Market Behaviour edited by Christoph F. Buechtemann. Cultural Perspectives on Organizations by Mats Alvesson. Breaking from Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industry by Ulrich Jürgens, Thomas Malsch and Knuth Dohse. Labor and an Integrated Europe edited by Lloyd Ulman, Barry Eichengreen and William T. Dickens. The Politics of French Trade Unionism by Jeff Bridgford.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The New American Workplace by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt Working under Different Rules edited by Richard B. Freeman Social Change and the Experience of Unemployment, edited by Duncan Gallie, Catherine Marsh and Carolyn Vogler Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey Comparable Worth: Is It a Worthy Policy? by Elaine Sorensen Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership edited by Dorothy Sue Cobble. Pay Equity — Just Wages for Women? by Aileen McColgan Male-Female Wage Differences: Analysis and Policy Issues by Tim Callan and Anne Wren The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States by Bruce E. Kaufman Industrial Relations Theory: Its Nature, Scope and Pedagogy edited by Roy J. Adams and Noah M. Meltz Key Reviews in Managerial Psychology edited by Cary Cooper and Ivan Robertson The Return to Incomes Policy edited by Ronald Dore, Robert Boyer, and Zoe Mars Case Studies in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, 2nd edn, edited by Dan Gowler, Karen Legge and Chris Clegg Total Quality and Human Resources: An Executive Guide by Barrie Dale and Cary Cooper The UK Labour Market: Comparative Aspects and Institutional Developments edited by Ray Barrell Economies of Signs and Space by Scott Lash and John Urry     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: G. D. H. Cole and Socialist Democracy, by A. W. Wright The Politics of the Corporate Economy, by Trevor Smith Servants of Post-Industrial Power? Sociologie du Travail in Modern France, by Michael Rose The Working Class in the Labour Market, by R. M. Blackburn and Michael Mann Trade Unions and the Economy, by Brian Burkitt and David Bowers The Economic Analysis of Trade Unions, by Charles Mulvey The Market for Labour: An Analytical Treatment, by John T. Addison and W. Stanley Siebert Marxism and Class Theory; a Bourgeois Critique, by Frank Parkin The Rise and Fall of the British Manager, by Alistair Mant Union Organization and Militancy, Conclusions from a Study of the United Mine Workers of America 1940–1974, by Makoto Takamiya Industrial Relations in Africa, edited by Ukandi G. Damachi, H. Dieter Seibel and Lester Trachtman Votes, Virtues and Vices: Trade Union Power, by Innis MacBeath The Fifth Estate: Britain's Unions in the Modern World, by Robert Taylor     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy , edited by Sanford M. Jacoby.
Britain's Training Deficit: The Centre for Economic Performance Report , edited by Richard Layard, Ken Mayhew and Geoffrey Owen.
Gender Segregation and Social Change: Men and Women in Changing Labour Markets , edited by Alison MacEwen Scott.
Skill and Occupational Change , edited by Roger Penn, Michael Rose and Jill Rubery.
The Future of the Trade Unions , by Robert Taylor. AndrC Deutsch,
The Dynamics of Workplace Unionism: Shop Stewards' Organization in Three Merseyside Plants , by Ralph Darlington.
Enterprise without Unions: Industrial Relations in the Non-union Firm , by Ian McLoughlin and Stephen Gourlay.
Trade Unions in Britain Today, 2nd ed , by John McIlroy.
Strategic Negotiations: A Theory of Change in Labor-Management Relations , by Richard E. Walton, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Robert B. McKersie.
Management in China during the Age of Reform , by John Child.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Miners' Strike 1984–85. Loss Without Limit, by Martin Adeney and John Lloyd Re-working the Work Ethic; Economic Values and Socio-Culiural Politics, by Michael Rose Racism and Recruitment: Managers, organisations and equal opportunity in the labour market, by Richard Jenkins Pathways in the Workplace: The effects of gender and race on access to organisational resources, by Jon Miller The Politics of the UCS Work-in, by J. Foster and C. Woolfson Unemployment: an economic analysis, by K. G. Knight The End of Economic Man? Custom and Competition in Labour Markets, by David Marsden Sons of the Machine, by Charles H. Savage and George F. F. Lombard Unions, Unemployment & Innovation, by Eric Batstone and Stephen Gourlay     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Industrial Relations in the New Europe edited by Anthony Ferner and Richard Hyman.
Employee Representation: Alternatives and Future Directions edited by Bruce Kaufman and Morris
Working for the Union: British Trade Union Officers by John Kelly and Edmund Heery.
Human Rights and Labour Law: Essays for Paul O'Higgins edited by K. D. Ewing, C. A. Gearty and B. A. Hepple.     

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

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 for Uncommon Times: The Power of Balance in Work, Family, and Personal Life. By Mark S. Guterman. From Downsizing to Recovery: Strategic Use of the Outplacement Option. By Richard Knowdell, Elizabeth Branstead, and Milan Moravec. Heroes of Unwritten Story: The UAW, 1934–39. By Henry Fruas. Internal Company Investigations and the Employment Relationship. By Warren Freedman. Labor Economics and Industrial Relations: Markets and Institutions. Edited by Clark Kerr and Paul D. Staudohar. New Frontiers in European Industrial Relations. Edited by Anthony Ferner and Richard Hyman. The New Left and Labor in the 1960s. By Peter B. Levy. Roberts' Dictionary of Industrial Relations. Prepared by the Industrial Relations Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Joyce M. Najita, Director. Studies in Labour Economics. Edited by Erkin I. Bairam. Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politicsl 1863–1993. By Eric Arnesen.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Conflict and Change: Aspects of Industrial Relations by Kevin Hawkins
Industrial Relations: A Contemporary Survey by Richard Lowndes
Handbook of Industrial Relations edited by Derek Torrington
The Workers' Union by Richard Hyman
Teachers' Unions and Interest Group Politics by R. D. Coates
The Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades 1871–1971: A History of Trade Unionism in the North Staffordshire Textile Industry by Frank Burchill and Jim Sweeney
Labour and the Law by Otto Kahn-Freund
Strikes by Richard Hyman
Dockers: The Impact of Industrial Change by David F. Wilson
Ford Strike: The Workers' Story by John Mathews
The International Firm and Labour in Kenya: 1945-70 by A. H. Amsden
African Businessmen by P. Marris and A. Somerset
Japanese Blue Collar: The Changing Tradition by Robert E. Cole
Towards a New Philosophy of Management by Paul Hill
Job Evaluation by T. T. Paterson
Spirits and Demons at Work by Harrison M. Trice and Paul M. Roman     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Power to Manage? Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative-Historical Perspective edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin. Comparative Industrial Relations: Contemporary Research and Theory edited by Roy J. Adams A Flexible Future? Prospects for Employment and Organisation edited by Paul Blyton and Jonathan Morris Life and Death at Work: Industrial Accidents as a Case of Socially Produced Error by Tom Dwyer Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation by Gideon Kunda Japan and the Global Economy: Issues and Trends in the 1990s edited by Jonathan Morris. Designing Organizations: A Decision-Making Perspective by Richard Butler. Routledge Rethinking Organization: New Directions in Organization Theory and Analysis edited by Michael Reed and Michael Hughes The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis edited by Walter W. Powell and Paul J. DiMaggio Contemporary British Industrial Relations by Sid Kessler and Fred Bayliss Taming the Trade Unions: A Guide to the Thatcher Government's Employment Reforms, 1980-90 by Charles G. Hanson, Macmillan Helping the Unemployed by R. Disney The Economy under Mrs Thatcher 1979–1990 by Christopher Johnson International Comparisons of Vocational Education and Training for Intermediate Skills edited by Paul Ryan     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Company Organization and Worker Participation: A Survey of Attitudes and Practices in Industrial Democracy with Special Emphasis on the Prospects for Employee Directors, by Ian B. Knight. Boards of Directors in British Industry, by Christopher Brookes. Sabotage in Industry, by Pierre Dubois. British Industry between the Wars: Instability and Industrial Development 1919–1939, edited by Neil K. Buxton and Derek H. Aldcroft. Birds of Passage: Migrant Labour and Industrial Societies, by Michael J. Piore. Concise Encyclopedia of Industrial Relations, by Arthur Marsh. Industrial Conflict in Modern Britain, by James E. Cronin, Croom Helm, What do the British Want from Participation and Industrial Democracy? by Frank Heller, Malcolm Wilders, Peter Abell and Malcolm Warner Protest and Participation: The new Working Class in Italy, by J. R. Low-Beer Capitalism and Socialism: A Theological Inquiry, edited by Michael Novak The Awkward Warrior, Frank Cousins: His Life and Times, by Geoffrey Goodman. David Poynter Satisfactions in Work Design: Ergonomics and Other Approaches, edited by R.G. Sell and P. Shipley The Japanese Company, by Rodney Clark Job Redesign and Management Control: Studies in British Leyland and Volvo, by F.H.M. Blackler and C.A. Brown The Quality of Working Life in Western and Eastern Europe, edited by Caryl L. Cooper and Enid Mumford The Working Class Manager: Beliefs and Behaviour, by S. G. Redding Technical Change and Employment, by Roy Rothwell and Walter Zegveld A Bibliography of British Industrial Relations, by G. S. Bain and G. B. Woolven A Sociology of Industrialisation: An Introduction, by David Brown and Michael J. Harrison Between Labour and Capital, edited by Pat Walker. Women for Hire: A Study of Female Office Workers, by Fiona McNally Sexual Harassment of Working Women, by Catharine A. MacKinnon Women in Trade Unions, by A. J. Geare, J. J. Herd, J. M. Howells Doctrine and Ethos in the Labour Party, by H. M. Drucker Governments and Trade Unions: the British Experience 1964–79, by Denis Barnes and Eileen Reid     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Political Purpose in Trade Unions, by Irving Richter. Allen and Unwin Labour, the Unions and the Party, by Bill Simpson. Allen and Unwin The Development of Industrial Relations in Britain 1911–39, by R. Charles Pilots and Management: Industrial Relations in the U.K. Airlines, by A. N. J. Blain. Allen and Unwin The Rise of the Labor Movement in Ceylon, by J. K. Jayawardena Income Distribution, by Jan Pen. Allen Lane Wealth, Income and Inequality, edited by A. B. Atkinson Manpower and Occupational Analysis: Concepts and Measurements, by James G. Scoville Where Have All the Robots Gone?, by Harold L. Sheppard and Neal Q. Herrick Participation in Industry, edited by Campbell Balfour