Book Reviews

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?     

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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The British Journal of Sociology, 41(3), September 1990. Special Issue: Britain as a European Society? edited by Colin Crouch The Political Economy of Unemployment: Active Labour Market Policy in West Germany and the United States by Thomas Janoski Women in the Japanese Workplace by Mary Saso Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace by Dorinne K. Kondo Managing Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories by D. H. Whittaker The New Masters: Can the West Match Japan? by Phillip Oppenheim Women at Work: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives edited by Jenny Firth-Cozens and Michael West Deciphering the Enterprise Culture: Entrepreneurship, Petty Capitalism and the Restructuring of Britain edited by Roger Burrows Negotiation Games: Applying Game Theory to Bargaining and Arbitration by Stephen J. Brams Current Issues in Labour Economics edited by David Sapsford and Zafiris Tzannatos Patterns of Labour: Work and Social Change in the Pottery Industry by Richard Whipp Corporate Culture: From Vicious to Virtuous Circles by Charles Hampden-Turner     

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.     

Work and Life Integration: Organizational,Cultural, and Individual Perspectives – Edited by Ellen Ernst Kossek and Susan J. Lambert Work‐Life Balance in the 21st Century – Edited by Diane M. Houston

Books reviewed: Work and Life Integration: Organizational, Cultural, and Individual Perspectives edited by Ellen Ernst Kossek and Susan J. Lambert. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ and London, 2005, xxviii + 570 pp., ISBN 0 8058 4616 6, $42.50, paper. Work‐Life Balance in the 21st Century edited by Diane M. Houston. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2005, xv + 271 pp., ISBN 1 4039 2062 1, £50.00.     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Ronaldo Munck. Globalisation and Labour: The New ‘Great Transformation’ Gerda van Roozendaal. Trade Unions and Global Governance: The Debate on a Social Clause Edited by Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O’Brien. Global Unions? Theory and Strategies of Organized Labour in the Global Political Economy Louise Amoore. Globalisation Contested: An International Political Economy of Work Edited by Christopher Candland and Rudra Sil. The Politics of Labor in a Global Age: Continuity and Change in Late‐industrializing and Post‐socialist Economies Edited by Jürgen Hoffmann. The Solidarity Dilemma: Globalisation, Europeanisation and the Trade Unions Edited by Alan B. Krueger and Robert Solow. The Roaring Nineties: Can Full Employment Be Sustained? David I. Levine, Dale Belman, Gary Charness, Erica L. Groshen and K. C. O’Shaughnessy. W. E. How New is the ‘New Employment Contract’? Evidence from North American Pay Practices Christopher K. Ansell. Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements: The Politics of Labour in the French Third Republic Jean‐Pierre Durand and Nicolas Hatzfeld, translated by Dafydd Roberts. Living Labour: Life on the Line at Peugeot France Jennifer Lynn Roney. Webs of Resistance in a Newly Privatized Polish Firm: Workers React to Organizational Transformation     

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

Keith Grint and Steve Woolgarr, The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization Paul Stewart (ed), Beyond Japanese Management: The End of Modern Times? R. Katz (ed), The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation D. Archibugi and J. Michie (eds), Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance P. Bloomfield, R. Coombs, D. Knights and D. Littler (eds), Information Technology and Organisations: Strategies, Network and Integration Bryn Jones, Forcing the Factory of the Future     

Book Reviews

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     

Book Reviews

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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Books reviewed:
Friedman, Gerald State Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876–1914
Abernathy, Frederick, Dunlop, John, Hammond, Janice and Weil, David A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing — Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries
Waterman, Peter Globalization, Social Movements and the New Internationalisms
Jackson, Paul and Van der Wielen, Jos (eds) Teleworking: International Perspective, from Telecommuting to the Virtual Organisation
Ferber, Marianne (ed.) Women in the Labour Market
Dench, S. and O'Regan, S. Helping Parents to Work: A Study for Kent TEC
Browne, Kingsley Divided Labours: An Evolutionary View of Women at Work
Barnes, Helen, Thornton, Patricia and Maynard, Sue Disabled People and Employment: A Review of Research and Development Work
Zey, Mary Rational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory: A Critique
Maclagan, Patrick Management and Morality
Parker, Martin Ethics and Organizations     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Jared Bernstein Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition Michael Rose Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy Jonathan Winterton Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss John Saville A Life on the Left Catherine Hakim Part-Time Prospects: An International Comparison of Part-Time Work in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim Andreas Wittel The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism John Benson HRM, Technical Workers and the Multinational Corporation Marco C. de Witte New Forms of Work Organisation: Can Europe Realise its Potential?     

Book Reviews

Truman F. Bewley, Why Wages Don't Fall during a Recession
Geoff White and Janet Druker (eds) Reward Management: A Critical Text
Robert Taylor The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism
David Price, Office of Hope: A History of the Unemployment Service
Anna Pollert, Transformation at Work in the New Market Economies of Central Eastern Europe
Sarah Ashwin, Russian Workers: The Anatomy of Patience
Roderick Martin, Akihiro Ishikawa, Csaba Mako´ and Francesco Consoli (eds), Workers, Firms and Unions: Industrial Relations in Transition
David Knights and Hugh Willmott (eds) The Re‐engineering Revolution: Critical Studies of Corporate Change
Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson, Great Writers on Organizations: The Second Omnibus Edition
Linda L. Haas, Philip Hwang and Graeme Russell (eds), Organizational Change and Gender Equity: International Perspectives on Fathers and Mothers at the Workplace     

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.     

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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     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Dengjian Jin, The Dynamics of Knowledge Regimes: Technology, Culture and Competitiveness in the USA and Japan
Chrisanthi Avgerou and Renata Lébre La Rovere (eds.), Information Systems and the Economics of Innovation
John T. Scott, Environmental Research and Development
Faïz Gallouj, Innovation in the Service Economy: the New Wealth of Nations
Andreas Pyka and Gunter Kuppers (eds.), Innovation Networks Theory and Practice     

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     

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

Books reviewed: How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, The United States, and Japan by Kathleen Thelen. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, xv + 336 pp., ISBN 0 521 54674 5, £18.99.
Agents of Change: Crossing the Post‐industrial Divide by Charles Heckscher, Michael Maccoby, Rafael Ramírez and Pierre‐Eric Tixier. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, ix + 237 pp., ISBN 0 19 926175 X, £22.50, paper.
Reviewed by David Marsden
London School of Economics The Global Evolution of Industrial Relations: Events, Ideas, and the IIRA by Bruce E. Kaufman. International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004, xxv + 720 pp., ISBN 92‐2‐114153‐5, $74.95.
Reviewed by Sanford M. Jacoby
University of California Los Angeles Trade Unions: Resurgence or Demise? edited by Susan Fernie and David Metcalf. Routledge, London, 2005, xvii + 268 pp., ISBN 0 415 28412 0, £21.99, paper.
Reviewed by John Pencavel
Department of Economics, Stanford University Strategic Unionism and Partnership: Boxing or Dancing? edited by Tony Huzzard, Denis Gregory and Regan Scott. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, xxiii + 362 pp., ISBN 1 1403917566, £55.00.
Reviewed by Miguel Martinez Lucio
Bradford University School of Management Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 2004, xii + 278 pp., ISBN 0‐674‐01665‐3, £16.95.
Reviewed by Simon Deakin
Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge The Economics of Affirmative Action edited by Harry J. Holzer and David Neumark. An Elgar Reference Collection, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2004, xxxii + 688 pp., ISBN 1 84376 117 3, £175.00.
Reviewed by Karen Mumford
University of York Welfare for the Unemployed in Britain and Germany: Who Benefits? by Frances McGinnity. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2004, x + 228 pp., ISBN 1 84376 220 X, £55.00.
Reviewed by Malcolm Sawyer
University of Leeds The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy by Philip Brown and Anthony Hesketh with Sarah Williams. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, x + 278 pp., ISBN 0 19 926954 8, £18.00, paper.
Reviewed by Phoebe Moore
University of Manchester