BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Hours of Work by Clyde E. Dankert, Floyd C. Mann, Herbert R. Northrup
Wage Trends, Wage Policies, and Collective Bargaining: the Problems for Underdeveloped Countries by H. A. Turner
African Trade Unions by Ioan Davies
Learning for Leadership: Interpersonal and Intergroup Relationship by A. K. Rice
Alienation and Freedom: The Factory Worker and His Industry by Robert Blauner
A Behavioural Theory of Labour Negotiations by Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie
The Psychology of Union-Management Relations by Ross Stagner and Hjalmar Rosen
Labor Arbitration A Dissenting View by Paul R. Hays
Management under Strike Conditions by John G. Hutchinson
National Rural Manpower . Adjustment to Industry
Technology and Woman's Work by Elizabeth Faulkner Baker
The Management of Conflict - Appeal Systems in Organizations by William G. Scott
Labor and the Progressive Movement in New York State, 1897–1916 by Irvin Yellowitz
Management Operations Research by Norbert Lloyd Enrick
Operational Research for Management by M. J. Sargeaunt
Allocating and Scheduling Resources by R. L. Martino
The Contracting-Out of Work: An Annotated Bibliography by David M. Farrell     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Yugoslav Workers' Selfmanagement edited by M. J. Broekmeyer
Local Labour Markets and Wage Structures edited by Derek Robinson
The Law of Redundancy by Cyril Grunfeld
Guidance to Employers on Industrial Relations Bill.
The Industrial Relations Act at Work by Joan Henderson
An Employer's Guide to the Industrial Relations Act by Peter Paterson
Conflict at Work edited by S. Kessler and B. Weekes
Work, Creativity, and Social Justice by Elliott Jaques     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The A utomobile Industry and its Workers: Between Fordism and Flexibility , edited by S. Tolliday and J. Zeitlin
Management and Managed: Fifty Years of Crisis at Chrysler , by Steve Jeffreys
Conflict at work: A Materialist Analysis of Workplace Relations , by P. K. Edwards
The Decline of Trade Union Organization , P.B. Beaumont
New Technology at Work , by Arthur Francis
Technological Change, Collective Bargaining and Industrial Efficiency , by Paul Willman
Britain's Productivity Gap , by S. Davies and R. Caves
The British Worker Question: A New Look at Workers and Productivity in Manufacturing , by Theo Nichols
Slow Growth and the Service Economy , by Pascal Petit
Labour Law in Britain edited by Roy Lewis
Labor-Owned Firms and Workers' Cooperatives, edited by Sune Jansson and Ann-Britt Hellmark
Unemployment, Search and Labour Supply , edited by Richard Blundell and Ian Walker
Power and Powerlessness in Industry: An Analysis of the Social Relations of Production , by Rosemary Harris     

Book Reviews: edited by Wlodymyr Maksymiw

Shaping Women's Work: Gender, Employment and Information Technology . J. Webster
Information Space. A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture . Max H. Boisot
The Industrial Craftsworker: Skill, Managerial Strategies and Workplace Relations . Peter Cook
Towards a Competent Workforce . Bob Mansfield and Lindsay Mitchell
Restructuring Within a Labour Intensive Industry . I. M. Taplin and J. Winterton (eds)
Employee Participation in Europe . Herman Knudsen
Technology Strategy for Business . David Ford and Mike Saren     

Book reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Technclogy in Working Order: Studies of Work, Interaction, and Technology Graham Button (Ed.)
Communication, Technology and the Development of People Bernard Woods
Photonic Technology and Industrial Policy: US Responses to Technological Change Ernest Stemberg
Beyond Taylorism: Computerization and the New Industrial Relations Lorraine Giordano
Japanization at Work John Bratton
Working for the Japanese Stephanie Jones
Technology and Work in German Industry Norbert Altmann, Christoph Kohler and Pamela Meil (Eds.)
Towards Global Localisation: The Computing and Telecommunications Industries in Britain and France Philip Cooke, Frank Moulaert, Erik Swyngedouw, Olivier Weinstein, Peter Wells, Martine Lemattre and Patrice Grevet
New Technology and Practical Police Work S. Ackroyd, R. Harper, J. A. Hughes, D. Shapiro and K. Soothill     

Labor Demand by Daniel S. Hamermesh

book reviewed in this article:
Training at Work: A Critical Analysis of Policy and Practice by Jeff Hyman
Industrial Training in a Cold Climate: An Assessment of Britain's Training Policies by Peter Senker
Social Institutions and Economic Performance: Studies of Industrial Relations in Advanced Capitalist Economies by Wolfgang Streeck
Industrial Relations and European Integration by Paul Teague and John Grahl
Strategy and the Human Resource: Ford and the Search for Competitive Advantage by Ken Starkey and Alan McKinlay
Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States by Victoria C. Hattam
Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe edited by Paul Johnson and Klaus Zimmermann     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Managers as Employees: An International Comparison of the Changing Character of Managerial Employment edited by Myron J. Roomkin
Management Control and Union Power: A Study of Labour Relations in Coal Mining by Christine Edwards and Edmund Heery
Class, Power and Technology: Skilled Workers in Britain and America by Roger Penn
Management and Labour in Europe: The Industrial Enterprise in Germany , Britain and France by C. Lane. Edward Elgar
New Forms of Work Organisation in Europe edited by Peter Grootings
Culture, Control and Commitment by James R. Lincoln and Arne L. Kalleberg
Continuous Improvement: Quality Control Circles in Japanese Industry by Paul Lillrank and Noriaki Kano
State and Society in Post-War Japan by Bernard Eccleston
Current Issues in Labour Relations: An International Perspective edited by A. Gladstone, R. Lansbury, J. Stieber, T. Treu and M. Weiss
Socialisation and Learning at Work edited by H. Leymann and Hy Kornbluh
Reluctant Entrepreneurs: The Extent, Achievements and Significance of Worker Takeovers in Europe by Rob Paton
Industrial Relations in Small Firms: Small Isn't Beautiful by Al Rainnie
Social Power and the Labour Market: A Radical Approach to Labour Economics by David Purdy     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960 by Christoper L. Tomlins
A History of British Trade Unions since 1889 Vol II 1911–1933 by H. A. Clegg
History and Heritage by Alan Fox
Man Mismanagement by Alan Fox.
Casual Labour: The Unemployment Question in the Port Transport Industry 1880–1970 by Gordon Phillips and Noel Whiteside
Employee Relations Bibliography & Abstracts edited and compiled by Arthur Marsh.
Dismissed by L. Dickens, M. Jones, B. Weekes and M. Hart
The Future of the Automobile. The Report of MITs International Automobile Program , (1984), by Alan Altshuler
Innovation and Management Control: Labour Relations at BL Cars (1984), by Paul Willman and Graham Winch
Consent and Efficiency: Labour Relations and Management Strategy in the State Enterprise by Eric Batstone, Anthony Ferner and Michael Terry
Women's Working Lives: Patterns and Strategies by S. Yeandle
Women's Work Histories: An Analysis of the Women and Employment Survey by S. Dex.
The Sexual Division of Work by S. Dex
Industrial Relations in Latin America by Efrén Córdova
Disorganised Capitalism: Contemporary Transformations of Work and Politics by Claus Offe
Industrial Realtions and the Law in the 1980s: Issues and Future Trends , edited by Patricia Fosh and Craig R. Littler     

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 Search for Labour Market Flexibility: The European Economies in Transition , edited by Robert Boyer.
Government Managers and Industrial Relations: Public Enterprises and the Political Environment by Anthony Ferner.
The Japanisation of British Industry , by Nick Oliver and Barry Wilkinson.
Toshiba's New British Company: Competitiveness through Innovation in Industry , by Malcolm Trevor.
Safety at Work: the Limits of Self-Regulation by Sandra Dawson, Paul Willman, Martin Bamford and Alan Clinton.
We Make Ships by Tom Pickard. Secker & Warburg     

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

Keith Grint and Steve Woolgar, The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organisation
Harry C Katz, Telecommunications – Restructuring Work and Employment Relations Worldwide
Theo Nichols, The Sociology of Industrial Injury
Axel van den Berg, Bengt Furaker, Leif Johansson, Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: a Sweden-Canada Comparison     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
A Cmhrry of Pay by E. H. Phelps Brown with Margaret H. Browne
Labor Theory by Richard Perlman
Industrial Disputes: Essays in the Sociology of Industrial Relations by J. E. T
Internutional Bibliograkb of Tr& Unionism by V. L. Allen
White Collar Union-Sixty Years of NALGO by Alec Spoor
Organisation und Politik & Gew˜kscha&m und Arbdtgebmerbinde in der dGutschGn Bau˜rtschaft by Dr Karl-Gustav Werner
The Affuent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour by John H. Goldthorpe
A New Province for Law and Order by Henry Bournes Higgins
The First British Workmen's Compensation Act 1897 by David G. Hanes
Guaranteed Income f o r the Unemployed: the Story of S.U.B. by Joseph M. Becker
Welfare at Work by Alec 0. Martin. B. T
Journal of Industrial Gerontology
Anxiety and the Executive by Alan N. Schoonmaker
lndustrial PsychoZogy: Its Theoretical and Social Foundatwns by Milton L
Wages: A Workers' Educational Manual
The Manager's Guide to Industrial Relations by L. F. Neal and Andrew Robertson
Modern Management Methods by Ernest Dale and L. C. Michelon
Minktry and Management. The Study of Ecclesiastical Adminhtration by Peter F. Rudge
Indian Workers' Associations in Britain by John DeWitt Jr
Recruitment Advertising by Frank Coss
The Foreign Worker by R. Descloitres     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article
Technology and the Labour Process
Under New Management: Australian Organisations in Transition
Technological Development and the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions: Options for the Future
Information Technology in European Services: Towards a Microelectronic Future
Skills, Wages and Productivity in the Service Sector
The Spatial Context of Technological Development
The Technical Challenges and Opportunities of a United Europe
Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth
New Explorations in the Economics of Technological Change
R&D Management: Managing Products and New Processes (2nd edition)
The Employment Impact of New Technology
The Strategic Management of Technological Innovation
New Firms in the Biotechnology Industry: Their Contribution to Innovation and Growth     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
David Holman, Toby D. Wall, Chris W. Clegg, Paul Sparrow and Ann Howard. The New Workplace: A Guide to the Human Impact of Modern Working Practices.
Andy Danford, Mike Richardson and Martin Upchurch. New Unions, New Workplaces: A Study of Union Resilience in the Restructured Workplace.
Gregor Murray, Jacques Bélanger, Anthony Giles and Paul-André Lapointe. Work and Employment Relations in the High-Performance Workplace.
Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari and Marilyn Power. Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States.
Pete Alcock, Christina Beatty, Stephen Fothergill, Rob Macmillan and Sue Yeandle. Work to Welfare: How Men Become Detached from the Labour Market.
Steve Jefferys. Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité at Work. Changing French Employment Relations and Management.
Gregor Gall. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. Union Organizing: Campaigning for Trade Union Recognition.
Mateo Alaluf and Carlos Prieto. Collective Bargaining and the Social Construction of Employment.
Peter Boxall and John Purcell. Strategy and Human Resource Management.
Lawrence R. James and Michelle D. Mazerolle. Personality in Work Organizations.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: New Technology in Context: The Selection, Introduction and Use of Computer Numerically Controlled Machine Tools, by Bernard Burnes. Managerial Strategy for New Technology, by Wendy Currie. New Technologies and Work: Capitalist and Socialist Perspectives, by Arthur Francis and Peter Grootings. Labour Market Flexibility: Trends in Enterprises. Precarious Jobs in Labour Market Regulation: The Growth of Atypical Employment in Western Europe, edited by G. Rodgers and J. Rogers. Flexible Working Time and Family Life: A Review of Changes, by S. McRae. The European Community: The Social Dimension, by P. Teague. The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States, by Michael Goldfield. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State and American Labor Activism, 1860–1925, by David Montgomery. Reds or Rackets? The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront, by Howard Kimeldorf. A Secretary and a Cook: Challenging WomenS Wages in the Courts of the United States and Great Britain, by Steven L. Willborn. Coal, Crisis and Conflict: The 1984-5 Miners' Strike in Yorkshire by J. Winterton and R. Winterton. After Redundancy: the Experience of Economic insecurity, by John Westergaard, Iain Noble and Alan Walker. Change in Industrial Relations: The Organization and Environment by P. B. Beaumont. Manufacturing Change: Industrial Relations and Restructuring, edited by Stephanie Tailby and Colin Whitston. The British Trade Union Directory, by Wolodymyr Maksyrniw, Jack Eaton and Colin Gill. International Labour Statistics: A Handbook Guide and Recent Trends, edited by R. Bean. The Keys to Excellence: the Deming Philosophy, by Nancy R. Mann. Organizational Ecoiogy, by Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman. Sweden: Social Democracy in Practice, by Henry Milner. Reforming the Revolution: China in Transition, edited by Robert Benewick and Paul Wingrove. Industrial Sociology: Work in the French Tradition, edited by Michael Rose.     

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     

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.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Sociul Class, Status and Teacher Trade Unionism. The Case of Public Sector Further and Higher Education by Sandra M. Turner.
Teucher Militancy: A History of Teacher Strikes 1896-1987 by Roger V. Seifert.
The Changing Idea of a Teachers' Union by Charles T. Kerchner and D. E. Mitchell.
The Search for Labour Market Flexibility: The European Economies in Transition edited by Robert Boyer.
Governments, Managers and Industrial Relations: Public Enterprises and the Political Environment by Anthony Ferner.
New Technology and lndustrial Relations edited by Richard Hyman and Wolfgang Streeck.
The Process of Technological Change: New Technology and Social Choice in the Workshop by Jon Clark,
Innovation, Technology and Finance edited by Arnold Heertje,
Worker Cooperatives in Theory and Practice by Mary Mellor Janet Hannah and John Stirling.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Crisis in the French Labour Movement: A Grassroots' Perspective , by W. Rand Smith
The Decline of Organised Labor in the United States , by Michael Goldfield
Trade Unions in Communist States by Alex Pravda and Blair A. Ruble (eds)
Management Reforms in China , edited by Malcolm Warner
Comparative Factory Organisation: An Anglo-German Comparison of Manufacturing, Management and Manpower , by A. Sorge and M. Warner
The Management of Collective Bargaining: An International Comparison , by K. Sisson
Social Partnership: the Austrian System of Industrial Relations and Social Insurance , by Theodor Tomandl and Karl Fuerboeck
Strikes: Industrial Conflict in Britain, U.S.A. and Australia , by Michael P. Jackson
Labour in British Society: An Interpretative History , by Richard Price
American Technology and the British Vehicle Industry , by Wayne Lewchuk
The Pitmen of the Northern Coalfield: Work, Culture and Protest, 1790–1850 , by Robert Colls
Managing the Factory , by P. K. Edwards