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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     

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Book reviewed in this article: Labour Law and Politics in the Weimar Republic, edited by Roy Lewis and Jon Clark. Stagflation Vol. 1 Wage Fixing, by J.E. Meade. Allen & Unwin Payment Systems in Britain, Michael White, Gower Pay in the Public Sector, R.F. Elliot, and J.F. Fallick Effects of the Temporary Employment Subsidy, B.M. Deakin and C.F. Pratten Managers in Focus: The British Manager in the Early 1980s, by Michael Poole, Roger Mansfield, Paul Blyton and Paul Frost Who Gets to the Top?, A Sociological Study of Business Executives, by Gloria L. Lee. Gower The Dynamics of White-Collar Unionism: A Study of Local Union Participation, by Nigel Nicholson, Gill Ursell and Paul Blyton Industrial Relations in International Perspective: Essays on Research and Policy, edited by P.B. Doeringer The Militancy of British Miners by V.L. Allen King Coal, Miners, Coal and Britain's Industrial Future by Tony Hall Au milieu du gué, Jean-Louis Moynot Working Life: A Social Science Contribution to Work Reform, by B. Gardell and G. Johansson Organized Workers and Socialist Politics in Interwar Japan, by Stephen S. Large     

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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     

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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     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Shop floor bargaining and the state: Historical and comparative perspectives, edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin The Politics of the West German Trade Unions, Strategies of class and interest representation in growth and crisis, by Andrei S. Markovits The Development of Trade Unionism in Great Britain and Germany, 1880–1914, by Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Hans-Gerhard Husung (eds.). The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany, by M. Maurice, F. Sellier and J. J. Silvestre The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing. The Feminization of Clerical Labor in Great Britain, by Samuel Cohn Sex and the Workplace, by Barbara A. Gutek Employee Consultation and Information in Multinational Corporations, edited by J. Vandamme Militant Managers: Managerial Unionism and Industrial Relations, by Greg Bamber Redundancy and Recession: restructuring the regions?, edited by Mike Danson People and Chips: The Human Implications of Information Technology, by Christopher Rowe Technology and Work: East-West Comparison, edited by Peter Grootings The Future Impact of Automation on Workers, by Wassily Leontieff and Faye Duchin Workplace Industrial Relations and Technical Change, by W. W. Daniel     

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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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Book reviewed in this article: SOGAT: A History of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades by John Gennard and Peter Bain Review of Full Employment Regained? An Agathotopian Dream by J. E. Meade, with a foreword by Robert M. Solow The Future of Employment Relations by P. B. Beaumont Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice in Britain edited by Paul Edwards Contemporary British Industrial Relations, 2nd edn, by Sid Kessler and Fred Bayliss Difference and Changes in Wage Structures edited by Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz Industrial Relations in Schools by Mike Ironside and Roger Seifert Public Sector Collective Bargaining in Canada edited by Gene Swimmer and Mark Thompson The Politics of Bargaining: The Merger Process and British Trade Union Structural Development 1892–1987 by Jeremy Waddington Just the Job: A Consultation Document on the Future of Employment Law.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Farewell to Flexibility? edited by Anna Pollert L'Atelier et le Robot by Benjamin Coriat Unemployment by Richard Layard, Stephen Nickell, and Richard Jackman Mismatch and Labour Mobility, edited by Fiorella Padoa Schioppa New Developments in the Labour Market: Toward a New Institutional Paradigm edited by Katharine Abraham and Robert McKersie Technological Change and Employment: Innovation in the German Economy edited by R. Schettkat and M. Wagner Konfliktpartnerschaft: Acteure und Institutionen der Industriellen Beziehungen edited by Walter Mueller-Jentsch In the Way of Women: Men's Resistance to Sex Equality in Organizations by Cynthia Cockburn Economic Decline in Britain: The Shipbuilding Industry, 1890–1970 by Edward H. Lorenz The Management of Labor: The British and French Iron and Steel Trade Industries, 1860–1918 by Judith Eizenberg Vichniac Industrial Society and Economic Crisis by John Eldridge, Peter Cressey and John MacInnes International Handbook of Participation in Organizations, Volume II: Ownership and Participation edited by Raymond Russell and Velkjo Rus Critical Readings in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2 vols.) edited by Cary L. Cooper Negotiation: From Theory to Practice by Jacques Rojot The Climate of Workplace Relations by Ali Dastmalchian, Paul Blyton and Raymond Adamson Profit Sharing and Gain Sharing by Myron J. Roomkin     

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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     

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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     

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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     

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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:
Consciousness and Action among the Western Working Class, by Michael Mann
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft), by Karl Marx
Self-Government in Industry by G. D. H. Cole, edited by J. Corina
Workshop Organisation by G. D. H. Cole, edited by A. Marsh
Unemployment and Politics: A Study in English Social Policy, 1886–1914 by José Harris
Evaluating the Impact of Manpower Programs edited by Michael E. Borus
Economic Aspects of Manpower Training Programs by D. Hamermesh
Organization Design: Tlieory and Practice by Peter A. Clark
Sociology and Industrial Life by J. E. T. Eldridge
Man and Organization edited by John Child. George Allen & Unwin
Employment Conditions in Europe by Margaret Stewart
The P.E. Briefing Guide to Wages and Employment in the E.E.C     

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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     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Concept of Organization: An Introduction to Organizations , by David Bradley and Roy Wilkie
The School: An Organizational Analysis , by Stephen J. Bennett
The Hospital: An Organizational Analysis , by Stephen Green
The University: An Organizational Analysis , by Hugh Livingstone
Strikes and Industrial Conflict , by Geoffrey K. Ingham
Discrimination in Labour Markets , edited by Orley Ashenfelter and Albert Rees
Strikes in France 1830–1968 , by E. Shorter and C. Tilly
The Indian Industrial Worker: Issues in Perspective , by Baldev Raj Sharma
Exporting Workers: The Turkish Case , by Suzanne Paine
The Union of Post Office Workers—A Study in Political Sociology , by Michael Moran
Personnel Planning and Occupational Choice , by Stuart Timperley. George Allen and Unwin
Socialism and the Challenge of War: Ideas and Politics in Britain 1912–1918 , by J. M. Winter     

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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     

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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     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Policing Industrial Disputes: 1893–1985 , by Roger Geary
The Price of Industrial Labor , by J. E. Annable
The Performance of Labour-Managed Firms , edited by Frank H. Stephen
Comparative Industrial Relations: An Introduction to Cross-National Perspectives , by R. Bean
Directors of Industry: The British Corporate Network 1904–1976 , by John Scott and Catherine Griff
Skilled Workers in the Class Structure , by Roger Penn
Capitalism, class conflict and the new middle class , by Bob Carter
Improving Industrial Relations - The Advisory Role of ACAS by Eric Armstrong and Rosemary Lucas
The Information Technology Revolution , edited by Tom Forester
A Textbook of Industrial Relations Management , by George Thomason
The Industrial Relations Position of Foreign-Owned Firms in Britain , by Peter J. Buckley and Peter Enderwick
Fighting Closures: De-industrialization and the Trade Unions, 1979–1983 , edited by Hugo Levie, Denis Gregory and Nick Lorentzen
Ballots and Union Democracy , by Roger Undy and Roderick Martin     

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Books reviewed: Teulings, Coen and Hartog, Joop Corporatism or Competition? Labour Contracts, Institutions and Wage Structures in International Comparison Herzenberg, Stephen A., Alic, John A. and Wial, Howard New Rules for a New Economy: Employment and Opportunity in Post‐industrial America Strange, Susan Mad Money Whitfield, Keith and Strauss, George (eds) Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations Mabey, Christopher, Skinner, Dennis and Clark, Timothy (eds) Experiencing Human Resource Management Newman, Karen L. and Nollen, Stanley D. Managing Radical Organizational Change Stark, David and Bruszt, Laszlo Post‐socialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe Lange, Thomas and Shackleton, J.R. (eds) The Political Economy of German Unification Joshi, Heather and Paci, Pierella Unequal Pay for Men and Women: Evidence from the British Cohort Studies Eisenberg, Susan We’ll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working in Construction Drew, Eileen, Emerek, Ruth and Mahon, Evelyn (eds) Women, Work and the Family in Europe