Industrial relations law commentary: proposed changes in the law

Reform of the law dealing with industrial relations was one of the major election commitments of the Conservative Government. In this commentary, Karl Mackie and Ian Hooker analyse the Employment Bill and the Working Paper on Secondary Industrial Action.     

Book Reviews

Richard W. Baker, M. Hadi Soesastro, J. Kristiadi and Douglas E. Ramage (eds) (1999), Indonesia: The Challenge of Change, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore; KITLV Press, Leiden, pp. xvii + 305. Cloth: S$76.00; US$49.00; Paper: S$49.90; US$32.90.

Edward Aspinall, Herb Feith and Gerry van Klinken (eds) (1999), The Last Days of President Soeharto, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, pp. x + 171. A$24.95.

Geoff Forrester and R.J. May (eds) (1998), The Fall of Soeharto, Crawford House Publishing, Bathurst NSW, pp. x + 261. A$30.00.

Stefan Eklö f (1999), Indonesian Politics in Crisis: The Long Fall of Suharto, 1996–98, Studies in Contemporary Asia Series, no. 1, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen, pp. xii + 272. Cloth: £30.00; US$45.00; A$75.00; Paper: £12.99; US$19.95; A$33.00.

Jim Schiller (1996), Developing Jepara in New Order Indonesia, Monash Asia Institute, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, pp. xii + 312. A$29.95.

Richard Mathews (1999), A Business Survival Guide to Eastern Indonesia, North Australia Research Unit, The Australian National University, Darwin, pp. 189.     

book reviews

Book reviews in this article: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS HANDBOOK ACAS RESPONSES TO PARTICIPATION AT WORK Mick Marchington TRADE UNIONS, NATIONAL POLITICS AND ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT Jon Clark, Heinz Hartman, Christopher Lau and David Winchester GOVERNMENTS AND TRADE UNIONS: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE 1964–79 Denis Barnes and Eileen Reid MANAGERS AND MANAGEMENT IN WEST GERMANY Peter Lawrence THE NEW INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR: STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT IN INDUSTRIALISED COUNTRIES AND INDUSTRIALISATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Folker Fröbel, Jurgen Heinrichs and Otto Kreye DISADVANTAGED GROUPS ON THE LABOUR MARKET AND MEASURES TO ASSIST THEM Harish C. Jain     

Energy prices: Economic concepts and accounting realities

The PEFA (public expenditure and financial accountability) framework is an instrument that enables broad assessments of a country's public expenditure, procurement and financial accountability systems. This article provides three views of the framework: from the PEFA secretariat, a practitioner and a donor.     

Alternative Dispute Resolution: An Emerging International Business Practice

Speed, flexibility, negotiated control of outcomes, savings and absence of future enmity. Why lose all this in litigation when a new user-friendly alternative is on the increase? The author is Chief Executive of the Centre for Dispute Resolution (CEDR), 7 St. Katharine's Way, London E1 9LB, and Special Professor in ADR in the University of Birmingham, England.     

Book reviews

History and Heritage: The Social Origins of the British Industrial Relations System Alan Fox Public Employment in Western Nations Richard Rose, (ed.) The Sexual Division of Work: Conceptual Revolutions in the Social Sciences Shirley Dex Changes in Working Time: An International Review Paul Blyton Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers & Leisure in An Industrial City, 1870–1920 Roy Rozenzweig The Economic Organisation of War Communism 1918–1921 Silvana Malle     

Book Reviews

Jim Schiller and Barbara Martin-Schiller (eds), Imagining Indonesia: Cultural Politics and Political Culture, Ohio University Centre for International Studies, Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series no. 97, Athens, Ohio, 1997, pp. xxiii + 351. US$30.00; £28.50

Bisuk Siahaan, Industrialisasi di Indonesia sejak Hutang Kehormatan sampai Banting Stir [Industrialisation in Indonesia from the Debt of Honour to the Change in Course], Pustaka Data, Jakarta, 1996, pp. xiv + 563 npg

J.Th Lindblad (ed.), Historical Foundations of a National Economy in Indonesia, 1890s–1990s, North-Holland and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, 1996, pp viii + 427. Dfl 95.‐.

Sven Cederroth, Survival and Profit in Rural Java: The Case of an East Javanese Village, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No 63, Curzon Press, Richmond, 1995, pp. xi + 301. npg.

R William Liddle, Leadership and Culture in Indonesian Politics, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, for ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series, 1996. A$34.95.

Julius Tahija, Horizons Beyond, ‘Entrepreneurs of Asia’ series, Times Books International, Singapore, 1995, pp. xiii + 280. npg.

Mayling Oey-Gardiner, Mildred Wagemann, Evelyn Suleeman and Sulastri (eds), Perempuan Indonesia- Duht dan Kini [Indonesian Women: The Past and The Present], PT Gramcdia Pustaka Utama, Jakarta, 1996, pp. xvii + 477.

George Faulkner, Business Indonesia: A Practical Insight into Doing Business in Indonesia, Business. & Professional Publishing, Sydney, 1995, pp. xviii + 158.     

Gender schematicity and preference for gender-typed products

Two experiments demonstrated that subjects preferred products described in terms congruent with their self-perceived schema for masculinity or femininity. In Experiment 1, male subjects were classified as highly masculine or not so masculine on the basis of their self-ratings. Those who were highly masculine preferred a product described in very masculine terms and those who were not so masculine preferred a product described in feminine terms. In Experiment 2, female subjects were classified as highly feminine or not so feminine on the basis of self-ratings. Highly feminine subjects liked a product best when it was described in highly feminine terms, next most when it was described as having both masculine and feminine attributes, and least when it was depicted as totally masculine. Subjects who saw themselves as less feminine showed the opposite pattern of preference. These effects did not appear to be mediated by differential processing of schema-consistent information.     

book reviews

Book reviews in this article: MANUFACTURING CONSENT: CHANGES IN THE LABOR PROCESS UNDER MONOPOLY CAPITALISM Michael Burawoy INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION IN GREAT BRITAIN John Lockyer TRAINING FOR PARTICIPATION Rex Adams     

Trends and developments in industrial relations law Industrial tribunals-what next?

Here the author outlines recent proposals for reform of the industrial tribunal system and analyses the dilemmas and differences amongst proponents of reform.