British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2026

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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Volume 64, issue 3, 2026

Minor Keys: Gender, Inequality and Work in Electronic Music: By Samantha Parsley (2025). Bristol University Press. 206 Pages, ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐4042‐9, Paperback (GBP 14.99) pp. 401-402

Deepa Kylasam Iyer and Francis Kuriakose

Worker Well‐Being, Human Factors and the Gig Economy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Edited by Emily Yarrow and Julie Davies (2025), Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 180 pp. £69.59 ISBN 978‐1‐032‐61058‐0 (hbk); £69.59 978‐1‐003‐46289‐7 (eBook) pp. 403-404

Xiaoning Ma and Guodong Zhao

The Salience of Employee‐Shareholder Board Representation in Family Firms: Towards Equal Treatment of Minority Shareholders pp. 405-428

Mehdi Nekhili, Haithem Nagati, Riadh Manita and Dhikra Chebbi Nekhili

Workers, Power and Society. Power Resource Theory in Contemporary Capitalism.: By Jens Arnholtz and Bjarke Refslund (eds.), London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 274 pp. £116 ISBN 978‐1‐032‐54786‐2 (hbk); £34.39 978‐1‐003‐43102‐2 (eBook) pp. 429-430

Guodong Zhao and Xiaoning Ma

Collective Wage Co‐ordination and the Costs of Job Displacement pp. 431-449

Sofía Fernández‐Guerrico and Ilan Tojerow

Taking Different Roads to Rome: Protective and Proactive Orientations Towards Institutional Power Resources pp. 450-466

Tina Miedtank and Johann Fortwengel

Implementing Automation: The Shopfloor Politics of Technological Change in the Canadian Aerospace Sector pp. 467-479

Daniel Nicholson

Too Little, Too Weak? Paid Parental Leaves in Philippine Collective Bargaining Agreements pp. 480-496

Vincent Jerald Ramos

Gender Pay Disclosure and Firm Performance: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom pp. 497-518

Hildebrando Pahula and Charles Ambilichu

Job Quality in a Turbulent Era: Edited by Agnieszka Piasna and Janine Leschke (eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026. 256 pp. £110.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 9781035343478 pp. 519-520

Fu‐Hsuan Chen

Trust Matters: Examining the Dynamics of Management's Trust in Employee Representation pp. 521-544

Argyro Avgoustaki, Kabiru Oyetunde and Rea Prouska

From Inaction to Action: The Cognitive Liberation of Amazon Workers in North Carolina pp. 545-557

Carla Lima Aranzaes and Destiny Blackwell

‘I Don't Want to Make This Such a Gender Thing’: Theorising the Place of Gender in Domestic Violence Workplace Policies pp. 558-569

Ruth Weatherall and Mihajla Gavin

Theorising the Impacts of Polycrisis on Employment Relations: Complexity and Diversity at a Global Scale pp. 570-583

Tony Dobbins, Fang Lee Cooke, Rea Prouska, Steve Williams and Sean O'Brady

When Jobs Change: Skills Mismatch and the Value of Training pp. 584-614

Lorcan Kelly, Paul Redmond and Luke Brosnan

The Relative Importance of the Establishment in the Determination of Job Quality pp. 615-634

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Francis Green

The Ties That Bind: Occupational Licensing and Migrants’ Labour Market Outcomes pp. 635-658

Kihwan Bae and Edward J. Timmons

Remote Work and Labor Institutions: By Julia López López (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 240 pp. Paperback $45.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐00‐959706‐7; ISBN: 978‐1‐00‐959702‐9 (epub) pp. 659-660

Yu Jiang

Female Representation Matters: Bias and Female Representation in Industrial Relations Research pp. 661-679

Anthony N. Doucouliagos, Hristos Doucouliagos, T. D. Stanley and Katarina Zigova

Petroleum‐238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It: by Justin Noble, Karret Press, Hudson, New York, 2024, pp. 423 (hardcover), Price $31‐99 (£23‐90), ISBN‐13:979898954237 pp. 680-681

Andrew Watterson

Volume 64, issue 2, 2026

UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health: By Elizabeth Cotton, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. 148 pp. £19.99 (paperback). ISBN 978‐1529230833; £80 (hardback). ISBN 978‐1529230826; £19.99 (ebook). ISBN 978‐1529230840 pp. 217-218

Miguel Martínez Lucio

Building Power From the Bottom‐Up: How Union Leaders Navigate Power Relations Under Algorithmic Management pp. 219-230

Christine A. Riordan, Hye Jin Rho, Yeaseul Hur, Patricia Tabarani and Deborah M. Figart

Saving Work: Philosophical Defence and Practical Dilemmas of Labour Dignity in the AI Era: Edited by Lisa Herzog, Translated by Kou Ying, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, Publication Date, April 2025. 264pp. ¥68.00. ISBN: 978‐7‐552‐04626‐7 pp. 231-232

Yingda Xu

Wages and Working Conditions in Global Value Chains: The Relevance of Foreign Ownership in New Sourcing Countries pp. 233-249

Luc Fransen, Khadija van der Straaten, Ans Kolk, Victor Hartman and Kea Tijdens

Works Councils and Apprenticeship Training: Heterogeneous Works Councils, Heterogeneous Effects? pp. 250-262

Kathrin Weis, Samuel Muehlemann and Harald Pfeifer

Land and Labour: The Potters’ Emigration Society, 1844–51: By Martin Crawford, Manchester University Press, 2026. 272 pp. £25.00/AUD 171.99. ISBN: 9781526194916 pp. 263-264

Hao‐Ren Liu

The Social Codes of Tech Workers: Class Identity in Digital Capitalism: By Robert Dorschel, The MIT Press, 2025. 242 pp. $65.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9780262553537 pp. 265-266

Gyunghee Kang

Book Review of ‘The Four Talent Giants: National Strategies for Human Resource Development Across Japan, Australia, China, and India’: By Gi‐Wook Shin, Stanford University Press, 2025, 344 pp. $35.00 (paper). ISBN: 9781503643024 Https://Www.Sup.Org/Books/Sociology/Four‐talent‐giants pp. 267-268

Joanne Cao

Retiring in a New Age: Life After Paid Work: By Russell D. Lansbury and Marian Baird, Routledge, London and New York, 2026. Xiii + 101 pp. £52.99; £17.99. ISBN: 9781041118329 (hbk), ISBN: 9781003661795 (ebk) pp. 269-270

Edmund Heery

Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms pp. 271-281

David A. Spencer

The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity.: By Panos Theodoropoulos. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2025. 224 Pp. ISBN 9781509564996, $24.95 (paperback) pp. 282-283

Yusuf Murteza

Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism: Edited by Phil Jones, Verso, October 5, 2021. 144 pp. $19.95. ISBN: 9781839760433 pp. 284-285

Xinxuan Li

Common Pressures, Uneven Trajectories: The Variegated Europeanisation of Wage Regulation Institutions pp. 286-298

Vincenzo Maccarrone

The Digital Factory: The Human Labor of Automation—A Knowledge Graph of Human Rights Protection for Platform Workers: By Moritz Altenried, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 208 pp. Paperback $27.50. ISBN:978‐0‐2268‐1548‐0 pp. 299-301

Ting Li

Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World: By Jaz Brisack, Simon and Schuster, 2026. 310 pp. $28.99 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐6680‐8079‐5 pp. 302-303

Leonard Bierman and Rafael Gely

Emerging Auto Industries in a World of Global Value Chains: Actors, Policies and Structural Issues: By Lorenza Monaco and Martin Schröder, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026, 331 pp. Hardback €179. ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐76409‐7 pp. 304-305

Dogan Sengul

Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work: When Workers Take Over: Edited by Dario Azzellini and Marcelo Vieta, Routledge, August 2025, 328pp. $61.8. ISBN:9780367442224 pp. 306-307

ChuanZhi Ye

Prosocial Unionism, Workplace Instrumentality and the Union Experience in the United States, Canada and France pp. 308-322

D. C. De La Haye, Andrew Keyes, Pauline de Becdelièvre, Lorenzo Frangi and Jack Fiorito

Who Benefits From Right‐to‐Disconnect Legislation in Europe? Cross‐National and Gendered Effects on Employee Wellbeing pp. 323-340

Cherise Regier

Globalization and Income Distribution: What Is the Role for Workers’ Structural Bargaining Power? pp. 341-357

Panagiotis Iliopoulos

Empowered for Democracy: Supervisory Role, National‐Level Workplace Democracy and Political Involvement pp. 358-377

Steven A. Brieger, Eva Selenko and Alexander Newman

Digital Transformation of Retail Work: The Rise of Chaotic Rationalisation pp. 378-393

Chris Tilly and Françoise Carré

Theories and Concepts in Work and Employment Relations: By Andrew Smith, Pauline Dibben and Adrian Wilkinson, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, 332 pp. Price £29.56 Paperback, Hardback £135. ISBN: 9781035316205 pp. 394-395

Stephen Mustchin

Volume 64, issue 1, 2026

City, Space and Trade Unionism: The Spatiality of Labour in the Metal Industry: By Beltrán Roca. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 290 pp., ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐54610‐2 pp. 3-4

Belén Martínez Caparrós

The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy pp. 5-20

Michael David Maffie and Hector Hurtado

The Representativeness of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and Its Implications for UK Wage Policy pp. 21-36

John Forth, Alex Bryson, Phan Van, Felix Ritchie, Carl Singleton, Lucy Stokes and Damian Whittard

Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI: By James Muldoon, Mark Graham, and Callum Cant, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, 2024. 288 pp. ISBN (Bloomsbury): 9781639734962, Hardcover: US $29.99, Epub & Mobi: US $20.99 pp. 37-38

Hao‐Ren Liu

Working From Home and Performance Pay: Individual or Collective Payment Schemes? pp. 39-51

Uwe Jirjahn and Cinzia Rienzo

Disentangling Job Satisfaction: The Roles of Monetary and Non‐Monetary Factors Across Job Types and Income Levels pp. 52-75

Cristina Bernini and Alessandro Tampieri

Communities of Struggle: Spatializing Power Resources in Peru's Agrarian Strike pp. 76-90

Omar Manky and Micaela Reynoso

David Marsden's Comparative and Theoretical Craft: Signposts to a Better World of Work pp. 91-100

Sarah Ashwin, Rafael Gomez and Patrice Laroche

Migrants, Refugees and Employer Discrimination pp. 101-113

Liwen Guo and Massimiliano Tani

Industry 4.0 and the Future of Work: Global Production Networks, Global Disassembly Networks, and the Circular Economy: By Al Rainnie, Andrew Herod, and Susan McGrath‐Champ, Edward Elgar, 8 Nov 2024, 320 pp. £110.00 ISBN: 978‐1‐80037‐536‐9 pp. 114-115

Michael Keaney

Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Employee Pay in the United Kingdom: Evidence From Matched Employer–Employee Data pp. 116-129

Felix Schulz, Danat Valizade, Mark Stuart, Magdalena Soffia and Jolene Skordis

More Than a Floor: Analysing the Distributive and Employment Impacts of a Wage Policy pp. 130-145

Pablo Blanchard, Paula Carrasco, Rodrigo Ceni and Cecilia Parada

Focusing or Fragmenting Representation at Work? Specialist Trade Union Representation in the United Kingdom: By Andy Hodder and Miguel Martínez Lucio, Leeds: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2025. 132 pp. ISBN Electronic: 978‐1‐80117‐482‐4, ISBN Print: 978‐1‐80117‐483‐1, £75 (hardback) pp. 146-147

Jim Doran

The Impact of Staff and Manager Training on Firm Productivity: Differential and Interaction Effects pp. 148-167

Susan Schwarz, Jun Du, Uzoamaka Nduka and Lin Zhang

Trade Union Power and the Quality of Working Life Under Industry 4.0: Bargaining Outcomes in Truck and Car Components Plants pp. 168-181

Valeria Pulignano, Lorenzo Frangi, Yennef Vereycken, Lynford Dor, Rutherford Tod and Lander Vermeerbergen

Job Precarity and Attitudes Towards Labour Unions: The Mitigating Role of Immigrant Background pp. 182-193

Anna‐Lena Nadler and Elif Naz Kayran

Land, Labour, and Agrarian Change in Nepal's Tarai Madhesh: By Fraser Sugden, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2025. 330 pp. ISBN: 9781009555593 pp. 194-195

Hao‐Ren Liu

Managing to Stay: Does Line‐Manager Quality Affect Employees’ Intention to Quit in the NHS? pp. 196-209

Agnes Bäker, Amanda H. Goodall and Victoria Serra‐Sastre