British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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Volume 63, issue 2, 2025

Tackling Precarious Work: Toward Sustainable Livelihoods: By S. C. Carr, V. Hopner, D. J. Hodgetts, and M. Young (eds.), Taylor & Francis, 2024. 603 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐257665‐7 pp. 219-220

Fu‐Hsuan Chen

Populism, Artificial Intelligence and Law: A New Understanding of the Dynamics of the Present: By David Grant, Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. 274 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐254933‐0 pp. 221-222

Fu‐Hsuan Chen

Making Light Work: An End to Toil in the Twenty‐First Century: By David A. Spencer, Cambridge and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2022. 200 pp. £36.16 (hardback). ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐50‐954862‐0; £15.99 (paperback). ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐50‐954863‐7 pp. 223-224

Chang Wang

Evolution of New Working Spaces: Changing Nature and Geographies: By Ilaria Mariotti, Elisabete Tomaz, Grzegorz Micek and Carles Méndez‐Ortega, Cham: Springer, 2024. 141 pp. $36.20. ISBN: 978‐3‐03‐150868‐4 pp. 225-226

Fu‐Hsuan Chen

Designing Sustainable Working Lives and Environments‐Work, Health and Leadership in Theory and Practice: By Kerstin Nilsson, Routledge, 2024. 335 pp. £115. ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐259048‐6 pp. 227-228

Fu‐Hsuan Chen

Exiting the Factory (Volume 2): Strike and Class Formation Beyond the Industrial Sector: By Alexander Gallas, Bristol: University of Bristol Press, July 2024. 292 pp. £85 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐52‐924222‐5, ePub 978‐1‐52‐924223‐2 pp. 229-230

Charvaak Pati

Social Structure Adaptation to Covid‐19: Impact on Humanity: By Suresh Nanwani and William Loxley, New York: Routledge, 2024. 336 pp. ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐269026‐1 pp. 231-232

Fu‐Hsuan Chen

What If You Mobilize Effectively and Still Do Not Win? Reclaiming a Relational Understanding of Strike Outcomes and Employer Power Resources pp. 233-246

John Kallas

Scrutinising Polarisation: Patterns and Consequences of Occupational Transformation in the Swedish Labour Market: By Tomas Berglund and Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, London: Routledge, 2024. 224 pp. £135.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐03‐253634‐7 pp. 247-248

Fu‐Hsuan Chen

Minimum or Living Wage? Framing Effects on Preferences and Expectations pp. 249-265

Tim Schaitberger

Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age A Comparative Perspective: By Donatella della Porta, Riccardo Emilio Chesta, and Lorenzo Cini, Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press, 2022. 176 pp. £80.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐52‐922824‐3 pp. 266-267

Semra Akay

A Tale of Two Centuries? Expanding Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada and Their Impact on Legislation, Conflict and Wages pp. 268-286

Bradley R. Weinberg

Neither Employment nor Self‐Employment: Avenues Towards Functional Platform‐Mediated Work Systems pp. 287-304

Sara Maric, Elke S. Schuessler and Laura Thäter

Organizational Governance and Trade‐Offs Between Pay and Subjective Employee Well‐Being: A Comparative Analysis pp. 305-322

John W. Budd and J. Ryan Lamare

Green Transition and Industrial Relations at the Workplace: Evidence From Italian Firms pp. 323-340

M. Damiani, Fabrizio Pompei and Andrea Ricci

Determinants of Social Dialogue in European Countries (1980–2018) pp. 341-353

Alexandre Afonso, Maximilian Kiecker and Pedro Goulart

An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Financialisation on the Rate of Profit for the US (1955–2019) pp. 354-367

Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes, Matteo Deleidi, Stefano Di Bucchianico and Luigi Salvati

Power to Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand: By Lyndy McIntyre, Otago University Press, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2024. 285 pp. £21.50 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐99‐004875‐3 pp. 368-369

Calum Carson

Volume 63, issue 1, 2025

The micro‐foundations of employment systems: An empirical case study of Britain and France pp. 3-29

Thomas Amossé, Alex Bryson, John Forth and Héloïse Petit

Where rookies prevail: Digital habitus and age‐based earnings differentials in online legal services pp. 30-51

Yao Yao and Sida Liu

Marsden as organization theorist pp. 52-70

Marc Salesina

Employment systems in the twenty‐first century pp. 71-87

Peter Gahan and Peter Turnbull

Poisoned agriculture, The long struggle of pesticide victims First edition, by Jean‐Noël Jouzel, Giovanni Prete. Paris: SciencesPo Les Presses, 2024, pp 283. €24.00 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐2‐7246‐4145‐5 pp. 88-90

Andrew Watterson

Unionizing the Ivory Tower: Cornell workers’ fifteen‐year fight for justice and a living wage By Al Davidoff (2023). Ithaca and London: ILR Press. 238 pages, ISBN: 9781501771552 pp. 91-93

Deepa Kylasam Iyer and Francis Kuriakose

Stitching governance for labour rights. Towards transnational industrial democracy? By Juliane Rainecke and Jimmy Donaghey. Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 260, ISBN: 9781108764421 pp. 94-96

Vincenzo Maccarrone

The regulator‐regulatee relationship in high‐hazard industry sectors: New actors and new viewpoints in a conservative landscape By Jean‐Christophe Le Coze, Benoît Journé (Ed.), Cham: Springer. 2024. vi and 114 pp. EUR 29.99 (pbk). ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐49569‐4 pp. 97-99

Fanny Sakinah, Hertantri Yulia Rahmi and Jilda Sofiana Dewi

Union decline through extension of collective agreements? pp. 100-129

Trond Flaarønning

Robots and immigrants: Who is stealing jobs? By Kostas Maronitis and Denny Pencheva, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2022. 156 pp., USD 45.95 (paperback) ISBN: 9781529212716 pp. 130-132

Deepa Kylasam Iyer

Under which conditions do unions succeed in pushing back dualization? A configurational study of collective agreements in Portugal pp. 133-155

Paulo Marques, Chiara Benassi, Ana Costa and André Pinto

Between conflict and collegiality: Palestinian Arabs and Jews in the Israeli workplace By Asaf Darr, ILR Press, 189 pp., ISBN: 13: 9781501770753, Price $125.00, h/b pp. 156-158

Özgür Sayın

Trade unions and the British industrial relations crisis: An intellectual biography of Hugh Clegg By Peter Ackers. 2024, 254pp, ISBN: 9781032422909, Price GBP £108.00, h/b pp. 159-160

John Kelly

The politics of the minimum wage: Explaining introduction and levels pp. 161-179

Michal Kozák and Georg Picot

A technological construction of society: Comparing GPT‐4 and human respondents for occupational evaluation in the UK pp. 180-208

Paweł Gmyrek, Christoph Lutz and Gemma Newlands

Recasting workers’ power: Work and inequality in the shadow of the digital age Edward Webster and Lynford Dor. Bristol University Press, 2023, pp pp. 209-210

Brian Maregedze

Social dialogue in the gig economy: A comparative empirical analysis By Bonvin, J., Cianferoni, N. & Mexi, M. ISBN: 9781800372368, £80.00 pp. 211-212

Tom Barratt

The price is wrong: Why capitalism won't save the planet by Brett Christophers. 2024, 432 pp., ISBN: 9781804292303, Price £17.60, h/b pp. 213-215

Vincent Collins

Volume 62, issue 3, 2024

Marx in the Field (Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development) Edited by Alessandra Mezzadri, London: Anthem Press. 2021. 256 pp., ISBN: 9781785274497, $125.00, h/b pp. 513-515

Kendra Briken

Employment, trade unionism, and class: The labour market in Southern Europe since the crisis by Gregoris Ioannou. Routledge, July 2021, 224 pp., ISBN: 9780367142889, Price £130.00, h/b pp. 516-518

Valerio della Sala

Fight like hell: The untold story of American labor Kim Kelly. Atria/One Signal Publishers, New York, 2022, xi + 418, ISBN: 9781982171056, Price $28, hardback pp. 519-520

Jason Russell

The missing link: The significance of institutional interdependencies and dynamics of action for transnational labour regulation in multinational companies pp. 521-539

Thomas Haipeter, Sophie Rosenbohm and Christine Üyük

The Politics of Migrant Labour: Exit, Voice, and Social Reproduction by Gabriella Alberti and Devi Sacchetto, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024. 273 pp., ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐2773‐4, 85.00 GBP pp. 540-541

Hong Yu Liu

What do platform workers in the UK gig economy want? pp. 542-567

Nicholas Martindale, Alex J. Wood and Brendan J. Burchell

On the emergence of cooperative industrial and labour relations pp. 568-590

Gabriele Cardullo, Maurizio Conti, Andrea Ricci, Sergio Scicchitano and Giovanni Sulis

Job quality in worker cooperatives: Beyond degeneration and intrinsic rewards pp. 591-613

Lisa Dorigatti, Francesco E. Iannuzzi, Valeria Piro and Devi Sacchetto

Do unions increase participation in further education? pp. 614-639

Fredrik B. Kostøl

Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working‐Class Hero by Gregor Gall, Manchester University Press, 2024. ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐7309‐6. Price: £20.00 pp. 640-641

Michael Andrew MacNeil

The real living wage: Civil regulation and the employment relationship by Edmund Heery‐Deborah, Hann‐David Nash, Oxford University Press, 2023. 283 pp., ISBN 978‐0‐19‐883526‐4, Price £76 pp. 642-644

Peter Prowse

The effect of enterprise unions on employment adjustment speed in Japanese firms pp. 645-669

Tomohiko Noda and Daisuke Hirano

The presence, role and economic impact of Employers’ Associations in Europe pp. 670-673

Dieter Sadowski

Employer associations, adaptive innovation and common goods: An integrated framework pp. 674-698

Peter Sheldon, Edoardo Della Torre, Luca Carollo and Raoul Nacamulli

Volume 62, issue 2, 2024

How should we think about employers’ associations? pp. 193-205

Alex Bryson and Paul Willman

Employer associations in Italy: Trends and economic outcomes pp. 206-232

Bernardo Fanfani, Claudio Lucifora and Daria Vigani

All about power after all? A multi‐level analysis of employers’ organization membership in Europe pp. 233-261

Alex Lehr, Giedo Jansen and Bernd Brandl

Immigrants and trade union membership: Does integration into society and workplace play a moderating role? pp. 262-292

Fenet Jima Bedaso and Uwe Jirjahn

Pay transparency intervention and the gender pay gap: Evidence from research‐intensive universities in the UK pp. 293-318

Danula K. Gamage, Georgios Kavetsos, Sushanta Mallick and Almudena Sevilla

The effects of the decentralization of collective bargaining on wages and wage dispersion: Evidence from the Finnish forest and IT industries pp. 319-334

Antti Kauhanen

Collective bargaining and power: Wage premium of collective agreements in Europe 2002–2018 pp. 335-357

Wouter Zwysen and Jan Drahokoupil

Income generation on care work digital labour platforms pp. 358-380

Paula McDonald, Penny Williams, Robyn Mayes and Maria Khan

Employee financial participation and corporate social and environmental performance: Evidence from European panel data pp. 381-409

Geert Braam, Erik Poutsma, Roel Schouteten and Beatrice van der Heijden

Flexibility for equality: Examining the impact of flexible working time arrangements on women's convergence in working hours pp. 410-445

Filippos Maraziotis

The bosses’ union: How employers organized to fight labor before the new deal By Vilja Hulden (2023). Urbana, Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 330 pages, ISBN:9780252086922 pp. 446-448

Deepa Kylasam Iyer

Explaining varieties of social solidarity in supply chains: Actors, institutions and market risks distribution in outsourced public services pp. 449-479

Anna Mori

Employment relations and global governance: The dialogue between the Global Unions and the IFIsBy Yvonne Rueckert. Routledge, July 7, 2023, 232 pp., ISBN: 9781138208803, Price £130.00, h/b pp. 480-482

Vincenzo Maccarrone

Empirical challenges in the study of employer associations and their representativeness pp. 483-510

Thomas Breda

Volume 62, issue 1, 2024

Power and bias in industrial relations research pp. 3-27

Anthony Doucouliagos, Hristos Doucouliagos and T. Stanley

Disability and trade union membership in the UK pp. 28-49

Melanie Jones

Zero hours contracts and self‐reported (mental) health in the UK pp. 50-71

Egidio Farina, Colin Green and Duncan McVicar

Solidarity with atypical workers? Survey evidence from the General Motors versus United Auto Workers strike in 2019 pp. 72-97

Carla Lima Aranzaes, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Philip S. DeOrtentiis and Maite Tapia

The limitations of overtime limits to reduce long working hours: Evidence from the 2018 to 2021 working time reform in Korea pp. 98-126

Stéphane Carcillo, Alexander Hijzen and Stefan Thewissen

Do outside options drive wage inequalities in retained jobs? Evidence from a natural experiment pp. 127-153

Veronika Lukesch and Thomas Zwick

Social movement unionism in Spain's feminized precarious service sector: Criticism, cooperation and competition pp. 154-173

Verna Alcalde‐González, Ana Gálvez‐Mozo and Alan Valenzuela‐Bustos

The world wide web of work. A history in the making by Marcel van der Linden. UCL Press, 2023, 412 pp., ISBN: 9781800084575, Price £50.00, h/b pp. 174-176

George Tsogas

Organizing women. Gender equality policies in French and British Trade Unions by Cécile Guillaume. Bristol University Press, 2021, 212 pp., ISBN: 978–1529213690, Price GBP 80.00, h/b pp. 177-179

Lucia Amorosi

Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd−Frank By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021. $37 (hardcover) pp. 179-181

Kevin D. Tennent

Work and employment relations in Southern Europe: The impact of de‐regulation, organizational change and social fragmentation on worker representation and action (Southern European Societies Series) By Carlos Fernández Rodríguez and Miguel Martínez Lucio, London: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, 208 pp., h/b. ISBN: 9781789909531, Price £80 pp. 181-183

Pau Lopez‐Gaitan

The Logic of Professionalism ‐ Work and Management in Professional Service Organizations ISBN: 9781529206074, Bristol University Press, £26.79 (Paperback) pp. 183-185

Norman Ornelas

Employment: A Key Idea for Business and Society By Jamie Woodcock. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. ISBN 9781032247250. £26.39 pp. 185-187

Eleanor Kirk

Machines against measures By Sotiropoulou, I. (2023). New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic pp. 187-189

Zeynep Ceren Henriques Correia