British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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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

Volume 61, issue 4, 2023

Job satisfaction and employer‐sponsored training pp. 771-795

Vasilios D. Kosteas

The link between computer use and job satisfaction: The mediating role of job tasks and task discretion pp. 796-831

Saverio Minardi, Carla Hornberg, Paolo Barbieri and Heike Solga

Adopting telework: The causal impact of working from home on subjective well‐being pp. 832-868

Guillaume Gueguen and Claudia Senik

All work intensity is not created equal: Effort motives, job satisfaction and quit intentions at a grocery chain pp. 869-894

Argyro Avgoustaki and Hans T. W. Frankort

Labour market impacts of occupational licensing and delicensing: New evidence from China pp. 895-921

Mengjie Lyu, Tingting Zhang and Hua Ye

Do mass layoffs affect voting behaviour? Evidence from the UK pp. 922-950

Nils Braakmann and Wessel N. Vermeulen

Institutional support for new work roles: The case of care coordinators in the United States and England pp. 951-974

Nick Krachler

Labour Regimes and Global Production By Elena Baglioni, Liam Campling, Neil M. Coe and Adrian Smith. Agenda Publishing, UK/USA, 2023, 352 pp., ISBN: 9781788216791, Price £29.99, p/b pp. 975-977

Siobhán McGrath

How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour By Sian Lazar. Pluto Press, Jan 2023, 304 pp., ISBN: 9780745347516, Price £19.99, p/b pp. 977-979

Laura McQuade

Lessons in organising: What trade unionists can learn from the war on teachers by Little, G., Sharp, E., Stevenson, H., & Wilson, D. (2023). London: Pluto Press. Paperback ISBN: 9780745345222, £7.49 pp. 979-981

Lorena Gazzotti

Rules to Win by: Power and Participation in Union Negotiations by Jane F. McAlevey and Abby Lawlor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 312 pp., ISBN: 9780197690468, £19.99, h/b pp. 982-983

Vincent Collins

Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employer Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile By Pablo Pérez Ahumada, University of Pittsburgh Press, May 2023, 224 pp., ISBN: 9780822947691 (hardback), Price USD 55.00 pp. 984-986

Yao‐Tai Li

Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age‐A Comparative PerspectiveBy Donatella della Porta, Riccardo Emilio Chesta and Lorenzo Cini. ISBN: 978‐1529228243. Price £80 pp. 986-988

Giuseppe Simone

Management divided: Contradictions of labor management By Matt Vidal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 384 pp. ISBN 9780198795278, $100 (hardcover) pp. 988-990

Valeria Pulignano

Employer engagement: Making active labour market policies work Edited by Jo Ingold and Patrick McGurk. Bristol University Press, Mar 1, 2024, 270 pp., ISBN: 978–1529223002, Price GBP 28.99, p/b pp. 990-992

Sarah Ball

Volume 61, issue 3, 2023

Corporate codes of conduct and labour turnover in global apparel supply chains pp. 481-505

Chunyun Li and Sarosh Kuruvilla

Contrasting union orientations and engagement with international private regulation: The agency and role of labour in MNC subsidiaries in Ghana pp. 506-525

Nathaniel Tetteh and Stephen Mustchin

Coordination versus organization: Diverging logics of firm cooperation in Denmark and Sweden pp. 526-549

Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Lisa Sezer and Virginia Doellgast

Conflict or cooperation? Exploring the relationship between cooperative institutions and robotisation pp. 550-573

Toon Van Overbeke

From monopoly to voice effects? British workplace unionism and productivity performance into the new millennium pp. 574-594

Michail Veliziotis and Guy Vernon

The collective voice of unions and workplace training in Italy: New insights from mixed methods pp. 595-622

Fabio Berton, Anna Carreri, Francesco Devicienti and Andrea Ricci

What did unions do for union workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic? pp. 623-652

Eunice S. Han

Organizational leadership: How much does it matter? pp. 653-673

Getinet Haile

The mythology of ‘Big Data’ as a source of corporate power pp. 674-696

Michael David Maffie

Workplace gender segregation in standard and non‐standard employment regimes in the US labour market pp. 697-722

Alex Makarevich

Two paths towards job instability: Comparing changes in the distribution of job tenure duration in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–2014 pp. 723-751

Xavier St‐Denis and Matissa Hollister

Making Choices, Making Do: Survival Strategies of Black and White Working‐Class Women during the Great Depression by Lois Rita Helmbold (2022). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 247 Pages. ISBN: 9781978826434The Fruit of Her Hands: Jewish and Christian Women's Work in Catalan Cities by Sarah Ifft Decker (2022). University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 233 Pages. ISBN: 9780271093307Women, Work and Activism: Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century edited by Eloisa Betti, Leda Papastefanaki, Marica Tolomelli and Susan Zimmermann (2022). Budapest: Central European University Press. 354 Pages. ISBN: 9789633864418 pp. 752-754

Deepa Kylasam Iyer

The Cambridge Handbook of Labour in Competition Law Edited by Sanjukta Paul, Shae McCrystal and Ewan McGaughey, Cambridge University Press, 2022 pp. 755-756

Ou Lin

T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theatre Owners’ Booking Association in Jazz‐Age America by Michelle R. Scott, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago and Springfield, 2023, xvi + 264 pages, ISBN 978‐0‐252‐08698‐4, paper, US$28.00 pp. 757-759

Braham Dabscheck

Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy Amazon and the Power of Organization by Sarrah Kassem (Author). Bristol University Press, 28 Feb 2023, 222 pp., ISBN: 978–1529226546 (hardback), 978–1529226560 (Epub). £85 hardback, £27.99 Ebook pp. 760-761

Prakriti Dasgupta

Marketization: How Capitalist Exchange Disciplines Workers and Subverts Democracy (Autonomy and Automation) By Ian Greer and Charles Umney. Bloomsbury Academic, November 3, 2022, 192 pages, ISBN: 1913441466, Price $24.95, p/b pp. 762-764

Karen Jaehrling

Exit, Voice, and Solidarity. Contesting Precarity in the US and European Telecommunications Industries by Virginia Doellgast (2022). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 312 Pages, ISBN: 9780197659786 pp. 764-766

Maite Tapia

Where's the ‘Human’ in Human Resource Management Managing Work in the 21st Century By Michael Gold and Chris Smith. Bristol University Press. Sep 6, 2022, 470 pages, ISBN: 978–1529213805, Price GBP 39.99 pp. 766-768

Pauric P. O'Rourke

Volume 61, issue 2, 2023

The decline of paid overtime working in Britain pp. 235-258

David N. F. Bell and Robert Hart

The role of the workplace in ethnic wage differentials pp. 259-290

John Forth, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos and Alex Bryson

Britain and BrExit: Is the UK more attractive to supervisors? An analysis of the wage premium to supervision across the EU pp. 291-312

Leone Leonida, Antonio Giangreco, Sergio Scicchitano and Marco Biagetti

How state influence on project work organization both drives and mitigates gendered precarity in cultural and creative industries pp. 313-335

Valeria Pulignano, Deborah Dean, Markieta Domecka and Lander Vermeerbergen

Flexible labour market and trade unions: Surprising career paths of Dutch sub‐Saharan Africans pp. 336-365

Diane Confurius, Herman van de Werfhorst, Jaco Dagevos and Ruben Gowricharn

Is this workplace bullying? How ideas about conflict shape conflict management strategies pp. 366-391

Paulo Marzionna

The relationship between works councils and firms’ further training provision in times of technological change pp. 392-424

Alexander Lammers, Felix Lukowski and Kathrin Weis

The decoupling between labour compensation and productivity in high‐income countries: Why is the nexus broken? pp. 425-463

Walter Paternesi Meloni and Antonella Stirati

Contemporary Employers’ Organizations: Adaptation and Resilience By Leon Gooberman and Marco Hauptmeier (eds.) London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367611941£130 (hardback), £35.09 (ebook) pp. 464-465

Melanie Simms

Working Democracies: Managing Inequality in Worker Cooperatives by Joan S. M. Meyers (2022). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press pp. 466-467

Stefan Ivanovski

Older Workers in Transition: European Experiences in a Neoliberal EraBy David Lain, Sarah Vickerstaff, Mariska van der Horst. BRISTOL University Press, 2022, 214 pages, ISBN: 1529215005, 9781529215007, £40.00 pp. 468-469

Regina Queiroz

Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management By Matt Vidal. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022, vi + 368, ISBN: 9780198795278, Price $100, hardback pp. 470-471

Jason Russell

Highly Discriminating ‐ Why the City Isn't Fair and Diversity Doesn't Work By Louise Ashley, ISBN 978–1529227673, £19.99 pp. 472-474

Giuseppe Simone

What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now By R. Iversen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9781439922378, $29.95, paperback pp. 474-475

Stan De Spiegelaere

The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank‐and‐File History of the UFW Movement by Christian O. Paiz, The University of North Carolina Press, 2023, xii + 399 pages. ISBN 978‐1‐46967‐214‐4, £34.29 pp. 476-478

Braham Dabscheck

Volume 61, issue 1, 2023

‘It was doing my head in’: Low‐paid multiple employment and zero hours work pp. 3-23

Andrew Smith and Jo McBride

Financialization and the rise of atypical work pp. 24-45

Giorgos Gouzoulis, Panagiotis Iliopoulos and Giorgos Galanis

Becoming a pirate: Independence as an alternative to exit in the gig economy pp. 46-67

Michael David Maffie

Retooling militancy: Labour revitalization and fixed‐duration strikes pp. 68-88

John Kallas

There is power in a union? Union members' preferences and the conditional effect of labour unions on left parties in different welfare state programmes pp. 89-109

Fabian Engler and Linda Voigt

Lopsided inclusion: The impact of multi‐employer bargaining and class‐based unionism on non‐regular employment in South Korea pp. 110-132

Dongwoo Park

The effect of changes in public sector bargaining laws on teacher union membership pp. 133-158

Eunice S. Han

How does working‐time flexibility affect workers' productivity in a routine job? Evidence from a field experiment pp. 159-187

Marie Boltz, Bart Cockx, Ana Diaz Escobar and Luz Magdalena Salas

Tax breaks for incentive pay, productivity and wages: Evidence from a reform in Italy pp. 188-213

Mirella Damiani, Fabrizio Pompei and Andrea Ricci

Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India, by Jörg Nowak. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019, XI, 319 pp., ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐05375‐8/Hardcover ISBN 978‐3‐030‐05374‐1/Softcover ISBN 978‐3‐030‐73126‐7, Price EUR 46.00. ebook, p/b pp. 214-215

Ricardo Framil Filho

For labor to build upon pp. 216-218

Maya Adereth

Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Mining & the Struggle over Black Lung Disease, by Barbara Ellen Smith. Haymarket Books, 2020, pp. 318 pages. ISBN: 978‐1‐64259‐275‐7, US $23.95 pp. 218-221

Braham Dabscheck

Making Light Work: An End to Toil in the Twenty‐First Century, by David A. Spencer. Oxford and Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2022, ix + 205 pp., ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐5095‐4862‐0 (hbk); ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐5095‐4863‐7 (pbk), Price £36.16; £15.99 pp. 221-223

Edmund Heery

Unfree Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States, by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas. Stanford University Press, October 2021, 232 pp. ISBN: 9781503629653, Price £17.99, p/b pp. 223-225

Panchali Ray

Employment, Trade Unionism, and Class: The Labour Market in Southern Europe since the Crisis by Gregoris Ioannou (ed.). (2022). Pgs. 244. Routledge. Hb £96. E‐book £25.57. ISBN 9780367142889 pp. 225-227

Costas Eleftheriou

Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life, by Renyi Hong. Duke University Press Books, May 2022, 248 pp. ISBN: 9781478018223, Price £20.99, p/b pp. 227-229

Birgan Gokmenoglu

Your Boss Is an Algorithm Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour By Antonio Aloisi (Author), Valerio De Stefano (Author). Bloomsbury Publishing, 14 Jul 2022, 200 pp., ISBN: 9781509953189, Price £19.79 ‐ paperback, p/b pp. 229-231

Prakriti Dasgupta