British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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Volume 52, issue 4, 2014

Transient Solidarities: Commitment and Collective Action in Post-Industrial Societies pp. 627-657

Charles Heckscher and John McCarthy

E-Communications: An Aspect of Union Renewal or Merely Doing Things Electronically? pp. 658-681

Allan Kerr and Jeremy Waddington

Building Power Together: Union Support for Central Labour Bodies pp. 682-704

Monica Bielski Boris and Jeff Grabelsky

Transnational Organizing: A Case Study of Contract Workers in the Colombian Mining Industry pp. 705-724

Elizabeth Cotton and Tony Royle

Towards Neoliberal Trade Unionism: Decline, Renewal and Transformation in North American Labour Movements pp. 725-752

Ian Thomas MacDonald

Union Membership and Job-Related Training: Incidence, Transferability, and Efficacy pp. 753-778

C. Waddoups

Institutional Solutions to Precariousness and Inequality in Labour Markets pp. 779-809

Zoe Adams and Simon Deakin

Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing, by Jamie K. McCallum. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2013, 232 pp., ISBN 978 0 8014 5193 5, $65.00, hardback pp. 810-812

Jenny Jungehülsing

Transnational Trade Unionism: Building Union Power, edited by Peter Fairbrother, Christian Lévesque and Marc-Antonin Hennebert. Routledge, London, 2013, 304 pp., ISBN: 978 0 415 81880 3, £80.00, hardback pp. 812-814

Matthew Lloyd-Cape

In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism, by John S. Ahlquist and Margaret Levi. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2013, 300 pp., ISBN: 978 069 115 8570, $19.95, paperback pp. 814-816

Charles Umney

The Future of the International Labour Organization in the Global Economy, by Francis Maupain. Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2013, 320 pp., ISBN: 978 1 84 9465 021, £50.00, hardback pp. 816-818

Jeffrey Hilgert

Human Rights and Labor Solidarity: Trade Unions in the Global Economy, by Susan L. Kang. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2012, 360 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8122 4410 6, $69.95, hardback pp. 818-819

Nikolaus Hammer

Global Anti-Unionism, edited by Gregor Gall and Tony Dundon. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2013, 264 pp., ISBN: 978 0 230 30334 8, $100.00, hardback pp. 820-821

Andrew Mathers

What Unions No Longer Do, by Jake Rosenfeld. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014, 288 pp., ISBN: 978 0 674725 119, £29.95, hardback pp. 821-823

Richard Hurd

Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement, by Jane McAlevey. Verso Books, New York, 2014, 332 pp., ISBN: 978 1 78168 315 6, £9.99, paperback pp. 823-825

Andrew Mathers

Radical Unions in Europe and the Future of Collective Interest Representation, edited by Heather Connolly, Lefteris Kretsos and Craig Phelan. Peter Lang, Oxford, 2014, 267 pp., ISBN: 978 3 0343 0803 9, £45.00, hardback pp. 825-827

John Kelly

Volume 52, issue 3, 2014

Workplace Flexibilities, Job Satisfaction and Union Membership in the US Workforce pp. 403-425

Chad Cotti, M. Ryan Haley and Laurie A. Miller

Do Different Work Characteristics Have Different Distributional Impacts on Job Satisfaction? A Study of Slope Heterogeneity in Workers’ Well-Being pp. 426-444

Aekapol Chongvilaivan and Nattavudh Powdthavee

The Part-Time Job Satisfaction Puzzle: Different Types of Job Discrepancies and the Moderating Effect of Family Importance pp. 445-469

Anja Iseke

Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining: What Types of Pay Bargaining Can Foster Positive Pay Equity Outcomes? pp. 470-498

Damian Grimshaw, Gerhard Bosch and Jill Rubery

Does the UK Minimum Wage Reduce Employment? A Meta-Regression Analysis pp. 499-520

Megan Linde Leonard, T. Stanley and Chris Doucouliagos

Variable Pay, Industrial Relations and Foreign Ownership: Evidence from Germany pp. 521-552

John Heywood and Uwe Jirjahn

The Limits on Pay as a Strategic Tool: Obstacles to Alignment in Non-Union Environments pp. 553-578

Jonathan Trevor and William Brown

The Greek Public Sector Wage Premium before the Crisis: Size, Selection and Relative Valuation of Characteristics pp. 579-602

Rebekka Christopoulou and Vassilis Monastiriotis

Childbearing, Women's Employment and Work-Life Balance Policies in Contemporary Europe, edited by Livia Sz. Oláh and Ewa Fratczak. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013, 240 pp., ISBN: 978 0 230 32088 8, $105.00, hardback. Work and Care under Pressure: Care Arrangements across Europe, edited by Blanche Le Bihan, Claude Martin and Trudie Knijn. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2014, 200 pp., ISBN: 978 9 089 64542 5, $37.50, hardback. Unfinished Business: Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of US Work-Family Policy, by Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2013, 168 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 5238 3, $69.95, hardback pp. 603-606

Marian Baird

People with Disabilities: Sidelined or Mainstreamed? by Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse and Peter Blanck. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2013, 300 pp., ISBN: 978 110 7000 476, $99.00, hardback pp. 607-608

Susanne M. Bruyere

The Road to Social Europe: A Contemporary Approach to Political Cultures and Diversity in Europe, by Jean-Claude Barbier. Routledge, London, 2014, 222 pp., ISBN: 978 1 13 802014 6, £24.99, paperback pp. 609-610

Michael Gold

Social Concertation in Times of Austerity, by Alexandre Afonso. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2013, 258 pp., ISBN: 978 9 08964 3957, $43.95, paperback pp. 611-613

Damian Raess

Fallen Heroes in Global Capitalism: Workers and the Restructuring of the Polish Steel Industry, by Vera Trappmann. Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2013, 296 pp., ISBN: 978 1 137 303 646, £65.00, hardback pp. 613-614

Jan Czarzasty

The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe: Institutions and Outcomes in the Age of Globalization, edited by James Arrowsmith and Valeria Pulignano. Routledge, Abingdon, 2013, 247 pp., ISBN: 978 0 415 87593 6, £80.00 hardback pp. 615-616

John Kelly

Working Lives: Work in Britain Since 1945, by Arthur McIvor. Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2013, 360 pp., ISBN: 978 1 40 398766 2, £60.00, hardback pp. 616-618

Ian Greenwood

Economic Crisis, Quality of Work, and Social Integration, edited by Duncan Gallie. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013, 368 pp., ISBN: 978 0 19 966472 6, £27.50, paperback pp. 618-619

Steven Dhondt

Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession: Findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study, by Brigid van Wanrooy, Helen Bewley, Alex Bryson, John Forth, Stephanie Freeth, Lucy Stokes and Stephen Wood. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2013, 268 pp., ISBN: 978 1137275769, £24.99, paperback pp. 620-621

William Brown

Conference and Special Issue on Corporate Social Responsibility and Labour Standards: Bridging Private Governance, Industrial Relations and Management Perspectives pp. 622-625

Lucio Baccaro, Virginia Doellgast and Gregory Jackson

Volume 52, issue 2, 2014

Employment Change after Takeovers: The Role of Executive Ownership pp. 191-236

Azimjon Kuvandikov, Andrew Pendleton and David Higgins

Disconnected Amid the Networks and Chains: Employee Detachment from Company and Union after Offshoring pp. 237-260

Leo McCann

Do Recessions Transform Work and Employment? Evidence from Ireland pp. 261-285

William K. Roche and Paul Teague

Under Pressure: The Impact of Recession on Employees in Ireland pp. 286-307

Helen Russell and Frances McGinnity

Collaboration, Co-operation or Collusion? Contrasting Employee Responses to Managerial Control in Three Call Centres pp. 308-332

Daniel Nyberg and Graham Sewell

Employment Protection, Threat and Incentive Effects on Worker Absence pp. 333-358

Steve Bradley, Colin Green and Gareth Leeves

Informal Employment Dispute Resolution among Low-Wage Non-Union Workers: Does Managerially Initiated Workplace Voice Enhance Equity and Efficiency? pp. 359-386

Andy Charlwood and Anna Pollert

The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration, by Martin Ruhs. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2013, 272 pp., ISBN: 978 0 69113 291 4, $35.00, hardback pp. 387-389

Gabriella Alberti

Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston, by Shannon Gleeson. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2012, 288 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 5121 8, $69.95, hardback pp. 389-390

Lisa Berntsen

Statutory Regulation and Employment Relations: The Impact of Statutory Trade Union Recognition, by Sian Moore, Sonia McKay and Sarah Veale. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013, 280 pp., ISBN: 978 113 7023 797, £65.00, hardback pp. 390-392

Bradley Weinberg

Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work, by Jeffrey Hilgert. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2013, 224 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 5189 8, £29.95, hardback pp. 392-394

Michael Quinlan

Gender and the European Labour Market, edited by Francesca Bettio, Janneke Plantenga and Mark Smith. Routledge, London, 2013, 248 pp., ISBN: 978 0 415 66433 2, £85.00, hardback pp. 394-396

Lena Hipp

Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty, by Jennifer M. Silva. Oxford University Press, New York, 2013, 208 pp., ISBN: 978 0 19 993146 0, £19.99, hardback pp. 396-398

Melanie Simms

The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor, by Chris Rhomberg. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2012, 398 pp., ISBN: 978 0 87154 717 0, $47.50, hardback pp. 398-400

Kim Moody

Volume 52, issue 1, 2014

History of the British Industrial Relations Field Reconsidered: Getting from the Webbs to the New Employment Relations Paradigm pp. 1-31

Bruce Kaufman

Introducing OMOV: The Labour Party–Trade Union Review Group and the 1994 Leadership Contest pp. 33-56

Mark Wickham-Jones

The Paradox of Liberalization — Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the German Political Economy pp. 57-81

Anke Hassel

Environment Pressures, Managerial Industrial Relations Ideologies and Unionization in Chinese Enterprises pp. 82-111

Mingwei Liu and Chunyun Li

Institutions and Strategies: Trends and Obstacles to Recruiting Workers into Trade Unions in Poland pp. 112-135

Jan Czarzasty, Katarzyna Gajewska and Adam Mrozowicki

Active Labour Market Policy by a Profit-Maximizing Firm pp. 136-157

Ruud Gerards, Joan Muysken and Riccardo Welters

Representation in UK Employment Tribunals: Analysis of the 2003 and 2008 Survey of Employment Tribunal Applications (SETA) pp. 158-184

Peter Urwin, Franz Buscha and Paul Latreille

Crisis in the Eurozone, by Costas Lapavitsas. Verso, London, 2012, 268 pp., ISBN: 978 1 84467 969 0, £12.99, paperback pp. 185-187

Olivier Butzbach

Cuts, Privatization and Resistance: Neoliberalism and the Local State 1974 to 1987, by David E. Lowes. Merlin Press, Pontypool, 2012, 188 pp., ISBN: 978 0 85036 633 4, £15.95, paperback pp. 187-188

John Kelly

Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Work Regulation, edited by Judy Fudge, Shae McCrystal and Kamala Sankaran. Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2012, 350 pp. ISBN: 978 1 84946 279 2, £57.00, hardback pp. 188-190

Elisa Pannini