British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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Volume 51, issue 4, 2013

Back to the Future? US Labour in the New Gilded Age pp. 645-665

Ruth Milkman

Marching to Different Tunes: Commitment and Culture as Mobilizing Mechanisms of Trade Unions and Community Organizations pp. 666-688

Maite Tapia

Facilitators and Inhibitors of Collective Action: A Case Study of a US-Owned Manufacturing Plant pp. 689-708

Michelle O'Sullivan and Thomas Turner

The Early Mobilization of Women Union Leaders — A Comparative Perspective pp. 709-732

Geraldine Healy and Gill Kirton

Mobilizing Protest: Insights from Two Factory Closures pp. 733-753

Paul Blyton and Jean Jenkins

Social Movement Theory, Collective Action Frames and Union Theory: A Critique and Extension pp. 754-776

Peter Gahan and Andreas Pekarek

Renewing Union Narrative Resources: How Union Capabilities Make a Difference pp. 777-796

Christian Lévesque and Gregor Murray

Unionization, Inequality and Redistribution pp. 797-825

Jonas Pontusson

The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany: Containing Social Reforms, by Thomas Paster, Routledge, London, 2012, 234 pp., ISBN 978 0 415 61136 7, £80.00, hardback. Das Paradox der Arbeitgeberverbände: Von der Schwierigkeit, durchsetzungsstarke Unternehmensinteressen kollektiv zu vertreten, by Martin Behrens, edition sigma, Berlin, 2011, 225 pp., ISBN 978 3836087308, £14.93, hardback pp. 826-829

Markus Helfen

Privatisation of Public Services Impacts for Employment, Working Conditions, and Service Quality in Europe, edited by Christoph Hermann and Jorg Flecker. Routledge, New York, 2012, 214 pp., ISBN 978 0 415 88493 8, $125, hardback pp. 829-830

Jane Lethbridge

Paradoxes of Internationalization. British and German Trade Unions at Ford and General Motors 1967–2000, by Thomas Fetzer. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2012, 256 pp., ISBN 978 0 7190 8097 5, $100.00, hardback pp. 831-832

Magdalena Bernaciak

EU Labour Migration in Troubled Times, edited by Bela Galgoczi, Janine Leschke and Andrew Watt, Ashgate, Farnham, 2012, 308 pp., ISBN 978 1 4094 3450 4, £60.00, hardback pp. 832-834

Jens Arnholtz

Globalizing Labour? Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1879–1945, by Gopal Balachandran. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2012, 320 pp., ISBN 978 0 19 807884 5, £30.00, hardback pp. 834-836

Titas Chakraborty

Trade Unions and Workplace Training: Issues and International Perspectives, edited by Richard Cooney and Mark Stuart, Routledge, New York, 2012, 200 pp., ISBN 978 0 415 44334 0, £85.00, hardback pp. 836-838

Lisa Schulte

Work and Learning: An Introduction, by Bruce Spencer and Jennifer Kelly. Thompson Educational Publishing Inc., Toronto, 2013, 130 pp., ISBN 978 1 55077 232 6, $24.95, paperback pp. 838-840

Doug Miller

The Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the Healthcare Assistant, by Ian Kessler, Paul Heron and Sue Dopson, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, 256 pp., ISBN 9780199694136, $65.00, paperback pp. 840-842

Ariel C. Avgar

With God on Our Side, by Adam D. Reich, Cornell, ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2012, 192 pp., ISBN 978 0 8014 5066 2, $26.00, hardback pp. 842-844

Melanie Simms

Volume 51, issue 3, 2013

Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research 50th Anniversary Special Issue pp. 425-439

Gregory Jackson, Sarosh Kuruvilla and Carola Frege

Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research 50th Anniversary Special Issue pp. 440-472

Tashlin Lakhani, Sarosh Kuruvilla and Ariel Avgar

Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research 50th Anniversary Special Issue pp. 473-497

Maarten Keune and Paul Marginson

Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research 50th Anniversary Special Issue pp. 498-518

Eileen Appelbaum, Rose Batt and Ian Clark

Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research 50th Anniversary Special Issue pp. 519-552

Richard M. Locke, Ben A. Rissing and Timea Pal

Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research 50th Anniversary Special Issue pp. 553-576

Markus Helfen and Michael Fichter

Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research 50th Anniversary Special Issue pp. 577-600

Veronika Dehnen

Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research 50th Anniversary Special Issue pp. 601-622

Maite Tapia and Lowell Turner

Across Boundaries: The Global Challenges Facing Workers and Employment Research 50th Anniversary Special Issue pp. 623-643

Jean Jenkins

Volume 51, issue 2, 2013

How Does Market Making Affect Industrial Relations? Evidence from Eight German Hospitals pp. 215-239

Ian Greer, Thorsten Schulten and Nils Böhlke

The International Trade Union Confederation: From Two (or More?) Identities to One pp. 240-263

Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick

Peak Union Campaigning: Fighting for Rights at Work in Australia pp. 264-287

Bradon Ellem

Legitimizing Illegal Protest: The Permissive Ideational Environment and ‘Bossnappings’ in France pp. 288-309

Nick Parsons

Indeterminacy and the Regulation of Task Allocation: The Shape of Support Roles in Healthcare pp. 310-332

Ian Kessler, Paul Heron and Sue Dopson

The Views of Members towards Workplace Union Organization in Banking between 1999 and 2008 pp. 333-354

Jeremy Waddington

Promoting Effective Consultation? Assessing the Impact of the ICE Regulations pp. 355-381

Mark Hall, Sue Hutchinson, John Purcell, Michael Terry and Jane Parker

Working Hours in Supply Chain Chinese and Thai Factories: Evidence from the Fair Labor Association's ‘Soccer Project’ pp. 382-408

Russell Smyth, Xiaolei Qian, Ingrid Nielsen and Ines Kaempfer

Corporations in Evolving Diversity: Cognition, Governance and Institutions by Masahiko Aoki. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010, 216pp. ISBN 978-0-19-921853-0, £32.50 hardback pp. 412-415

David Marsden

Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century edited by Glenn Morgan and Richard Whitley. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, 400pp. ISBN 978-0-19-969476-1, £55.00 hardback pp. 415-417

Steve Coulter

The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility by Fabio Berton, Matteo Richiardi and Stefano Sacchi. Policy Press, Cambridge, 2012, 190pp. ISBN 9781847429070, £70, hardback pp. 417-419

Guglielmo Meardi

Making Employment Rights Effective: Issues of Enforcement and Compliance edited by Linda Dickens. Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2012, 238pp. ISBN 9781849462563, £40.00 hardback pp. 419-421

Susan Corby

Workers, Unions and Global Capitalism: Lessons from India by Rohini Hensman. Columbia University Press, New York, 2011, 448pp. ISBN 978-0231148009, £41.50 hardback pp. 421-423

Debashish Bhattacherjee

Volume 51, issue 1, 2013

Where Do Unions Add Value? Predominant Organizing Principle, Union Strength and Manufacturing Productivity Growth in the OECD pp. 1-27

Guy Vernon and Mark Rogers

Rent-Sharing under Different Bargaining Regimes: Evidence from Linked Employer–Employee Data pp. 28-58

Michael Rusinek and Francois Rycx

The Institutional Context of an ‘Empirical Law’: The Wage Curve under Different Regimes of Collective Bargaining pp. 59-79

Uwe Blien, Wolfgang Dauth, Thorsten Schank and Claus Schnabel

Firm-Level Collective Bargaining and Wages in G reece: A Quantile Decomposition Analysis pp. 80-103

Joan Daouli, Michael Demoussis, Nicholas Giannakopoulos and Ioannis Laliotis

The Financial Costs of Caring in the British Labour Market: Is There a Wage Penalty for Workers in Caring Occupations? pp. 104-123

David N. Barron and Elizabeth West

Performance Pay in China: Gender Aspects pp. 124-147

Lin Xiu and Morley Gunderson

Labour Adjustment Implications of Service Offshoring: Evidence from Canada pp. 148-173

Rafael Gomez, Morley Gunderson and René Morissette

Macroeconomic Impacts of C anadian Immigration: Results from a Macro Model pp. 174-195

Peter Dungan, Tony Fang and Morley Gunderson

China's Changing Workplace: Dynamism, Diversity, and Disparity, edited by Peter Sheldon, Sunghoon Kim, Yiqiong Li and Malcolm Warner. Routledge, London and New York, 2011, 332 pp., ISBN 978 0 415 58454 8, £95.00; US$155.00, hardback. Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest, by Tim Pringle. Routledge, London and New York, 2011, 224 pp., ISBN 978 0 415 55958 4, £85.00, hardback pp. 196-198

Marc Blecher

From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China, edited by Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ching Kwan Lee and Mary Gallagher. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2011, 248 pp., ISBN 978 0 8014 5024 2, US$39.95, hardback. Walmart in China, edited by Anita Chan. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2011, 304 pp., ISBN 978 0 8014 7731 7, US$24.95, paperback pp. 199-201

Tim Pringle

The Thought of Work, by John Budd. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2011, 264 pp., ISBN 978 0 8014 7761 4, US$24.95, paperback pp. 202-203

Tim Strangleman

Quiet Politics and Business Power, by Pepper D. Culpepper, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010, 248 pp., ISBN 978 0521118590, £55.00, hardback pp. 203-205

Helen Callaghan

Disintegrating Democracy at Work: Labor Unions and the Future of Good Jobs in the Service Economy, by Virginia Doellgast. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2012, 272 pp., ISBN 978 0 8014 5047 1, $65.00, hardback pp. 205-206

Arndt Sorge

Social Pacts in Europe: Emergence, Evolution, and Institutionalization, edited by Sabina Avdagic, Martin Rhodes and Jelle Visser. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, 336 pp., ISBN 978 0 19 959074 2, £58.00, hardback pp. 207-210

Lucio Baccaro

The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation, edited by Marius R. Busemeyer and Christine Trampusch. Oxford University Press, New York, 2011, 392 pp., ISBN 978 0 19 959943 1, £60.00, hardback pp. 210-212

Timothee Vlandas

The 1926 Miners' Lockout: Meanings of Community in the Durham Coalfield, by Hester Barron. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010, 314 pp., ISBN 0 19 957504 6, £65.00, hardback pp. 212-213

Huw Beynon