British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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Volume 50, issue 4, 2012

Should Women Care Less? Intrinsic Motivation and Gender Inequality pp. 597-619

Nancy Folbre

New Forms of Employee Involvement at European Level — The Case of the European Company (SE) pp. 620-643

Berndt Keller and Frank Werner

Skills and Industrial Relations in Coordinated Market Economies — Continuing Vocational Training in Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland pp. 644-666

Christine Trampusch and Pierre Eichenberger

Effects of Works Councils on Firm-Provided Further Training in Germany pp. 667-689

Jens Stegmaier

Business as a Pivotal Actor in the Politics of Training Reform: Insights from the Case of Germany pp. 690-713

Marius R. Busemeyer

Long-Term Earnings Inequality, Earnings Instability and Temporary Employment in Spain: 1993–2000 pp. 714-736

María Cervini-Plá and Xavi Ramos

Institutions Are What Actors Make of Them — The Changing Construction of Firm-Level Employment Relations in Spain pp. 737-759

Marco Hauptmeier

The Flip Side of Organized Decentralization: Company-Level Bargaining in Denmark pp. 760-781

Anna Ilsøe

Public Employee Compensation and the Efficacy of Privatization Alternatives in US State and Local Governments pp. 782-809

Jeffrey Keefe

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, by Guy Standing. Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2011, 198 pp., ISBN: 9781849663519, £19.99, paperback pp. 810-811

Chiara Benassi

Outcast Labour in Asia — Circulation and Informalization of the Workforce at the Bottom of the Economy, by Jan Breman. Oxford University Press, India, 2010, 391 pp., ISBN: 978 019 806632 3, US$59.95, hardback pp. 811-813

Nikolaus Hammer

NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism, by Tamara Kay. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011, 310 pp., ISBN: 978 0 521 132954, £19.99 (US$29.99), paperback; ISBN: 987 0 521 76287 8, £55.00 (US$90.00), hardback pp. 813-815

Kimberly A. Nolan Garcia

Labor Rights and Multinational Production, by Layna Mosley. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011, 306 pp. ISBN: 978 0 521694414, £19.99, paperback; ISBN: 978 0 521872812, £55.00, hardback pp. 816-817

Kimberly Elliott

Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone, by Paul Osterman and Beth Schulman. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2011, 181 pp., ISBN: 978 0 87154 663 0, $24.95, paperback pp. 817-819

Keith Whitfield

Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places, by Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2011, 240 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 5014 3, $29.00, hardback pp. 819-821

Suzanne Franzway

Social Failures of EU Enlargement: A Case of Workers Voting with their Feet, by Guglielmo Meardi. Routledge, New York, 2012, 230 pp., ISBN: 978 0 415 80679 4, £80.00 ($125.00), hardback pp. 821-823

Michael Gold

Radical Left Parties in Europe, by Luke March. Routledge, Abingdon, 2011, 275 pp. ISBN: 978 0 415 42560 5, £75.00, hardback pp. 823-824

John Kelly

Volume 50, issue 3, 2012

Conceptualizing Work, Family and Community: A Socio-Ecological Systems Model, Taking Account of Power, Time, Space and Life Stage pp. 391-411

Barbara Pocock, Philippa Williams and Natalie Skinner

The Effect of Minimum Wages on Labour Market Outcomes: County-Level Estimates from the Restaurant-and-Bar Sector pp. 412-435

John Addison, McKinley Blackburn and Chad Cotti

Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the United States pp. 436-456

Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn

The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage across the Earnings and Skills Distributions: The Case of Immigrants from the EU's New Member States pp. 457-481

Alan Barrett, Seamus McGuinness and Martin O'Brien

Successful Wage Concertation: The Economic Effects of Wage Pacts and Their Alternatives pp. 482-501

Bernd Brandl

Wage Effects of On-the-Job Training: A Meta-Analysis pp. 502-528

Carla Haelermans and Lex Borghans

The Gender Pay Gap for Private-Sector Employees in Canada and Britain pp. 529-553

Marie Drolet and Karen Mumford

HRM Practices and the Within-Firm Gender Wage Gap pp. 554-580

Nabanita Datta Gupta and Tor Eriksson

Public Law and Private Power — Corporate Governance Reform in the Age of Finance Capitalism – By John W. Cioffi pp. 581-583

Gerhard Schnyder

Politics and Power in the Multinational Corporation: The Role of Institutions, Interests and Identities – Edited by Christoph Dörrenbächer and Mike Geppert pp. 583-585

Martin Seeliger

A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment – By Carrie M. Lane pp. 585-587

Debra Osnowitz

Freelancing Expertise: Contract Professionals in the New Economy – By Debra Osnowitz pp. 587-588

John Storey

Solidarity Transformed: Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America – By Mark S. Anner pp. 588-590

Jose A. Aleman

Mobilizing Restraint: Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-Reform South Asia – By Emmanuel Teitelbaum pp. 590-592

Yoonkyung Lee

Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico – By Natasha Iskander pp. 592-594

Janice Fine

European Works Councils: A Transnational Industrial Relations Institution in the Making – By Jeremy Waddington pp. 594-596

Tony Royle

Volume 50, issue 2, 2012

Union Commitment and Activism in Britain and the United States: Searching for Synthesis and Synergy for Renewal pp. 189-213

Gregor Gall and Jack Fiorito

‘Shopping for Voice’: Do Pre-Existing Non-Union Representation Plans Matter When Employees Unionize? pp. 214-238

A. Tarik Timur, Daphne Taras and Allen Ponak

The Role and Impact of Trade Union Equality Representatives in Britain pp. 239-262

Nicolas Bacon and Kim Hoque

Social Capital and Union Revitalization: A Study of Worker Networks in the UK Audio-Visual Industries pp. 263-286

Richard Saundry, Mark Stuart and Valerie Antcliff

Recruitment, Retention and Exit from Union Membership. An Analysis of Member Flows in Swiss Union Locals pp. 287-307

Daniel Oesch

The Role of the AFL-CIO in Regime Change: The Case of Guyana pp. 308-328

Laxmikant Manroop and Parbudyal Singh

Legacies, Conflict and ‘Path Dependence’ in the Former Soviet Union pp. 329-351

Claudio Morrison, Richard Croucher and Olga Cretu

International Framework Agreements and Industrial Relations Governance: Global Rhetoric versus Local Realities pp. 352-373

Christina Niforou

Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action and the Construction Industry – Edited by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey pp. 374-376

Jeff Grabelsky

Employment Contracts, Psychological Contracts and Employee Well-Being — An International Study – Edited by David E. Guest, Kerstin Isaksson and Hans de Witte pp. 376-378

Davd Henderson

Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity – Edited by Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg pp. 378-380

Ines Wagner

New Trade Union Activism. Class Consciousness or Social Identity? – By Sian Moore pp. 380-382

Richard Croucher

One Company, Diverse Workplaces — The Social Construction of Employment Practices in Western and Eastern Europe – By Marta Kahancová pp. 382-384

Magdalena Bernaciak

Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization and the Afterlife of Development – By Daromir Rudnyckyj pp. 384-386

Natasha Iskander

Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy – Edited by Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom and Victor Narro pp. 386-387

Sandra Stern

Workplace Conflict: Mobilization and Solidarity in Argentina – By Maurizio Atzeni pp. 387-389

Mark Anner

Volume 50, issue 1, 2012

Beyond the Flexibility/Security Trade‐Off: Reconciling Confident Consumers with Insecure Workers pp. 1-22

Colin Crouch

Teamwork, Skill Development and Employee Welfare pp. 23-46

Duncan Gallie, Ying Zhou, Alan Felstead and Francis Green

The Involvement of Civil Society Organizations in British Industrial Relations: Extent, Origins and Significance pp. 47-72

Edmund Heery, Brian Abbott and Stephen Williams

Collective Bargaining, Inter‐Sectoral Heterogeneity and Competitiveness: A Cross‐National Comparison of Macroeconomic Performance pp. 73-98

Franz Traxler and Bernd Brandl

Union Immobility? Trade Unions and the Freedoms of Movement in the Enlarged EU pp. 99-120

Guglielmo Meardi

Management, Organizational Justice and Emotional Exhaustion among Chinese Migrant Workers: Evidence from two Manufacturing Firms pp. 121-147

Stephen J. Frenkel, Min Li and Simon Lloyd D. Restubog

Subcontracting, Posted Migrants and Labour Market Segmentation in Finland pp. 148-167

Nathan Lillie

Power in Coalition — Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change – By Amanda Tattersall pp. 168-169

Bruce Nissen

From Servants to Workers — South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State – By Shireen Ally pp. 170-171

Eddy Donnelly

People at Work — Life, Power and Social Inclusion in the New Economy – Edited by Marjorie L. DeVault pp. 172-174

Chris Warhurst

Working Life: Renewing Labour Process Analysis – Edited by Paul Thompson and Chris Smith pp. 174-175

Paul S. Adler

Up in the Air — How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees – By Greg J. Bamber, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Thomas A. Kochan and Andrew von Nordenflycht pp. 176-177

Ingo Matuschek

The ILO and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919–2009 – By Gerry Rodgers, Eddy Lee, Lee Swepston and Jasmien Van Daele pp. 177-179

Anil Verma

The Challenge of Labour in China — Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories – By Chris King‐Chi Chan pp. 179-181

Mingwei Liu

Union Learning Representatives: Challenges and Opportunities – Edited by Alex Alexandrou pp. 181-183

Mark Stuart

Service Work — Critical Perspectives – Edited by Marek Korczynski and Cameron Lynne Macdonald pp. 183-185

Philippe Mehaut

Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy – Edited by Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson pp. 185-187

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