British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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Volume 59, issue 4, 2021

In memoriam David Marsden 1950–2021 pp. 979-981

Sarah Ashwin

Introduction to symposium on the impact of employee influence pp. 982-987

Saul Estrin

Patterns of organizational ownership and employee well‐being in Britain pp. 988-1019

David Marsden

Works councils and organizational gender policies in Germany pp. 1020-1048

Uwe Jirjahn and Jens Mohrenweiser

Unionized employees’ influence on executive compensation: Evidence from Korea pp. 1049-1083

Min Park

Fighting precarious work with institutional power: Union inclusion and its limits across spheres of action pp. 1084-1107

Sean O'Brady

Social Networks and Strike Participation: A Dynamic Analysis of the Hollywood Writers Strike pp. 1108-1130

Güneş Ertan, Michael D. Siciliano, Erin C. McGrath and Molly McGrath

The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain pp. 1131-1152

Huw Beynon, Helen Blakely, Alex Bryson and Rhys Davies

What about the workers? The Conservative Party and the organized working class in British politics, by Andrew Taylor. Manchester University Press, April 2021, 280 pp., ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐0360‐4, price £80.00, h/b pp. 1153-1155

James Parker

Tremors of discontent: My life in print 1970–1988, by Mike Richardson. 200 pp., ISBN: 978‐1‐911522‐59‐1, Price £10.00 pp. 1155-1157

Alan Roe

Workers’ self‐management in Argentina: Contesting neo‐liberalism by occupying companies, creating cooperatives, and recuperating autogestion, by Marcelo Vieta. Hardcover: Leiden: Brill, 2020, $223.00, ISBN:9789004268968, 644 pp. Paperback: Chicago: Haymarket, 2021, $36.00, ISBN:9781642593396, 644 pp pp. 1157-1159

Jerome Nikolai Warren

Invisible Labour: Support Service Workers in India's Information Technology Industry, by Indranil Chakraborty. Routledge India, October 2020, 190 pp. ISBN: 9781032016092, Price ₹995, h/b pp. 1159-1160

Hong Yu Liu

Re‐union: How bold labor reforms can repair, revitalize, and reunite the United States. David Madland. ILR Press, 2021, 227 pp., ISBN 978‐1‐5017‐5537‐8‐52995, price £22.99 pp. 1161-1162

Joyce C. Mamode

A World Beyond Work?: Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia, edited by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Frederick Harry Pitts. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021, 232 pp., ISBN: 9781787691469, Price, p/b pp. 1162-1164

Joseph Mellors

International and comparative employment relations global crises and institutional responses. G. J. Bamber, F. L. Cooke, V. Doellgast and C. Wright. Sage Publications, 2021. ISBN‐978‐1‐5264‐9965‐3 (paperback) £39.24 pp. 1164-1166

Peter Prowse

The Death of Human Capital?: Its Failed Promise and How to Renew it in an Age of Disruption, by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, Sin Yi Cheung. Oxford University Press, 4 Nov 2020, 304 pp., ISBN: 978–0190644314, Price, £18.99 pp. 1166-1168

Michael Keaney

Work and Personality Change What We Do Makes Who We Are, by Ying Wang and Chia‐Huei Wu. Bristol University Press, Feb 4, 2021, 152 pp., ISBN: 978–1529207552, Price GBP 32.00 pp. 1168-1170

Anna‐Maria Köhnke

Fighting for water: Resisting privatization in Europe. Bieler Andreas. Zed Books, 2021. ISBN: 9781786995087 pp. 1170-1172

Vincenzo Maccarrone

Angry Workers World. 2020. Class Power on Zero Hours. London: PM Press, 2020. ISBN:9781527258341 (p/b), 391 pages pp. 1173-1179

George Tsogas

Volume 59, issue 3, 2021

Mobilizing to Win in Europe: Change to Win and the Diffusion of Union Strategy pp. 617-642

Rebecca Kolins Givan and Adrienne E. Eaton

The Role of Organizational Factors in Mobilizing Professionals: Evidence from Nurse Unions in the United States and Germany pp. 643-668

Nick Krachler, Jennie Auffenberg and Luigi Wolf

Striking to Renew: Basque Unions’ Organizing Strategies and Use of the Strike‐Fund pp. 669-700

Jon Las Heras and Lluis Rodríguez

Does Employment Protection Affect Qualification Mismatch? pp. 701-729

Agata Maida and Cristina Tealdi

Occupational Licensing and the Skills Mismatch of Highly Educated Migrants pp. 730-756

Max Tani

The Importance of Political Systems for Trade Union Membership, Coverage and Influence: Theory and Comparative Evidence pp. 757-787

John Budd and J. Ryan Lamare

Inequality and the Economic Cycle: Disabled Employees’ Experience of Work during the Great Recession in Britain pp. 788-815

Melanie Jones, Kim Hoque, Victoria Wass and Nick Bacon

Information Technology, Business Strategy and the Reassignment of Work from In‐House Employees to Agency Temps pp. 816-847

Adam Seth Litwin and Sherry M. Tanious

New Interest Associations in a Neo‐Corporatist System: Adapting the Swiss Training System to the Service Economy pp. 848-873

Alexandra Strebel, Patrick Emmenegger and Lukas Graf

From a ‘Moral Commentator’ to a ‘Determined Actor’? How the International Labour Organization (ILO) Orchestrates the Field of International Industrial Relations pp. 874-898

Huw Thomas and Peter Turnbull

Hiring Frictions in a Regulated Occupation: Evidence from US Laboratories pp. 899-927

Andrew Weaver

Measuring Multi‐Dimensional Labour Law Violation with an Application to South Africa pp. 928-961

Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur, Benjamin Stanwix and Amy Thornton

Crossing Boundaries, Work and Industrial Relations in Perspective, by Russell Lansbury. Routledge, Oxford and New York, 2020, xi + 190 pp., ISBN: 978‐0‐367‐40802‐2 (hbk); 978‐0‐367‐80914‐0 (ebk), £110.00; £33.29 pp. 964-966

Edmund Heery

Gender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the Gains? (Development Trajectories in Global Value Chains), by S. Barrientos. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019, 306 pp., ISBN: 9781108679459, £66.25, hardcover, £20.49, paperback. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108679459 pp. 968-969

Fabian van Onzen

Review of Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism pp. 970-971

Fabian van Onzen

Private regulation of labor standards in global supply chains: Problems, progress and prospects pp. 972-973

Jean Jenkins

Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize. By Leah F. Vosko. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2019. 192 pp. ISBN 9781501742132, $115.00 (hardcover); ISBN 9781501742149, $26.95 (paperback) pp. 974-976

Valeria Pulignano

Volume 59, issue 2, 2021

Do Unions Cause Job Dissatisfaction? Evidence from a Quasi‐Experiment in the United Kingdom pp. 251-278

Ioulia Bessa, Andy Charlwood and Danat Valizade

How Job Changes Affect People's Lives — Evidence from Subjective Well‐Being Data pp. 279-306

Adrian Chadi and Clemens Hetschko

The Effects of Minimum Wage Policy on the Long‐Term Care Sector in England pp. 307-334

Florin Vadean and Stephen Allan

30,000 Minimum Wages: The Economic Effects of Collective Bargaining Extensions pp. 335-369

Pedro Martins

Does Modernizing Union Administrative Practices Promote or Hinder Union Revitalization? A Comparative Study of US, UK and Australian Unions pp. 370-397

Paul F. Clark, Greg J. Bamber, Paul V. Whitehead, Lois S. Gray, Sandra Cockfield and Kay Gilbert

Under the Surface of Individual and Differentiated Pay in Sweden: A Zero‐Sum Game of Performance‐Based Pay? pp. 398-417

Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Bengt Larsson and Petra Adolfsson

Employment and Wages over the Business Cycle in Worker‐Owned Firms: Evidence from Spain pp. 418-443

Jose Garcia‐Louzao

Embedded Fixers, Pragmatic Experimenters, Dedicated Activists: Evaluating Third‐Party Labour Market Actors’ Initiatives for Skilled Project‐Based Workers in the Gig Economy pp. 444-473

Bas A. S. Koene and François Pichault

Constructing Inequalities: Tenure Trajectories of Immigrant Workers and Union Strategies in the Milan Construction Sector pp. 474-502

Lorenzo Frangi, Tingting Zhang and Rupa Banerjee

Divided We Stand? Coalition Dynamics in the German Union Movement pp. 503-531

Martin Behrens and Andreas Pekarek

Hero or Villain? A Cohort and Generational Analysis of How Youth Attitudes Towards Unions Have Changed over Time pp. 532-567

Rachel Aleks, Tina Saksida and Aaron S. Wolf

Finance, Discipline and the Labour Share in the Long‐Run: France (1911–2010) and Sweden (1891–2000) pp. 568-594

Giorgos Gouzoulis

Women's activism behind the screens. Trade unions and gender inequality in the British Film and Television Industries, by Frances C. Galt. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021 pp. 595-597

Cecile Guillaume

Austerity, Women and the Role of the State Lived Experiences of the Crisis, by Vicki Dabrowski. Bristol University Press, 2020, 210 pp., ISBN: 978–1529210521, Price £75 pp. 597-599

Manisha Kushwaha

Japan's Far More Female Future, by Bill Emmott. 224 pp. ISBN: 9780198865551, Price $40.00 pp. 599-600

Ning Wu

Despotism on demand: How power operates in the flexible workplace, by Alex Wood.Cornell University Press, 2020, 192 pp. ISBN: 1501748882. Price $26.95 pp. 601-602

Conor Cradden

Undoing Work, Rethinking Community. A Critique of the Social Function of Work, by Chamberlain, James, A. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2018, 192 pp. ISBN 9781501748448, paperback. $19.95 pp. 603-605

Gabriel Espinoza

Workers’ self‐management in Argentina: Contesting neo‐liberalism by occupying companies, creating coperatives, and recuperating autogestión, edited by Marcelo Vieta pp. 605-606

Catherine Spellman

Working in the context of austerity: Challenges and struggles, edited by Donna Baines, Ian Cunningham. Bristol University Press, 2020, 364 pp., ISBN: 978–1529208672, Price, £80.00 pp. 607-608

Michael Keaney

Re‐inventing Labour Law Enforcement. A Socio‐Legal Analysis by Louise Munkholm. Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2020, 208 pp., ISBN: 978‐1‐50992‐637‐4, £65.00 hardback pp. 609-610

Lorena Poblete

The Right to Strike in International Law, by Jeffrey Vogt, Janice Bellace, Lance Compa, K.D. Ewing, Lord Hendy QC, Klaus Lörcher and Tonia Novitz. Oxford/New York: Hart/Bloomsbury, 223 pp., ISBN: 9781509933556 (hardback), 9781509933570 (Epub). £65 hardback, £58.50 Ebook pp. 610-612

Margaret Prior

Volume 59, issue 1, 2021

Uneven Development, Uneven Response: The Relentless Search for Meaningful Regulation of GVCs pp. 3-24

Jonathan Morris, Jean Jenkins and Jimmy Donaghey

Explaining Employment Effects in Multipolar Value Chains: A Cross‐National Study on Soft Drinks and Dairy Manufacturing in Europe pp. 25-51

Valeria Pulignano, Nikolaus Hammer and Nadja Doerflinger

Upstreamness, Wages and Gender: Equal Benefits for All? pp. 52-83

Nicola Gagliardi, Benoît Mahy and Francois Rycx

Planting Seeds for Social Dialogue: An Institutional Work Perspective pp. 84-113

Annelien Gansemans, Céline Louche and Marijke D'Haese

A ‘Decent Cuppa’: Worker Power and Consumer Power in the Sri Lankan Tea Sector pp. 114-138

Huw Thomas

South Korea's Automotive Labour Regime, Hyundai Motors’ Global Production Network and Trade‐Based Integration with the European Union pp. 139-166

Liam Campling, James Harrison, Ben Richardson, Adrian Smith and Mirela Barbu

Does an Entrepreneurial Career Pay for Women in China? pp. 167-190

Lin Xiu and Morley Gunderson

Towards a Socialization of the EU's New Economic Governance Regime? EU Labour Policy Interventions in Germany, Ireland, Italy and Romania (2009–2019) pp. 191-213

Jamie Jordan, Vincenzo Maccarrone and Roland Erne

Flexibilization at the Core to Reduce Labour Market Dualism: Evidence from the Spanish Case pp. 214-235

Luis Cardenas del Rey and Paloma Villanueva

Workers' Inquiry and Global Class Struggle. Strategies, Tactics, Objectives, edited by Robert Ovetz 288 pages. ISBN: 9780745340869, price £12.49 pp. 236-238

Rohan Dominic Mathews

Review on the ‘Handbook of Research on Employee Voice’, edited by Wilkinson, A., Donaghey, J., Dundon, T. and Freeman, R. B. Handbook of Research on Employee Voice, 2nd edn, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020 pp. 238-241

Vassil Kirov

Contemporary Global Issues in Human Resource Management (2020) Ed. Mehmet Ali Turkmenoglu and Berat Cicek Emerald Publishing. £75 pp. 241-242

Pauric P. O'Rourke

Review of the Triumph of Doubt: Doubt Dark Money and the Science of Deception by David Michaels. Oxford University Press. 2020 ISBN: 978019092265 pp. 242-244

Andrew Watterson

Strategic Compensation and Talent Management: Lessons for Managers, by Jed DeVaro. Cambridge University Press, UK, 2020, 361 pp., ISBN: 9781108861458, Price 51.99, p/b pp. 244-246

Alex Bryson

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy, by Gabriella Lukacs pp. 246-247

Jonathan Morris