British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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Volume 57, issue 4, 2019

Re‐Examining Advances in Occupational Licensing Research: Issues and Policy Implications pp. 721-731

Alex Bryson and Morris M. Kleiner

Occupational Licensing and the Earnings Premium in the United States: Updated Evidence from the Current Population Survey pp. 732-763

Samuel J. Ingram

There and Back Again: The De‐Licensing and Re‐Licensing of Barbers in Alabama pp. 764-790

Edward Timmons and Robert Thornton

Effects of Occupational Licensing and Unions on Labour Market Earnings in Canada pp. 791-817

Tingting Zhang

Occupational Regulation in the European Union: Coverage and Wage Effects pp. 818-849

Maria Koumenta and Mario Pagliero

Who Supports Professional Certification? Insights from Employment Arbitration pp. 850-869

Mark Gough and Kyle Albert

Does Regulation Trade Off Quality against Inequality? The Case of German Architects and Construction Engineers pp. 870-893

Davud Rostam‐Afschar and Kristina Strohmaier

The Effects of Occupational Licensing: Evidence from Business‐Level Data pp. 894-918

Marek Zapletal

How Much of Barrier to Entry is Occupational Licensing? pp. 919-943

Peter Q. Blair and Bobby (Wing Yin) Chung

In Memoriam WILLIAM (WILLY) BROWN 1945–2019 pp. 944-946

David Metcalf

Rethinking Global Labour by Ronaldo Munck. Agenda Publishing, Newcastle‐upon‐Tyne, 2018, 280 pp., ISBN: 9781788211055, £19.99, paperback pp. 947-949

George Tsogas

What's Wrong with Work?, by Lynne Pettinger. Policy Press, Bristol, 2019, 240 pp., ISBN: 978‐1447340089, £12.99, paperback pp. 949-950

Carla Maria Kayanan

Globalization and Labour in the Twenty‐First Century, by Verity Burgmann. Routledge, New York and London, 2018, 261 pp., ISBN 978‐0‐415‐52853‐5, Price £37.99 (paperback) pp. 950-952

Mary Gearey

Strong Governments, Precarious Workers: Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization by Philip Rathgeb. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2018, xviii + 215 pp., ISBN: 978‐1‐5017‐3058‐0, Price £45.00 hardback pp. 952-954

Valeria Pulignano

The Politics of Social Inclusion and Labor Representation: Immigrants and Trade Unions in the European Context by Heather Connolly, Stefania Marino and Miguel Martínez Lucio. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY and London, 2019, 200 pp., ISBN: 9781501736575, Price £ 33.32, paperback pp. 954-956

Gabriella Cioce

Collective Bargaining and Gender Equality (Gendered Economy), by Jane Pillinger and Nora Wintour. Agenda Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2018, 192 pp., ISBN 9781788210768, £22.50, paperback pp. 956-958

John Page

The Impoverishment of the American College Student, by James V. Koch. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2019, 283 pp., ISBN: 9780815732617, $24.99, softback pp. 958-959

John Heywood

Volume 57, issue 3, 2019

Interest Arbitration and the Narcotic Effect: Evidence from Three Decades of Collective Bargaining in Ontario pp. 421-452

Michele Campolieti and Chris Riddell

The Structure of the Wage Gap for Temporary Workers: Evidence from Australian Panel Data pp. 453-478

Inga Laß and Mark Wooden

Is Job Insecurity Higher in Leveraged Buyouts? pp. 479-512

Nick Bacon, Kim Hoque and Mike Wright

Strategic Dilemmas: How Managers Use HR Practices to Meet Multiple Goals pp. 513-539

Jae Eun Lee, Rosemary Batt and Lisa M. Moynihan

Performance Pay and Applicant Screening pp. 540-575

Uwe Jirjahn and Jens Mohrenweiser

Collective Action, Business Cleavages and the Politics of Control: Segmentalism in the Swiss Skill Formation System pp. 576-598

Patrick Emmenegger and Lina Seitzl

Work and Volunteering: Longitudinal Relationships between Work‐Related Experiences and Volunteering Behaviour pp. 599-623

Daniela Lup and Jonathan E. Booth

Family, Place and the Intergenerational Transmission of Union Membership pp. 624-650

Alex Bryson and Rhys Davies

Shareholders of the World United? Organized Labour's Preferences on Corporate Governance under Pension Fund Capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom and France pp. 651-675

Paul Bridgen and Marek Naczyk

Are There Gains to Joining a Union? Evidence from Mexico pp. 676-712

Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945–1970, by Anthony Carew. Athabasca University Press, Edmonton, Canada, 2018, 1008 pp., ISBN 978‐1‐77199‐211‐4, Price £45.00 hardback pp. 713-715

Melanie Simms

Women's Work: How Mothers Manage Flexible Working in Careers and Family Life, by Zoe Young. Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK, 2018, 232 pp., ISBN: 978‐1‐5292‐0203‐8, £24.99, paperback pp. 715-716

Tracy Walsh

Employment Law and Human Rights (3rd edn), edited by Robin Allen, Rachel Crasnow, Anna Beale, Claire McCann, Rachel Barrett. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018, 636 pp., ISBN: 978‐0198783978, Price £75.00, p/b pp. 716-718

Fotis Vergis

Volume 57, issue 2, 2019

Shades of Authoritarianism and State–Labour Relations in China pp. 223-246

Jude Howell and Tim Pringle

A Tale of Two Deltas: Labour Politics in Jiangsu and Guangdong pp. 247-274

Manfred Elfstrom

Bargained Equality: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Workplace Gender Equality Agreements and Plans in France pp. 275-301

Susan Milner, Hélène Demilly and Sophie Pochic

Gender Pay Gap, Voluntary Interventions and Recession: The Case of the British Financial Services Sector pp. 302-327

Geraldine Healy and M. Mostak Ahamed

Employment Institutions under Liberalization Pressures: Analysing the Effects of Regulatory Change on Collective Bargaining in Spain pp. 328-349

Martí López‐Andreu

Long‐Run Patterns of Labour Market Polarization: Evidence from German Micro Data pp. 350-376

Ronald Bachmann, Merve Cim and Colin Green

Collective Bargaining and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Italy pp. 377-407

Francesco Devicienti, Bernardo Fanfani and Agata Maida

Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW, edited by Peter Cole, David Struthers, Kenyon Zimmer, Pluto Press, London, 2017, 280 pp., ISBN: 9780745399591, Price £19.99, paperback pp. 408-410

Mark Bergfeld

Social Movements and Organized Labour: Passions and Interests, edited by Jürgen R. Grote and Claudius Wagemann. Routledge, Abingdon, 2018, 232 pp., ISBN: 9781472472045, Price £115.00, hardback pp. 410-412

Vincent Pasquier

Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain, edited by Jake Alimhomed‐Wilson and Immanuel Ness. Pluto Press, London, 2018, 288 pp., ISBN 978‐0745337241, Price £18.99 paperback pp. 412-414

Jeremy Anderson

A Manifesto for Labour Law: Towards a Comprehensive Revision of Workers’ Rights and Rolling out the Manifesto for Labour Law, edited by K. D. Ewing, John Hendy and Carolyn Jones. The Institute of Employment Rights, Liverpool, June 2016 and September 2018, ISBN: 978‐1‐906703‐32‐5 and 978‐1‐906703‐40‐0, both priced £40, paperback pp. 414-416

Roger M. Walden

The Emerging Industrial Relations of China, edited by William Brown and Chang Kai. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017, 266 pp., ISBN: 978‐1107114418, Price £22.99, paperback pp. 416-418

Chris Smith

Volume 57, issue 1, 2019

Improvisers, Incrementalists and Strategists: How and Why Organizations Adopt ADR Innovations pp. 3-32

William (Bill) Roche, Paul Teague, Tom Gormley and Denise Currie

Non‐Standard Time Wage Premiums and Employment Effects: Evidence from an Australian Natural Experiment pp. 33-61

Serena Yu and David Peetz

Buying into Capitalism? Employee Ownership in a Disconnected Era pp. 62-85

Ross Brown, Ronald McQuaid, Robert Raeside, Matthew Dutton, Valerie Egdell and Jesus Canduela

The Role of Employee Stock Purchase Plans — Gift and Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation pp. 86-106

Alex Bryson and Richard Freeman

Profit‐Sharing and Wages: An Empirical Analysis Using French Data between 2000 and 2007 pp. 107-142

Noélie Delahaie and Richard Duhautois

Poaching and Firm‐Sponsored Training pp. 143-181

Jens Mohrenweiser, Thomas Zwick and Uschi Backes‐Gellner

Catching Fire: Institutional Interdependencies in Union‐Facilitated Knowledge Diffusion pp. 182-201

John E. McCarthy

The Spirit of Marikana: The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa, by Luke Sinwell and Siphiwe Mbatha. Pluto Press, London, 2016, 240 pp., ISBN: 9780745336534, Price £75.00, hardback pp. 202-203

Chris Rimell

The Making of an African Working Class: Politics, Law, and Cultural Protest in the Manual Workers' Union of Botswana, by Pnina Werbner. Pluto Press, London, 2014, 306 pp., ISBN: 9780745334950, Price £27.99 pp. 204-205

Lidis Garbovan

Just Work? Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today, Ed. by Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo, ISBN: 9780745335834 pp. 205-207

Katarina Hollan

Global Perspectives on Workers’ and Labour Organizations, edited by Maurizio Atzeni and Immanuel Ness. Springer, London, 2018, 173 pp., ISBN: 978‐981‐10‐7882‐8, €119.59, hardback pp. 207-210

George Tsogas

The Thatcherite Offensive: A Neo‐Poulantzasian Analysis, by Alexander Gallas. Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2016, 192 pp., ISBN: 978‐1608466979, $28.00, paperback pp. 210-211

Elaine Sio‐ieng Hui

The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation, by Peter Fleming. Pluto Press, London, UK, 2017, 320 pp., ISBN: 9780745399409, £14.99, paperback pp. 212-213

Breffni Lennon

The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself, edited by Peter Fleming. Pluto Press, London, 2015, 199 pp., ISBN: 978 0 74533 486 8, £60.00, hardback pp. 213-216

David Watson

Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism and the Possibilities of Purchasing Power, by Louis Hyman and Joseph Tohill. Cornell University Press, New York, 2017, 380 pp., ISBN: 978–1771131445, Price £20.99, paperback pp. 216-217

Francesca Sobande

Extending Working Life for Older Workers: Age Discrimination Law, Policy and Practice by Alysia Blackham. Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2016, ISBN: 978 1 50990 576 8, Kindle Edition £38.28, £28.99, paperback pp. 217-219

George R. Bell