British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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Volume 55, issue 4, 2017

Editorial pp. 687-687

John Godard

Ownership and Pay in Britain pp. 688-715

Andrew Pendleton, Alex Bryson and Howard Gospel

The Impact of Acquiring EU Status on the Earnings of East European Migrants in the UK: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment pp. 716-750

Martin Ruhs

The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution pp. 751-777

Alessia Matano and Paolo Naticchioni

Who Fared Better? The Fortunes of Performance Pay and Fixed Pay Workers through Recession pp. 778-801

Lucy Stokes, Alex Bryson, John Forth and Martin Weale

Collective Bargaining and Technological Investment: The Case of Nurses’ Unions and the Transition from Paper-Based to Electronic Health Records pp. 802-830

Adam Seth Litwin

In Unions We Trust! Analysing Confidence in Unions across Europe pp. 831-858

Lorenzo Frangi, Sebastian Koos and Sinisa Hadziabdic

Blocked and New Frontiers for Trade Unions: Contesting ‘the Meaning of Work’ in the Creative and Caring Sectors pp. 859-878

Charles Umney and Genevieve Coderre-LaPalme

Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century, edited by Peter Ackers and Alastair J. Reid. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016, 374 pp., ISBN: 978-3319341613, Price £66.99, hardback pp. 879-881

Dave Lyddon

Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Elin Haugsgjerd Allern and Tim Bale. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017, 432 pp., ISBN: 9780198790471, $136.50, hardback pp. 881-883

Mark Bergfeld

New Worlds of Work: Varieties of Work in Car Factories in the BRIC Countries by Ulrich Jürgens and Martin Krzywdzinski. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016, 368 pp., ISBN: 9780198722670, £55.00, hardback pp. 883-885

Marco Hauptmeier

Surviving Job Loss: Papermakers in Maine and Minnesota, by Kenneth A. Root and Rosemarie J. Park. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazo, MI, 2016, 251 pp., ISBN: 9780880995085, $19.99, paperback pp. 885-887

Stevie Marsden

Bob Crow: Socialist, Leader, Fighter: A Political Biography, by Gregor Gall. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2017, ISBN: 978-1526100290, Price £20, hardback pp. 887-889

Ralph Darlington

Living Wages around the World, by Richard Anker and Martha Anker. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2017, 392 pp., ISBN: 978-1786431479, £29.95, paperback pp. 889-891

Calum Carson

Volume 55, issue 3, 2017

We Want Them All Covered! Collective Bargaining and Firm Heterogeneity: Theory and Evidence from Germany pp. 463-499

Florian Baumann and Tobias Brändle

Contract Innovation in Germany: An Economic Evaluation of Pacts for Employment and Competitiveness pp. 500-526

John Addison, Paulino Teixeira, Katalin Evers and Lutz Bellmann

Instability and Change in Collective Bargaining: An Analysis of the Effects of Changing Institutional Structures pp. 527-550

Bernd Brandl and Christian Ibsen

Unions and Collective Bargaining in the Wake of the Great Recession: Evidence from Portugal pp. 551-576

John Addison, Pedro Portugal and Hugo de Almeida Vilares

Transnational Collective Agreements and the Development of New Spaces for Union Action: The Formal and Informal Uses of International and European Framework Agreements in the UK pp. 577-601

Stephen Mustchin and Miguel Martínez Lucio

The Developing Role of Unions in China's Foreign-Invested Enterprises pp. 602-625

Andy W. Chan, Ed Snape, Michelle S. Luo and Yujuan Zhai

(Re-)Locating the Local and National in the Global: Multi-Scalar Political Alignment in Transnational European Dockworker Union Campaigns pp. 626-647

Katy Fox-Hodess

Conglomerate Unions and Transformations of Union Democracy pp. 648-671

Adrien Thomas

Waving not Drowning: British Industrial Relations in the Twenty-First Century pp. 672-675

Peter Ackers

A Gedenkschrift to Randy Hodson: Working with Dignity, edited by Lisa A. Keister and Vincent J. Roscigno. Emerald, Bingley, 2016, 237 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78560-727-1, £72.95, hardback pp. 676-678

Tessa Wright

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Employment Relations, by Tony Dundon, Niall Cullinane and Adrian Wilkinson. Sage Publications, London, 2017, 154 pp., ISBN: 978-1-44629-410-9, $21, paperback pp. 678-680

Stan Spiegelaere

Job Quality in Australia: Perspectives, Problems and Proposals, edited by Angela Knox and Chris Warhurst. The Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, 2015, 208 pp., ISBN: 9781862879669, $60.00, hardback pp. 680-682

Tui McKeown

The Labour of Subjectivity: Foucault on Biopolitics, Economy, Critique, by Andrea Rossi. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2015, 208 pp., ISBN: 9781783486007, £80.00, hardback pp. 682-683

Toby Applegate

Volume 55, issue 2, 2017

Off the Waterfront: The Long-Run Impact of Technological Change on Dockworkers pp. 225-273

Zouheir El-Sahli and Richard Upward

False Self-Employment, Autonomy and Regulating for Decent Work: Improving Working Conditions in the UK Stripping Industry pp. 274-294

Katie Cruz, Kate Hardy and Teela Sanders

From Towns to Hotels: Changes in Mining Accommodation Regimes and Their Effects on Labour Union Strategies pp. 295-320

Omar Manky

Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Employee Involvement Practices: Comparative Case Studies in Germany, Brazil and China pp. 321-346

Martin Krzywdzinski

Employer Organizations and Labour Immigration Policy in Australia and the United Kingdom: The Power of Political Salience and Social Institutional Legacies pp. 347-371

Chris F. Wright

The Dynamic Effects of Works Councils on Labour Productivity: First Evidence from Panel Data pp. 372-395

Steffen Mueller and Jens Stegmaier

Levels of Employee Share Ownership and the Performance of Listed Companies in Europe pp. 396-420

Ansgar Richter and Susanne Schrader

Short Notice, Big Difference? The Effect of Temporary Employment on Firm Competitiveness across Sectors pp. 421-449

Romina Giuliano, Stephan Kampelmann, Benoît Mahy and Francois Rycx

On Gender, Labor, and Inequality, by Ruth Milkman. University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2016, 328 pp., ISBN: 978-0-252-08177-4, $28.00, paperback pp. 450-452

Fenella Porter

The Politics of Work-Family Policies. Comparing Japan, France, Germany and the United States, by Patricia Boling. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 268 pp., ISBN: 978-1-107-09812-1 pp. 453-455

Valeria Pulignano

Reimagining Pensions: The Next 40 Years, edited by Olivia S. Mitchell and Richard C. Shea. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016, 384 pp., ISBN: 97580198755449, £55.00, hardback pp. 455-457

Gary Chaison

Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work. Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance, edited by Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2016, 335 pp., ISBN: 9781781954942, £81, hardback pp. 457-459

Martin Seeliger

Volume 55, issue 1, 2017

Determinants of the Wage Share: A Panel Analysis of Advanced and Developing Economies pp. 3-33

Engelbert Stockhammer

Work or Schooling? On the Return to Gaining In-School Work Experiences pp. 34-57

Sofie J. Cabus and Carla Haelermans

Computer Use, Job Tasks and the Part-Time Pay Penalty pp. 58-82

Ahmed Elsayed, Andries de Grip and Didier Fouarge

Evaluating the Illegal Employer Practice of Under-Reporting Employees’ Salaries pp. 83-111

Colin Williams and Ioana A. Horodnic

International Evidence on the Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation pp. 112-136

Andreas Kuhn

Workplace Characteristics and Working Class Vote for the Old and New Right pp. 137-164

Christoph Arndt and Line Rennwald

Does Strike Action Stimulate Trade Union Membership Growth? pp. 165-186

Andy Hodder, Mark Williams, John Kelly and Nick McCarthy

Injunctions as a Legal Weapon in Collective Industrial Disputes in Britain, 2005–2014 pp. 187-214

Gregor Gall

Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era: The Regulatory Challenges, edited by Joanna Howe and Rosemary Owens. Oñati International Series in Law and Society, Hart Publishing, Oxford and Portland, Oregon, 2016, 427 pp., ISBN: 978 1 50990 628 4, $94.99, hardback pp. 215-217

Sonia McKay

Labour, State and Society in Rural India: A Class-Relational Approach, by Jonathan Pattenden. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2016, 216 pp., ISBN: 978-0-7190-8914-5, £75.00, hardback pp. 217-219

Anita Hammer

Unequal Britain at Work, edited by Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and Francis Green. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, 240 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-871284-8, £50.00, hardback pp. 219-221

Danat Valizade

Gendering and Diversifying Trade Union Leadership, edited by Sue Ledwith and Lise Lotte Hansen. Routledge, London, 2012, 338 pp., ISBN: 9780415884853, Price £90.00, hardback pp. 221-222

Sue Abbott