British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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Volume 54, issue 4, 2016

The Nuts-and-Bolts of Publishing in the BJIR III: Reasons for Rejection and Concluding Words pp. 681-684

John Godard

Happier with the Same: Job Satisfaction of Disadvantaged Workers pp. 685-708

Francisco Perales and Wojtek Tomaszewski

A Meta-Analysis of the Union–Job Satisfaction Relationship pp. 709-741

Patrice Laroche

Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance pp. 742-767

Melanie K. Jones, Paul Latreille and Peter Sloane

A ‘Problem of Fairness’ in the Making: The Transformation of Public Services from the Perspective of Postal Workers pp. 768-789

Jörg Flecker, Franz Schultheis and Berthold Vogel

‘Fair Work’ and the Modernization of Australian Labour Standards: A Case of Institutional Plasticity Entrenching Deepening Wage Inequality pp. 790-814

John Buchanan and Damian Oliver

Owner-Managers and the Failure of Newly Adopted Works Councils pp. 815-845

Uwe Jirjahn and Jens Mohrenweiser

What Explains the Union Membership Gap between Migrants and Natives? pp. 846-869

Maria Kranendonk and Paul Beer

Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective, edited by Anita Chan. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2015, 296 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 5349 6, $79.95, hardback pp. 870-871

Gary Chaison

Building China: Informal Work and the New Precariat, by Sarah Swider. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2015, 208 pp., ISBN: 9780801456930, $22.95, paperback pp. 872-873

Thomas Cowan

Contradictions of Employee Involvement in Organizational Change: The Transformation Efforts in NCJM, An Indian Industrial Cooperative, by George M. Kandathil. Lexington Books, Washington, DC, 2015, 192 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4985-0567-3, $80.00, hardback pp. 873-875

Ally R. Memon

Inside the Ford-UAW Transformation: Pivotal Events in Valuing Work and Delivering Results, by Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Dan Brooks and Martin Mulloy. MIT Press, London, 2015, 408 pp., ISBN: 9780262029162, £20.95, hardback pp. 875-877

Jason Russell

Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City, edited by Javier Auyero. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2015, 280 pp., ISBN: 9781477303641, £52.00, hardback pp. 877-879

Jennifer Mateer

Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street, by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2014, 396 pp., ISBN: 978 0 87154 039 3, $35.00, paperback pp. 879-881

Geoff Wood

Business Model Innovation: The Organizational Dimension, edited by Nicolai Foss and Tina Saebi. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, 336 pp., ISBN: 9780198701873, £60.00, hardback pp. 881-883

John Bryson

Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour, edited by C. Costello and M. Freedland. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, 512 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-871410-1, £70.00, hardback pp. 883-884

Ines Wagner

Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity: Tackling Climate Change in a Neoliberal World, by Paul Hampton. Routledge, London, 2015, 212 pp., ISBN: 978-1-13-884142-0, $140.00, hardback pp. 884-886

Eleanor Tighe

Volume 54, issue 3, 2016

The Nuts-and-Bolts of Publishing in the BJIR II: Evaluation Criteria pp. 461-472

John Godard

The Setback in Political Entrepreneurship and Employment Dualization in Japan, 1998–2012 pp. 473-495

Ji-Whan Yun

Resisting Japan's Neoliberal Model of Capitalism: Intensification and Change in Contemporary Patterns of Class Struggle pp. 496-521

Saori Shibata

Employment Systems in Japan's Financial Industry: Globalization, Growing Divergence and Institutional Change pp. 522-551

Mari Yamauchi

From ‘Entering into a Firm’ to ‘Entering into a Profession’: An Anthropological Approach to Changing Personhood in Japan pp. 552-573

Huiyan Fu

Union Strategies, National Institutions and the Use of Temporary Labour in Italian and US Plants pp. 574-596

Valeria Pulignano and Andrea Signoretti

Liberalization Only at the Margins? Analysing the Growth of Temporary Work in German Core Manufacturing Sectors pp. 597-622

Chiara Benassi

Work-Related Training and the Probability of Transitioning from Non-Permanent to Permanent Employment pp. 623-646

Duncan McVicar, Mark Wooden, Felix Leung and Ning Li

Improving Working Conditions in Garment Supply Chains: The Role of Unions in Cambodia pp. 647-672

Chikako Oka

Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China, by Jie Yang. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2015, 288 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8014-5660-2, Price $89.95, hardback pp. 673-675

Andrew Law

The Egyptian Labor Market in an Era of Revolution, edited by Ragui Assaad and Caroline Krafft. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, 304 pp., ISBN: 9780198737254, Price £55.00, hardback pp. 675-677

Jonathan Preminger

The Europeanization of Industrial Relations in the Service Sector: Problems and Perspectives in a Heterogeneous Field, by Stefan Rüb and Hans-Wolfgang Platzer (trans. P. Burgess). Peter Lang, New York, 2015, 244 pp., ISBN: 978-3-0343-1967-6, $64.95, paperback pp. 677-678

Stan De Spiegelaere

Volume 54, issue 2, 2016

The Nuts-and-Bolts of Publishing in the BJIR I: The Process pp. 257-260

John Godard

Pro-Social or Pro-Management? A Critique of the Conception of Employee Voice as a Pro-Social Behaviour within Organizational Behaviour pp. 261-284

Michael Barry and Adrian Wilkinson

The Role of Mediation Institutions in Sweden and Denmark after Centralized Bargaining pp. 285-310

Christian Ibsen

The Implications of the Value Chain and Financial Institutions for Work and Employment: Insights from the Video Game Industry in Poland, Sweden and Germany pp. 311-333

Christina Teipen

The Foundations of Social Partnership pp. 334-357

Martin Behrens and Markus Helfen

Economic Citizenship and Workplace Conflict in Anglo-American Industrial Relations Systems pp. 358-384

Denise Currie and Paul Teague

Inclusion or Dualization? The Political Economy of Employment Relations in Italian and Greek Telecommunications pp. 385-408

Andreas Kornelakis

The Impact of Employees' and Managers' Training on the Performance of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment in the UK Service Sector pp. 409-421

Andreas Georgiadis and Christos Pitelis

The Declining Volume of Workers’ Training in Britain pp. 422-448

Francis Green, Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, Hande Inanc and Nick Jewson

Blacklisted: The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists, by Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain. New Internationalist, Oxford, 2015, 272 pp., ISBN: 978 1 78026 257 4, £9.99, paperback pp. 449-450

Linda Clarke

The Autonomy of Labour Law, edited by Alan Bogg, Cathryn Costello, A.C.L. Davies and Jeremias Prassl. Hart, Oxford, 2015, 442 pp., ISBN: 9781849466219, £60.00, hardback. New Frontiers in Empirical Labour Law Research, edited by Amy Ludlow and Alysia Blackham. Hart, Oxford, 2015, 224 pp., ISBN: 9781849466783, £50.00, hardback pp. 451-453

Andrew Morton

Market Expansion and Social Dumping in Europe, edited by Magdalena Bernaciak. Routledge, London, 2015, 272 pp., ISBN: 978-1-13-878714-8, Price $145.00, hardback pp. 453-455

Stefanie Hürtgen

Minimum Wage, Collective bargaining and Economic Development in Asia and Europe: A Labour Perspective, edited by Maarten Van Klaveren, Denis Gregory and Thorsten Schulten. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2015, 365 pp., ISBN: 978-1-137-51240-6, Hardback pp. 455-457

Geoff White

Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work, by Christoph Hermann. Routledge, London, 2015, 236 pp., ISBN: 9780415810234, $145.00, hardback pp. 457-458

Michael Huberman

Volume 54, issue 1, 2016

Financial Participation: Does the Risk Transfer Story Hold in France? pp. 3-29

Leila Baghdadi, Rihab Bellakhal and Marc-Arthur Diaye

The Effects of Non-Expensed Employee Stock Bonus on Firm Performance: Evidence from Taiwanese High-Tech Firms pp. 30-54

Nien-Chi Liu, Ming-Yuan Chen and Mei-Ling Wang

Do Broad-based Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing and Stock Options Help the Best Firms Do Even Better? pp. 55-82

Joseph Blasi, Richard Freeman and Douglas Kruse

Disability and Perceptions of Work and Management pp. 83-113

Melanie K. Jones

Climbing the Ladder: Gender-Specific Career Advancement in Financial Services and the Influence of Flexible Work-Time Arrangements pp. 114-135

Inge Noback, Lourens Broersma and Jouke Dijk

Age and Work-Related Health: Insights from the UK Labour Force Survey pp. 136-159

Rhys Davies, Melanie Jones and Huw Lloyd-Williams

Employer Association Responses to the Effects of Bargaining Decentralization in Australia and Italy: Seeking Explanations from Organizational Theory pp. 160-191

Peter Sheldon, Raoul Nacamulli, Francesco Paoletti and David E. Morgan

Collective Bargaining in the Canadian Public Sector, 1978–2008: The Consequences of Restraint and Structural Change pp. 192-213

Michele Campolieti, Robert Hebdon and Benjamin Dachis

What Sort of Collective Bargaining Is Emerging in China? pp. 214-236

Chang-Hee Lee, William Brown and Xiaoyi Wen

Young Workers and Trade Unions: A Global View, edited by Andy Hodder and Lefteris Kretsos. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, 2015, 224 pp., ISBN: 978 1 13742 951 3, £67.00, hardback pp. 237-238

Melanie Simms

Worker Resistance and Media: Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century, by Lina Dencik and Peter Wilkin. Peter Lang, New York, 2015, 260 pp., ISBN 9781433124990, £98.00, hardback pp. 239-240

Torsten Geelan

Finding a Voice at Work? New Perspectives on Employment Relations, edited by Stewart Johnstone and Peter Ackers. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, 336 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-966801-4, £24.99, hardback pp. 241-242

Niall Cullinane

What Does the Minimum Wage Do ?, by Dale Belman and Paul Wolfson. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI, 2014, 471 pp., ISBN: 9780880994569, $35.00, paperback pp. 243-244

Damian Grimshaw

Non-Standard Employment in Post-Industrial Labour Markets: An Occupational Perspective, edited by Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2015, 435 pp., ISBN 978-1-78100-171-4, £105, hardback pp. 245-247

Chiara Benassi

European Social Models from Crisis to Crisis: Employment and Inequality in the Era of Monetary Integration, edited by Jon Erik Dølvik and Andrew Martin. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, 464 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-871796-6, £60.00, hardback Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe, edited by Colin Crouch. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2015, 320 pp., ISBN 978 1 78100 400 5, $135.00, hardback pp. 247-249

Jean-Claude Barbier

Labor Standards in International Supply Chains: Aligning Rights and Incentives, by Daniel Berliner, Anne Regan Greenleaf, Milli Lake, Margaret Levi and Jennifer Noveck. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2015, 224 pp., ISBN 978 1 78347 035 8, $110.00, hardback pp. 250-251

Arianna Rossi

Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis, edited by Andreas Bieler, Roland Erne, Darragh Golden, Idar Helle, Knut Kjeldstadli, Tiago Matos and Sabina Stan. Rowman & Littlefield International, London, 2015, 268 pp., ISBN: 9781783482771, £80, hardback and 9781783482788, £27.95, paperback pp. 252-253

Richard Hyman