British Journal of Industrial Relations

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Edmund Heery

From London School of Economics
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Volume 53, issue 4, 2015

Evaluating Industrial Relations Systems of OECD Countries from 1993 to 2005: A Two-Dimensional Approach pp. 645-663

Dong-One Kim, Yoon-Ho Kim, Paula Voos, Hiromasa Suzuki and Young Doo Kim

Globalized Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing Across 47 Countries pp. 664-691

Pedro Martins and Yong Yang

Rule Enactment in a Pan-European Labour Market: Transnational Posted Work in the German Construction Sector pp. 692-710

Ines Wagner

How Does China's New Labour Contract Law Affect Floating Workers? pp. 711-735

Xiaoying Li and Richard Freeman

The Impact of Recession on Adult Training: Evidence from the United Kingdom in 2008–2009 pp. 736-759

Geoff Mason and Kate Bishop

Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? European Institutional Diversity and the Sector-Level Minimum Wage Bite pp. 760-788

Andrea Garnero, Stephan Kampelmann and Francois Rycx

Paid and Unpaid Labour in Non-Profit Organizations: Does the Substitution Effect Exist? pp. 789-815

Benjamin Bittschi, Astrid Pennerstorfer and Ulrike Schneider

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, by David Graeber. Melville House, New York, 2014, 261 pp., ISBN: 9781612193748, $21.55, hardback pp. 816-818

Charles Umney

Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism, edited by Maurizio Atzeni. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013, 264 pp., ISBN: 978 0 23030 317 1, £28.99, paperback pp. 818-819

Martin Upchurch

Just Work: Narratives of Employment in the 21st Century, by Grant Michelson and Shaun Ryan. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014, 190 pp., ISBN: 978 1 137 35015 2 pp. 820-821

Ian Greenwood

New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement, edited by Ruth Milkman and Ed Ott. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2014, 352 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8104-7937-3, paperback pp. 821-823

John Krinsky

If We Can Win Here: The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement, by Fran Quigley. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2015, 224 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8014-5655-8, $79.95, hardback pp. 824-825

Bruce Nissen

Gender and Leadership in Unions, by Gill Kirton and Geraldine Healy. Routledge, New York, 2013, 290 pp., £90.00, hardback pp. 825-827

Rae Cooper

The Unfolding of American Labor Law: Judges, Workers and Public Policy across Two Political Generations, 1790–1850, by Jeffrey Kahana. LFB Scholarly Publishing, El Paso, TX, 2014, 350 pp., ISBN: 978-1-59332-580-0, $85.00, hardback pp. 827-828

Christopher Tomlins

Social Security and Pension Reform: International Perspectives, edited by Marek Szczepanski and John A. Turner. Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo, 2014, 345 pp., ISBN: 9780880994682, Price $40.00, hardback pp. 828-830

Teresa Ghilarducci

Firm Commitment: Why the Corporation Is Failing Us and How to Restore Trust in It, by Colin Mayer. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013, 320 pp., ISBN: 978 0 19 966993 6, £16.99, paperback pp. 831-832

Shinichi Hirota

What Works for Workers? Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low Wage Workers, edited by Stephanie Luce, Jennifer Luff, Joseph A. McCartin and Ruth Milkman. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2014, 362 pp., ISBN: 978-0-87154-571-8, $47.50, paperback pp. 832-834

Jill Rubery

Volume 53, issue 3, 2015

Accounting for Greenfield Union Organizing Outcomes pp. 397-422

Melanie Simms

Are Unions Good or Bad for Organizations? The Moderating Role of Management's Response pp. 423-459

Dionne Pohler and Andrew Luchak

An International Study of Trade Union Involvement in Community Organizing: Same Model, Different Outcomes pp. 460-483

Jane Holgate

Progress Towards Gender Democracy in UK Unions 1987–2012 pp. 484-507

Gill Kirton

Social Media in Union Communications: An International Study with UNI Global Union Affiliates pp. 508-532

Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos and Julie Barnett

Straight to the Core — Explaining Union Responses to the Casualization of Work: The IG Metall Campaign for Agency Workers pp. 533-555

Chiara Benassi and Lisa Dorigatti

Reconsidering Union Activism and Its Meaning pp. 556-579

Jack Fiorito, Irene Padavic and Philip S. DeOrtentiis

Dissatisfied Union Workers: Sorting Revisited pp. 580-600

Colin Green and John Heywood

Beyond the Union-Centred Approach: A Critical Evaluation of Recent Trade Union Elections in China pp. 601-627

Elaine Sio-ieng Hui and Chris King-chi Chan

Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture and Resistance, by Marek Korczynski. ILR Press, Ithaca, 2015, 240pp., ISBN: 978-0-8014-5154-6, $75.00, hardback. Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain, by Marek Korczynski, Michael Pickering and Emma Robertson. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014, 354pp., ISBN: 9781107000179, £69.99, hardback pp. 628-630

Tim Strangleman

Gender Equality in Public Services: Chasing the Dream, by Hazel Conley and Margaret Page. Routledge, London, 2014, 148pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-62776-4, $125.00, hardback pp. 630-632

Susan Corby

Studying Organisations Using Critical Realism: A Practical Guide, edited by Paul K. Edwards, Joe O'Mahoney and Steve Vincent. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, 416 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-966553-2, £24.99, paperback pp. 632-634

Jamie Morgan

Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization, by Alan McKinlay and Philip Taylor. Routledge, London, 2014, 174 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-74905-3, $135.00, hardback pp. 634-635

Michael Bruch

Financialization, New Investment Funds and Labour: An International Comparison, edited by Howard Gospel, Andrew Pendleton and Sigurt Vitols. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, 416pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-965358-4, £55.00, hardback pp. 635-637

Engelbert Stockhammer

Multinational Companies and Domestic Firms in Europe: Comparing Wages, Working Conditions and Industrial Relations, by Maarten van Klaveren, Kea Tijdens and Denis Gregory. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2013, 440 pp., ISBN: 978 1 137 37590 2, £79.00, hardback pp. 637-639

Stefanie Hürtgen

Trade Unions: Past, Present and Future Vol. 24: Paths to Transnational Solidarity, by Hermann Kotthoff and Michael Whittall. Peter Lang, Pieterlen, 2014, 275 pp., ISBN: 978-3-0343-1775-7, Price £43.00, paperback pp. 639-641

Markus Hertwig

The European Social Model in Crisis: Is Europe Losing Its Soul ? edited by Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and ILO, Geneva, 2015, xii + 627 pp., ISBN: 978 1 78347 655 8, £125.00, hardback pp. 641-643

Richard Hyman

Volume 53, issue 2, 2015

Subcontracting and Labour Standards: Reassessing the Potential of International Framework Agreements pp. 181-203

Glynne Williams, Steve Davies and Crispen Chinguno

Global Labour-Standards Advocacy by European Civil Society Organizations: Trends and Developments pp. 204-230

Luc Fransen and Brian Burgoon

European Integration and Pension Policy Change: Variable Patterns of Europeanization in Italy, the Netherlands and Belgium pp. 231-253

Karen M. Anderson and Michael Kaeding

Accounting for National and Sectoral Variance in the Implementation of European Social Partner ‘Soft’ Law: The Cases of the Implementation of the Telework and Work-Related Stress Agreements pp. 254-277

Thomas Prosser

The Effects of the EU Equal-Treatment Directive for Fixed-Term Workers: Evidence From the UK pp. 278-307

Andrea Salvatori

Works Councils and Labour Productivity: Looking beyond the Mean pp. 308-325

Steffen Mueller

European Works Councils and the Crisis: Change and Resistance in Cross-Border Employee Representation at Honda and Toyota pp. 326-349

Markus Hertwig

Trade Union Approaches towards the ICE Regulations: Defensive Realism or Missed Opportunity? pp. 350-375

Mark Hall, John Purcell, Michael Terry, Sue Hutchinson and Jane Parker

Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices, by Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick and Richard Hyman. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013, 272 pp., ISBN: 978 0 19 964441 4, £55.00, hardback pp. 376-377

Horen Voskeritsian

Comparative Political Economy of Work, edited by Marco Hauptmeier and Matt Vidal. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014, 384 pp., ISBN: 978-1-137-32227-2, £34.99, paperback pp. 378-379

Chiara Benassi

Law and Fair Work in China, by Sean Cooney, Sarah Biddulph and Ying Zhu. Routledge, London, 2013, 194 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-67407-2, £85.00, hardback pp. 380-381

Tim Pringle

Insurgency Trap, by Eli Friedman. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2014, 232 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 5269 7, $24.95 paperback pp. 382-384

Chunyun Li

Inequality in the Workplace: Labor Market Reform in Japan and Korea, by Jiyeoun Song, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2014, 248 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8014-5215-4, $49.95, hardback pp. 384-386

Hiroaki Richard Watanabe

Ties that Bind: Cultural Identity, Class, and Law in Vietnam's Labor Resistance, by Tran Ngoc Angie, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2014, 354 pp., ISBN: 978-0-877-27762-0, $51.95, hardback pp. 386-387

Suhong Chae

The Next Crash: How Short-Term Profit Seeking Trumps Airline Safety, by Amy L. Fraher. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2014, 240 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 5285 7, $27.95, hardback pp. 388-389

Maria Papanikou

Adjudicating Employment Rights: A Cross-National Approach, by Susan Corby and Pete Burgess. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014, 280 pp., ISBN: 978 1 1372 6919 5, £70.00, hardback pp. 389-391

Sonia Mckay

Financial Services Partnerships: Labor -Management Dynamics, by Peter J. Samuel. Routledge, New York, 2014, x + 277 pp., ISBN: 978 0 415 42952 8, $135.00, harback pp. 391-393

Mark Stuart

Volume 53, issue 1, 2015

Symposium Introduction: Labour Market Reforms, Employment Performance, Employment Quality, and Changing Social Risks pp. 1-5

Sabina Avdagic and Colin Crouch

Does Deregulation Work? Reassessing the Unemployment Effects of Employment Protection pp. 6-26

Sabina Avdagic

Labour Market Governance and the Creation of Outsiders pp. 27-48

Colin Crouch

The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model pp. 49-69

Werner Eichhorst

Sharing Risks of Labour Market Transitions: Towards a System of Employment Insurance pp. 70-93

Günther Schmid

Flexible Work and Immigration in Europe pp. 94-111

Damian Raess and Brian Burgoon

Fixed-Term Contracts: Short-Term Blessings or Long-Term Scars? Empirical Findings from the Netherlands 1980–2000 pp. 112-135

Irma Mooi-Reci and Ronald Dekker

Hospital Numerical Flexibility and Nurse Economic Security in China and India pp. 136-158

Chris Nyland, Charmine E.J. Härtel, Thin Vu and Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu

Capitalist Diversity on Europe's Periphery, by Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2012, 304 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 7815 4, $78.95, hardback; $26.95, paperback. The Contradictions of Austerity: The Socio-Economic Costs of the Neoliberal Baltic Model, edited by Jeffrey Sommers and Charles Woolfson. Routledge, London, 2014, 200 pp., ISBN: 978 0 415 82003 5, £85.00, hardback pp. 159-162

Guglielmo Meardi

Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity, by Kathleen Thelen. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014, 264 pp., ISBN: 978 1 10767 956 6, £16.99, paperback pp. 162-164

Nathan Lillie

Mobilizing against Inequality: Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism, edited by Lee H. Adler, Maite Tapia and Lowell Turner. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2014, 232 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 7933 5, $21.95, paperback pp. 164-165

Sonila Danaj

Temporary Work, Agencies and Unfree Labour: Insecurity in the New World of Work, edited by Judy Fudge and Kendra Strauss. Routledge, London, 2013, 218 pp., ISBN: 978 0 415 53650 9, £80.00, hardback pp. 166-167

Danielle Jaarsveld

Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients, by Dan Zuberi. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2013, 200 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 5072 3, $59.95, hardback pp. 167-169

Karen Jaehrling

The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It, edited by David Weil. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014, 424 pp., ISBN: 978 0 67472 544 7, £22.95, hardback pp. 169-171

Tashlin Lakhani

Minimum Wages, Pay Equity, and Comparative Industrial Relations, edited by Damian Grimshaw. Routledge, London, 2013, 272 pp., ISBN: 978 0 415 81881 0, £84.00, hardback pp. 171-173

Dale Belman

Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory, by Caitrin Lynch. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2012, 240 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8014 5026 6, $67.95, hardback pp. 173-174

Donald Flynn and Matt Flynn

Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy, edited by Colin Lindsay and Donald Houston. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013, 264 pp., ISBN: 978 0 23034 994 0, £55.00, hardback pp. 174-176

Melanie Jones

Stages of Occupational Regulation: Analysis of Case Studies, by Morris M. Kleiner. Upjohn Institute Press, Kalamazoo, MI, 2013, 291 pp., ISBN: 978 0 8809 94606, $40.00, hardback pp. 176-178

Maria Koumenta

Voices at Work: Continuity and Change in the Common Law World, edited by Alan Bogg and Tonia Novitz. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, 528 pp., ISBN: 978 0 19 968313 0, £70.00, hardback. Creative Labour Regulation: Indeterminacy and Protection in an Uncertain World, edited by Deirdre McCann, Sangheon Lee, Patrick Belser, Colin Fenwick, John Howe and Malte Luebker. International Labour Organization, Geneva, 2014, 302 pp., ISBN: 978 92 2 127820 7, £65.00, hardback. Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment, edited by Katherine V. W. Stone and Harry Arthurs. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2014, 440 pp., ISBN: 978 0 87154 859 7, $47.50, paperback pp. 178-180

Susan Corby