Industrial Relations Journal

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Volume 47, issue 5-6, 2016

Near†sourcing UK apparel: value chain restructuring, productivity and the informal economy pp. 402-416

Nikolaus Hammer and Réka Plugor

Too scared to go sick? The management and the manifestations of workplace attendance in the food retail sector pp. 417-433

Anastasios Hadjisolomou

Free collective bargaining and incomes policy: learning from Barbara Wootton and Hugh Clegg on post†war British Industrial Relations and wage inequality pp. 434-453

Peter Ackers

Parent employment and preschool utilisation in urban China pp. 454-472

Chris Nyland, Beibei Pan, Brian Cooper, Berenice Nyland and Xiaodong Zeng

Widening the lens: a structuration theory perspective on European works councils and transnational labour relations pp. 473-491

Markus Hertwig

Employment protection regulation, trade unions and tenure of employment: An analysis in 23 European countries pp. 492-512

Tomas Berglund and Bengt Furåker

Is there a minimum wage biting in Puerto Rico? Updating the debate pp. 513-529

Jose Caraballo-Cueto

Islands in the stream? The challenges and resilience of the Danish industrial relations model in a liberalising world pp. 530-546

Bjarke Refslund and Ole Henning Sørensen

Health and safety risks in Britain's workplaces: where are they and who controls them? pp. 547-566

Alex Bryson

Volume 47, issue 4, 2016

The interests of white-collar workers and their representation in the German manufacturing sector: new initiatives, opportunity structures, framing and resources pp. 304-321

Thomas Haipeter

Tackling the undeclared economy in the European Union: an evaluation of the tax morale approach pp. 322-340

Colin Williams and Ioana Horodnic

The implementation of equality legislation: the case of disabled graduates and reasonable adjustments pp. 341-359

Laura C. William

Unions and the economic basis of attitudes pp. 360-378

Alex Bryson and Michael White

Cooperation or resistance? Representing workers' health and safety in a hazardous industry pp. 379-395

David Walters, Michael Quinlan, Richard Johnstone and Emma Wadsworth

Statutory recognition and employment relations — the impact of statutory union recognition Sian Moore and Sonia McKay with Sarah Veale Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 pp. 396-397

Jereme Snook

China at work: a labour process perspective on the transformation of work and employment in China Mingwei Liu and Chris Smith (eds) Palgrave, 2016, 424 pp., £48.99 pp. 397-399

Xuebing Cao

Volume 47, issue 3, 2016

Police pay—contested and contestable pp. 204-219

Kim Mather and Roger Seifert

Blacklisting and its legacy in the UK construction industry: employment relations in the aftermath of exposure of the Consulting Association pp. 220-237

Janet Druker

Financialisation, ownership and employee interests under private equity at the AA, part two pp. 238-252

Ian Clark

Skill gaps in the workplace: measurement, determinants and impacts pp. 253-278

Seamus McGuinness and Luis Ortiz

The decision to moonlight: does second job holding by the self-employed and employed differ? pp. 279-299

Andrew Atherton, Joao Faria, Daniel Wheatley, Dongxu Wu and Zhongmin Wu

Notoriously Militant: The Story of a Union Branch at Ford Dagenham Sheila Cohen Merlin Press, 2013, pp xii + 225, ISBN 978-0-85036-645-7 pp. 300-301

Gregor Gall

Volume 47, issue 2, 2016

British union renewal: does salvation really lie beyond the workplace? pp. 102-116

Philip James and Joanna Karmowska

The German temporary staffing industry: growth, development, scandal and resistance pp. 117-143

Jennifer Ferreira

The Living Wage – Policy And Practice pp. 144-162

Peter Prowse and Ray Fells

Migrant workers and involuntary non-permanent jobs: agencies as new IR actors? pp. 163-180

Benjamin Hopkins and Chris Dawson

Industrial relations changes in the Maldives: critical events and actors pp. 181-200

Ali Najeeb and Mary Barrett

Board-level Employee Representation in Europe. Priorities, Power and Articulation Jeremy Waddington and Aline Conchon New York and London: Routledge, 2016, £95.00 hardback, 282 pages + xvi, ISBN: 978-1-138-79202-9 (hardback) ISBN: 978-1-315-76238-8 (e-book) pp. 201-202

Michael Gold

Volume 47, issue 1, 2016

Industrial policy and employment in the UK: evidence from the pharmaceutical sector pp. 2-20

Enda Hannon

John Smith's settlement? The work of the 1992–93 Labour Party—Trade Union Links Review Group pp. 21-45

Mark Wickham-Jones

Labour's interest in corporate governance in the UK: are workers on the board back on the agenda? pp. 46-61

Catherine Casey

Intra-European labour migration and low-wage competition—comparing the Danish and Swedish experiences across three sectors pp. 62-78

Bjarke Refslund and Annette Thörnquist

New class divisions in a modern working life? pp. 79-95

Kathrine Skoland, Astrid Solberg and Kari Anne Holte

The European Social Model in Crisis. Is Europe Losing its Soul? D. Vaughan-Whitehead Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2015, In association with the International Labour Office, Geneva Hardcover: ISBN 978 1 78347 655 8 627 pages + xii (£125.00) e-book: ISBN 978 1 78347 656 5 (£112.50) pp. 96-97

Michael Gold

The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe James Arrowsmith and Valeria Pulignano Routledge, 2013 (1st edn), 232 pp., £90 pp. 98-99

Andy Hodder

Volume 46, issue 5-6, 2015

Labour under the law: a new law of combination, and master and servant, in 21st-century Britain? pp. 345-364

Paul Smith

Redefining retirement: age equality and the rise of performance management pp. 365-380

Glynne Williams and Vanessa Beck

Beyond informality: effectiveness of a new actor for representing call centre workers in Turkey pp. 381-397

Şafak Tartanoğlu

Pharmaceutical drug misuse: are industry of employment and occupation risk factors? pp. 398-417

Sarah Brown, Mark Harris, Jake Prendergast and Preety Pratima Srivastava

Revitalising young workers' union participation: a comparative analysis of two organisations in Quebec (Canada) pp. 418-433

Mélanie Dufour-Poirier and Mélanie Laroche

Antecedents of concession bargaining in the Great Recession: evidence from Ireland pp. 434-445

William K. Roche and Paul Teague

Volume 46, issue 4, 2015

Networks of injustice and worker mobilisation at Walmart pp. 259-274

Alex J. Wood

Critical social science and emancipation: II, development and application pp. 275-292

Paul Edwards

The emergence of a dual system of dispute resolution: private facilitators in Irish industrial relations pp. 293-311

William K. Roche

Industrial relations and the management of whistleblowing after the Francis report: what can be learned from the evidence? pp. 312-327

David Lewis, Alessio D'Angelo and Lisa Clarke

Nobody's responsibility: the precarious position of disabled employees in the UK workplace pp. 328-343

Deborah Foster and Peter Scott

Volume 46, issue 3, 2015

Industrial relations, critical social science and reform: I, principles of engagement pp. 173-186

Paul Edwards

Joining UNISON: does the reform of a union organising strategy change how members perceive their recruitment? pp. 187-207

Jeremy Waddington and Allan Kerr

Organising migrant workers: the living wage campaign at the University of East London pp. 208-221

Ana Lopes and Timothy Hall

The right-to-manage default rule pp. 222-235

Mark Harcourt, Helen Lam and Richard Croucher

Austerity, labour market segmentation and emigration: the case of Lithuania pp. 236-253

Arunas Juska and Charles Woolfson

The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations: Comparative Employment Systems edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Geoffrey Wood and Richard Deeg (eds) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, 762 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-969509-6, £95.00 hardback pp. 254-257

Gary Slater

Equality: The Legal Framework by Bob Hepple Hart Publishing Ltd, 2014 ( 2nd edn ), 254 pp., £24.99 pp. 257-258

Sean Butt

Volume 46, issue 2, 2015

Relied upon for the heavy lifting: can employment protection legislation reforms lead the EU out of the jobs crisis? pp. 81-99

Jason Heyes and Paul Lewis

In from the cold? Ben Roberts and Conservative industrial relations reform pp. 100-116

John Kelly

What influences the progression of employment rights disputes? pp. 117-133

Bernard Walker and R.T. Hamilton

A strike of ‘unorganised’ workers in a Chinese car factory: the Nanhai Honda events of 2010 pp. 134-152

Dave Lyddon, Xuebing Cao, Quan Meng and Jun Lu

Devolution and disabled workers: the experiences of union equality representatives in Wales pp. 153-168

Deborah Foster

Holding the Shop Together: German Industrial Relations in the Postwar Era by Stephen J. Silvia ILR Press, 2013, 264 pp., $79.95 (hardcover), $29.95 (paperback) pp. 169-170

Michael Gold

The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor by Chris Rhomberg Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2012, 398 pp., $44.90 pp. 170-172

Ian Greenwood

Volume 46, issue 1, 2015

An overview of Bill McCarthy's academic and political engagement with industrial relations pp. 1-6

Roger Undy

Trade unions at the workplace pp. 7-11

William Brown

Trade union organisation pp. 12-19

Roger Undy

Engaging with management pp. 20-26

Ian Kessler and Sidney Kessler

Industrial Relations and Labour Law pp. 27-30

Paul Davies and Mark Freedland

The Labour Party pp. 31-33

David Lipsey

A personal appreciation pp. 34-36

Lord John Monks

Deviant typicality: gender equality issues in a trade union that should be different from others pp. 37-53

Deborah Dean

Neoliberal reform for greater competitiveness: labour market deregulation in Japan and Italy pp. 54-76

Hiroaki Richard Watanabe

Offshoring by John Urry Polity Press, 2014 ( Cambridge ), 212 pp., £14.99, ISBN 9780745664866 pp. 77-78

Alison J. Glaister

Transnational Trade Unionism: Building Union Power by Peter Fairbrother, Marc-Antonin Hennebert and Christian Lévesque Routledge, 2013 ( 1st edn ), 304 pp., £85.00 pp. 78-80

Andy Hodder