Industrial Relations Journal

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Volume 45, issue 6, 2014

The Ghent effect for whom? Mapping the variations of the Ghent effect across different trade unions in Denmark pp. 469-485

Laust Høgedahl

The antecedents of union commitment and participation: evaluating moderation effects across unions pp. 486-506

Tom Redman and Ed Snape

Widening the ‘representation gap'? The implications of the ‘lobbying act’ for worker representation in the UK pp. 507-523

Brian Abbott and Steve Williams

Explaining cross-national variations in the prevalence of envelope wages: some lessons from a 2013 Eurobarometer survey pp. 524-542

Colin Williams

Career lesbians. Getting hired for not having kids? pp. 543-561

Stijn Baert

The Future of the International Labour Organization in the Global Economy by Francis Maupain Oxford: Hart Publishing Ltd., 2013, 300 pp + xix, ISBN: 978-1-84946-502-1, £50.00 hardback pp. 562-563

Michael Gold

Gender and Leadership in Unions edited by Gill Kirton and Geraldine Healy (eds) Routledge, 2013, 300 pp., ISBN: 978-0415887045, £80 (HK) pp. 564-565

Jane Parker

Volume 45, issue 5, 2014

Organising non-standard workers: union recruitment in the Irish care sector pp. 373-388

Caroline Murphy and Thomas Turner

Do unions redistribute income from capital to labour? Union density and wage shares since 1960 pp. 389-408

Erik Bengtsson

The reform of Joint Labour Committees—the re-commodification of labour? pp. 409-423

Colin Whitston

Perfect match or missing link? An analysis of the representativeness of trade union representatives in Belgium pp. 424-442

Bram Wauters, Manu Mus, Steven Lannoo and Carl Devos

Dual careers, time-use and satisfaction levels: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey pp. 443-464

Daniel Wheatley and Zhongmin Wu

Economy and Society in Europe: A Relationship in Crisis edited by Luigi Burroni, Maarten Keune and Guglielmo Meardi (eds) Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012 256 pp., £61.00 pp. 465-466

Whyeda Gill-McLure

The Spirit of Philadelphia: Social Justice vs. the Total Market by Alain Supiot Verso, 2012, 160 pp., £16.99; €19.02 pp. 467-468

Jerome Braun

Volume 45, issue 4, 2014

Relative income, absolute income and the life satisfaction of older adults: do retirees differ from the non-retired? pp. 281-299

Umar M. A. Boodoo, Rafael Gomez and Morley Gunderson

Health-care assistants, aspiration, frustration and job satisfaction in the workplace pp. 300-312

Ian Clark

Workplace democracy in the lab pp. 313-328

Philip Mellizo, Jeffrey Carpenter and Peter Matthews

The perceived probability of job loss and future labour market outcomes pp. 329-347

Seamus McGuinness, Mark Wooden and Markus Hahn

The dark side of solidarity: social norms and social relations in the aftermath of strikes pp. 348-367

Kirsten Thommes, Agnes Akkerman, René Torenvlied and Marieke Born

Review of New Forms and Expressions of Conflict at Work by Gregor Gall Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 254 pp., £65.00 Hardback pp. 368-370

Bill Roche

Memoirs of a Militant: Sharply and to the Point by Kevin Halpin Praxis Press, 2012 ( 1st edn ), v-201 pp., £9.99 pp. 370-375

Sheila Cohen

Volume 45, issue 3, 2014

Work, employment and industrial relations: Mrs Thatcher's legacy pp. 193-194

Peter Nolan

Shock, awe and continuity: Mrs Thatcher's legacy for the public sector pp. 195-213

Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley

‘Still too much socialism in Britain’: The legacy of Margaret Thatcher pp. 214-233

Huw Beynon

The Coalition government's reforms to employment tribunals and statutory employment rights—echoes of the past pp. 234-249

Linda Dickens

Margaret Thatcher, the Thatcherite intellectuals and the fate of Keynes pp. 250-265

John Trumpbour

Thatcherism and the public sector pp. 266-280

Peter M. Jackson

Volume 45, issue 2, 2014

Job insecurity and job satisfaction in the United States: the case of public sector union workers pp. 103-120

Benjamin Artz and Ilker Kaya

Union modernisation, coalitions and vulnerable work in the construction sector in Britain pp. 121-136

Stephen Mustchin

Macmillan's children? Young workers and trade unions in the early 1960s pp. 137-152

Glynne Williams and Martin Quinn

Organising young workers in the Public and Commercial Services union pp. 153-168

Andy Hodder

Choosing union representation: the role of attitudes and emotions pp. 169-188

Adrienne E. Eaton, Sean E. Rogers, Tracy F. H. Chang and Paula B. Voos

Reconstruction after the Crisis: A Manifesto for Collective Bargaining by Keith D. Ewing and John Hendy London, Institute of Employment Rights, 2013, 80 pp., £10 (trade unionists and students), £40.00 (others), pbk pp. 189-190

John Kelly

Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession: Findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study by Brigid van Wanrooy, Helen Bewley, Alex Bryson, John Forth, Stephanie Freeth, Lucy Stokes and Stephen Wood Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 267 pp., ISBN 978-1-137-27576-9, £24.99 paperback pp. 190-191

John Kelly

Volume 45, issue 1, 2014

Workplace bullying in the context of organisational change: the significance of pluralism pp. 2-21

Premilla D'Cruz and Ernesto Noronha

The trade union response to agency labour in Sweden pp. 22-38

Kristina Håkansson and Tommy Isidorsson

All work and no … pay? Unpaid overtime in Greece: determining factors and theoretical explanations pp. 39-55

Alexis Ioannides, Eleni Oxouzi and Stavros Mavroudeas

Do cultural differences explain differences in attitudes towards unions? Culture and attitudes towards unions among call centre workers in Britain and India pp. 56-76

Santanu Sarkar and Andy Charlwood

Between consultation and collective bargaining? The changing role of non-union employee representatives: a case study from the finance sector pp. 77-97

Alan Tuckman and Jeremé Snook

Rediscovering Collective Bargaining: Australia's Fair Work Act in International Perspective edited by B. Creighton and A. Forsyth (eds) New York, Routledge, 2012, xii/250 pp., ISBN 13: 978-0-415-52927-3 Also available as an e-book pp. 98-99

Ray Fells

EU Labour Migration in Troubled Times: Skills Mismatch, Return and Policy Responses edited by B. Galgóczi, J. Leschke and A. Watt (eds) Farnham, Ashgate, 2012, 290 pp. ISBN 9781409434504 pp. 100-101

Steve French

Volume 44, issue 5-6, 2013

Free riders: the rise of alternative unionism in Denmark pp. 444-461

Flemming Ibsen, Laust Høgedahl and Steen Scheuer

Activists face bureaucrats: the failure of the Israeli social workers' campaign pp. 462-478

Jonathan Preminger

Evaluating cross-national variations in the extent and nature of informal employment in the European Union pp. 479-494

Colin Williams

Similar, but still different: how US multinational companies in Germany and Switzerland use host-country training and skill practices pp. 495-513

Marlies Kluike and Kerstin Pull

National sovereignty and transnational labour: the case of Mexican seasonal agricultural workers in British Columbia, Canada pp. 514-532

Leah F. Vosko

Relational union organising in a healthcare setting: a qualitative study pp. 533-547

Richard Saundry and Mick McKeown

Collective and individual benefits of trade unions: a multi-level analysis of 21 European countries pp. 548-565

Bengt Furåker and Mattias Bengtsson

Employment relations on major construction projects: the London 2012 Olympic construction site pp. 566-583

Janet Druker and Geoffrey White

Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? Trends, Determinants and Responses to Job Quality in the 21st Century by Chris Warhurst, Françoise Carré, Patricia Findlay and Chris Tilly Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 ( 1st edn ), 280 pp., £33.99 pp. 584-585

Tony Bennett

Union Voices: Tactics and Tensions in UK Organizing by Melanie Simms, Jane Holgate and Edmund Heery Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2012, 203 pp., £14.50 pbk, £43.50 hbk pp. 586-587

John Kelly

Making Mediation Work for You: A Practical Handbook by Kate Aubrey-Johnson with Helen Curtis LAG Education and Service Trust Ltd, 2012 (1st edn), xxvii+ 487pp., £40 pp. 587-589

Emma McAndry

Volume 44, issue 4, 2013

Special Issue. Edited by: Gregor Murray, Christian Lévesque, Christian Dufour and Adelheid Hege pp. 340-354

Gregor Murray, Christian Lévesque, Christian Dufour and Adelheid Hege

Special Issue. Edited by: Gregor Murray, Christian Lévesque, Christian Dufour and Adelheid Hege pp. 355-372

Christian Dufour and Adelheid Hege

Special Issue. Edited by: Gregor Murray, Christian Lévesque, Christian Dufour and Adelheid Hege pp. 373-388

Melanie Simms

Special Issue. Edited by: Gregor Murray, Christian Lévesque, Christian Dufour and Adelheid Hege pp. 389-408

Catherine Le Capitaine, Gregor Murray and Christian Lévesque

Special Issue. Edited by: Gregor Murray, Christian Lévesque, Christian Dufour and Adelheid Hege pp. 409-424

Ingrid Artus

Special Issue. Edited by: Gregor Murray, Christian Lévesque, Christian Dufour and Adelheid Hege pp. 425-442

David Peetz and Michael Alexander

Volume 44, issue 3, 2013

The business case for equal opportunities pp. 216-239

Rebecca Riley, Hilary Metcalf and John Forth

Slowing down Social Europe? The struggle over work and employment regulation pp. 240-257

Mikkel Mailand

Implications of game theory for theoretical underpinning of cooperative relations in workplace partnership pp. 258-275

Aurora Trif and Malcolm Brady

The influence of internal union factions on union renewal strategies: the case of the Finnish Paper Workers' Union pp. 276-295

Paul Jonker-Hoffrén

Wage claims in the British private sector: 1979–2003 pp. 296-315

Peter Ingram, Neil Rickman and Jonathan Wadsworth

Transfer of labour-management partnership in multinational companies pp. 316-331

Monica Rolfsen

Diversity, Ethnicity, Migration and Work: International Perspectives – By Geraldine Healy and Franklin Oikelome pp. 332-333

Nelarine Cornelius

Industrial Relations after Pinochet-firm Level Unionism and Collective Bargaining Outcomes in Chile – By Indira Palacios-Valladares pp. 334-335

Cecilia Senen Gonzalez

Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry – By Francine Moccio pp. 336-338

Geraldine Healy

Volume 44, issue 2, 2013

The transition from individual to collective labour relations in C hina pp. 102-121

Chang Kai and William Brown

Membership, influence and voice: a discussion of trade union renewal in the F rench context pp. 122-138

Susan Milner and Andrew Mathers

Labour solidarity in crisis? Lessons from G eneral M otors pp. 139-153

Magdalena Bernaciak

Speaking up: employee voice and attitudes to unions in a non-union US multinational firm pp. 154-170

Thomas Turner and Michelle O'Sullivan

Voluntary organisations and marketisation: a dynamic of employment degradation pp. 171-188

Ian Cunningham, Gary Hearne and Philip James

Workplace mediation and the empowerment of disputants: rhetoric or reality? pp. 189-209

Tony Bennett

Trade Unions in West Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by Craig Phelan (ed) Peter Lang, Oxford, 2011, 282 pp., £40, ISBN 978-3-0343-0117-6 (pbk) pp. 210-211

John Stirling

China's Changing Workplace: Dynamism, Diversity and Disparity by Peter Sheldon, Sunghoon Kim, Yiqiong Li and Malcolm Warner Routledge, 2011, 326 pp., £95.00., ISBN 978-0-415–58454-8 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-203–82889-2 (ebk) pp. 211-213

Michelle Shaoling Luo

European Works Councils. A Transnational Industrial Relations Institution in the Making by Jeremy Waddington Abingdon, Routledge, 2011, 277 pp + xxi, £85.00 ISBN13: 978-0-415-87390-1 (hardback) pp. 213-214

Michael Gold

Volume 44, issue 1, 2013

Transnational labour markets and national wage setting systems in the EU pp. 2-19

Gerhard Bosch and Claudia Weinkopf

The effectiveness of socially sustainable sourcing mechanisms: Assessing the prospects of a new form of joint regulation pp. 20-37

Chris F. Wright and William Brown

Work environment and participation: the case of teachers in D enmark and N ew Z ealand pp. 38-56

Herman Knudsen, Raymond Markey and Gay Simpkin

Working hours in C hinese enterprises: evidence from matched employer–employee data pp. 57-77

Vinod Mishra and Russell Smyth

New unions in the UK: the vanguard or the rearguard of the union movement? pp. 78-94

Catharine Ross

Retail Work edited by Irena Grugulis and Odul Bozkurt (eds) Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 312pp, ISBN 978-0-230-28357-2, £32.99 pp. 95-96

Andrew Smith

Labor Relations in New Democracies. East Asia, Latin America, and Europe by José A. Alemán Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 196 pages + xv, $89.00; £60.00. ISBN: 978-0-230-62348-4 pp. 96-98

Michael Gold

Good Jobs America: Making Work Better for Everyone by Paul Osterman and Beth Shulman Russell Sage Foundation, 2011, 181 pp., $24.95 pp. 98-100

John Trumpbour