Work, Employment & Society

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Volume 24, issue 4, 2010

Female part-time managers: networks and career mobility pp. 621-640

Susan Durbin and Jennifer Tomlinson

Early career consequences of temporary employment in Germany and the UK pp. 641-660

Michael Gebel

Neoliberalism and knowledge interests in boundaryless careers discourse pp. 661-679

Juliet Roper, Shiv Ganesh and Kerr Inkson

Organisational restructuring and emerging service value chains: implications for work and employment pp. 680-698

Jörg Flecker and Pamela Meil

Making the connections: bringing skill formation into global value chain analysis pp. 699-710

Paulina Ramirez and Helen Rainbird

Making a difference? The use (and abuse) of diversity management at the UK’s elite law firms pp. 711-727

Louise Ashley

The shackled runner: time to rethink positive discrimination? pp. 728-739

Mike Noon

Employee responses to ‘high performance work system’ practices: an empirical test of the disciplined worker thesis pp. 740-760

Bill Harley, Leisa Sargent and Belinda Allen

Social capital and wage disadvantages among immigrant workers pp. 761-779

Alireza Behtoui and Anders Neergaard

Working at McDonalds: some redeeming features of McJobs pp. 780-802

Anthony M Gould

Banks, bailouts and bonuses: a personal account of working in Halifax Bank of Scotland during the financial crisis pp. 803-812

Vaughan Ellis and Margaret Taylor

Book Review Essay: Active citizenship and work: what and where is the strategic vision? pp. 813-818

Grainne Ketelaar

Book Review: Deborah Howcroft and Helen Richardson (eds) Work and Life in the Global Economy: A Gendered Analysis of Service Work Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, £60.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9780230580848), xii + 284 pp pp. 819-820

Nathalie Mitev

Book Review: Elisabeth Kelan Performing Gender at Work Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, £60.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9780230577817), 253 pp pp. 821-822

Jacqueline H Watts

Book Review: Hendrik Meyer-Ohle Japanese Workplaces in Transition: Employee Perceptions Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, £65.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9780230229389), x + 218 pp pp. 822-824

Anuratha Raman

Book Review: Béla Galgóczi, Janine Leschke and Andrew Watt (eds) EU Labour Migration since Enlargement: Trends, Impacts and Policies Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, £65.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9780754676843), 336 pp pp. 824-825

Demyan Belyaev

Book Review: Alan Felstead, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin Improving Working as Learning Abingdon: Routledge, 2009, £21.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9780415496469), 248 pp pp. 825-827

Gordon Parker

Book Review: K. Anders Ericsson (ed.) Development of Professional Expertise: Toward Measurement of Expert Performance and Design of Optimal Learning Environments New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009, £21.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9780521740081), xvi + 552 pp pp. 827-829

Leonard Holmes

Book Review: Elizabeth Shove, Frank Trentmann and Richard Wilk (eds) Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: Practice, Materiality and Culture Oxford: Berg, 2009, £57.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9781847883643), 256 pp pp. 829-830

Aileen O'Carroll

Book Review: Edward Granter Critical Social Theory and the End of Work Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, £55.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9780754676973), vii + 202 pp pp. 830-832

David Frayne

Volume 24, issue 3, 2010

Managerial control and workplace regimes: an introduction pp. 1-12

Paul Thompson and Diane van den Broek

The myth of the reflexive worker: class and work histories in neo-liberal times pp. 413-429

Will Atkinson

The contents of partnership agreements in Britain 1990-2007 pp. 430-448

Peter Samuel and Nicolas Bacon

‘Lost in translation’: an analysis of temporary work agency employment in hotels pp. 449-467

Angela Knox

Trade union change, development and renewal in emerging economies: the case of Mozambique pp. 468-486

Pauline Dibben

Childbirth and cohort effects on mothers' labour supply: a comparative study using life history data for Germany, the Netherlands and Great Britain pp. 487-507

Didier Fouarge, Anna Manzoni, Ruud Muffels and Ruud Luijkx

The transition to motherhood and part-time working: mutuality and incongruence in the psychological contracts existing between managers and employees pp. 508-525

Penny Dick

Putting the process back in: rethinking service sector skill pp. 526-545

Ian Hampson and Anne Junor

Emotional management in a mass customised call centre: examining skill and knowledgeability in interactive service work pp. 546-564

Sarah Jenkins, Rick Delbridge and Ashley Roberts

Moving beyond skills as a social and economic panacea pp. 565-577

Ewart Keep and Ken Mayhew

Survey errors and survey costs: a response to Timming’s critique of the Survey of Employees Questionnaire in WERS 2004 pp. 578-590

John Forth, Helen Bewley, Alex Bryson, Gill Dix and Sarah Oxenbridge

Book Review Essay: The uncertain destiny of an incomplete revolution pp. 591-596

Fabio Bolzonaro

Book Review: Suzan Lewis, Julia Brannen and Ann Nilsen (eds) Work, Families and Organisations in Transition: European Perspectives Bristol: Policy Press, 2009, £65.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9781847422200), x + 214 pp pp. 597-598

Clare Kelliher

Book Review: Martin Upchurch, Graham Taylor and Andrew Mathers The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe: The Search for Alternatives Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, £55.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9780754670537), 244 pp pp. 598-600

Jo Grady

Book Review: Kevin Doogan New Capitalism? The Transformation of Work Cambridge: Polity, 2009, £16.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9780754633251), xiii + 234 pp pp. 600-601

José-Luis à lvarez-Galván

Book Review: Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism: New Labour, Economic Policy and the Abject State Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, £55.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9780230553095), x + 188 pp pp. 602-603

Douglas Martin

Book Review: Kenneth A. Root and Rosemarie J. Park Forced Out: Older Workers Confront Job Loss Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2009, $57.98 hbk, (ISBN: 9781935049036), 266 pp pp. 603-605

Vanessa Beck

Book Review: Marilyn Hammick, Della Freeth, Danë Goodsman and Jeanette Copperman Being Interprofessional Cambridge: Polity, 2009, £19.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9780745643069), 208 pp pp. 605-606

Shelagh Campbell

Book Review: Chris Rowley and Vimolwan Yukongdi (eds) The Changing Face of Women Managers in Asia London: Routledge, 2008, £30.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9780415437677), xxii + 264 pp pp. 607-608

Akram Al Ariss

Book Review: Egil J. Skorstad and Helge Ramsdal (eds) Flexible Organizations and the New Working Life: A European Perspective Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, £60.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9780754674207), xvi + 272 pp pp. 608-610

Deirdre Anderson

Book Review: Paul Stewart, Ken Murphy, Andy Danford, Tony Richardson, Mike Richardson and Vicki Wass We Sell Our Time No More: Workers’ Struggles against Lean Production in the British Car Industry London: Pluto Press, 2009, £16.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9780745328679), xiii + 258 pp pp. 610-611

Andrew Kilmister

Books for Review pp. 612-614

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Volume 24, issue 2, 2010

Remembering Mike Rose pp. 197-201

Duncan Gallie

Trade union interventions in work-life balance pp. 203-220

Mike Rigby and Fiona O'Brien-Smith

Worker agency and trade union renewal: the case of Poland pp. 221-240

Adam Mrozowicki, Valeria Pulignano and Geert Van Hootegem

Leadership and collective action in the Egyptian trade unions pp. 241-259

Anne Alexander

The growing educational divide in mothers’ employment: an investigation based on the German micro-censuses 1976-2004 pp. 260-278

Dirk Konietzka and Michaela Kreyenfeld

Labour market structures and women’s employment levels pp. 279-299

Marlis C. Buchmann, Irene Kriesi and Stefan Sacchi

Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers pp. 300-317

Bridget Anderson

The jobs immigrants do: issues of displacement and marginalisation in the Irish labour market pp. 318-336

Thomas Turner

Unemployment among immigrants in European labour markets: an analysis of origin and destination effects pp. 337-354

Fenella Fleischmann and Jaap Dronkers

The normative foundations of ‘policy implications’: reflections on international labour migration pp. 355-365

David Bartram

Conflict and repression in an Argentinean car factory: a cycle of resistance from a worker’s perspective pp. 366-374

Maurizio Atzeni

Measuring the prevalence of self-managing teams: taking account of defining characteristics pp. 375-385

Jurriaan J. Nijholt and Jos Benders

Book Review Essay: Re-Working Studs Terkel pp. 386-390

Leon Fink

Joint review: Ruth Simpson Men in Caring Occupations: Doing Gender Differently Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, £50.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780230574069), 193 pp. Harriet Bradley and Geraldine Healy Ethnicity and Gender at Work: Inequalities, Careers and Employment Relations Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, £55.00 hbk (ISBN: 9781403991751), 251 pp pp. 391-393

Jacqueline H. Watts

Book Review: Paul Adler (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical Foundations Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, £85.00 hbk, (ISBN: 9780199535231) 679 pp pp. 394-395

Sharon Bolton

Book Review: Peter Fleming Authenticity and the Cultural Politics of Work: New Forms of Informal Control Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, (ISBN: 9780199547159), 224 pp pp. 395-397

Roland Paulsen

Book Review: Alan McKinlay and Chris Smith (eds) Creative Labour: Working in the Creative Industries Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, £26.99 pbk (ISBN: 9780230222007), xi + 270 pp pp. 397-399

Paul Brook

Book Review: Patrick Reedy The Manager’s Tale: Stories of Managerial Identity Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, £55.00 hbk, no price stated pbk, (ISBN: 9780754646648) vi + 194 pp pp. 399-400

John Chandler

Book Review: D. Hugh Whittaker Comparative Entrepreneurship: The UK, Japan, and the Shadow of Silicon Valley Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, £45.00 hbk, no price stated pbk, (ISBN: 9780199563661), ix + 209 pp pp. 400-402

Aleksandra Pawlik

Book Review: Casper van Ewijk and Michiel van Leuvensteijn (eds) Homeownership and the Labour Market in Europe Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, £55.00 hbk (ISBN 9780199543946), 255 pp pp. 402-404

Pierre Walthery

Book Review: Richard Croucher and Elizabeth Cotton Global Unions, Global Business: Global Union Federations and International Business London: Middlesex University Press, 2009, £30.00 hbk, no price stated pbk (ISBN: 9781904750628), 220 pp pp. 404-405

Steve Belzak

Books Received pp. 406-408

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Volume 24, issue 1, 2010

Class and employment pp. 9-26

Rosemary Crompton

Parenthood, policy and work-family time in Australia 1992—2006 pp. 27-45

Lyn Craig, Killian Mullan and Megan Blaxland

Not the right job, but a secure one pp. 47-64

Luis Ortiz

Rethinking ‘mobile work’: boundaries of space, time and social relation in the working lives of mobile hairstylists pp. 65-84

Rachel Lara Cohen

Giving older workers a voice: constraints on the employment of older people in the North West of England pp. 85-103

Lorna Porcellato, Fiona Carmichael, Claire Hulme, Barbara Ingham and Arvin Prashar

Social origin and the risks of disadvantage in Denmark and Norway: the early life course of young adults pp. 105-125

Øyvind Nicolay Wiborg and Rasmus Juul Møberg

Labour, organisational rescaling and the politics of production: union renewal in the privatised rail industry pp. 127-144

Andrew Cumbers, Danny MacKinnon and Jon Shaw

Labour market or labour movement? The union density bias as barrier to labour renewal pp. 145-156

Richard Sullivan

Organising for what?: Where is the debate on the politics of organising? pp. 157-168

Melanie Simms and Jane Holgate

Books Received pp. 189-191

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