Work, Employment & Society

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Volume 23, issue 4, 2009

Whose skill is it anyway? pp. 597-615

Irena Grugulis and Steven Vincent

‘Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing’ pp. 617-634

Caroline Lloyd and Jonathan Payne

Partner effects on labour market participation and job level: opposing mechanisms pp. 635-654

Ellen Verbakel and Paul M. de Graaf

‘No matter what I did I would still end up in the same position’ pp. 655-671

Sian Moore

The mobile phone, perpetual contact and time pressure pp. 673-691

Michael Bittman, Judith E. Brown and Judy Wajcman

Meanings and dilemmas in community unionism pp. 693-710

Miguel Martínez Lucio and Robert Perrett

Regulatory enforcement of labour standards in an outsourcing globalized industry pp. 711-726

Michael Bloor and Helen Sampson

Redundancy as a critical life event pp. 727-745

Jean Gardiner, Mark Stuart, Robert MacKenzie, Chris Forde, Ian Greenwood and Rob Perrett

Workplace incivilities: the role of interest conflicts, social closure and organizational chaos pp. 747-773

Vincent J. Roscigno, Randy Hodson and Steven H. Lopez

Owners and managers pp. 775-786

Ian Clark

Autonomy, control and job advancement pp. 787-796

Linda McKie, Gill Hogg, Laura Airey, Kathryn Backett-Milburn and Zoe Rew

Joint Review: Helma Lutz (ed.) Migration and Domestic Work: A European Perspective on a Global Theme Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, £55.00, (ISBN: 978-0-7546-4790-4), 224pp. Toby Shelley Exploited: Migrant Labour in the New Global Economy London: Zed Books, 2007, £50.00 hbk, £14.99 pbk, (ISBN: 978-1-8427-7785-24), 192pp pp. 797-800

Zinovijus Ciupijus

Book Review: Jacqueline Scott, Shirley Dex and Heather Joshi (eds) Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008, £79.95 hbk (ISBN: 978-1-8472-0249-9), xv + 375 pp pp. 801-802

Malcolm Brynin

Book Review: Miriam Glucksmann (aka R. Cavendish) Women on the Line Oxford: Routledge, 2009, £16.99 pbk (ISBN: 978-0-4154-7642-3), x1 + 172 pp pp. 802-804

Andrew Smith

Book Review: Tim Strangleman and Tracey Warren Work and Society: Sociological Approaches,Themes and Methods Oxford: Routledge, 2008, £65 hbk, £19.99 pbk, (ISBN: 978-0-4153-3648-2), x + 344 pp pp. 804-805

Fabio Bolzonaro

Book Review: Catherine Theodosius Emotional Labour in Health Care:The Unmanaged Heart of Nursing London: Routledge, 2008, £76.99 hbk, no price stated pbk (978-0-415-40953-7), xiv + 232 pp pp. 805-807

Kevin Walby

Book Review: Anne Martin-Matthews and Judith E. Phillips (eds) Aging and Caring at the Intersection of Work and Home Life: Blurring the Boundaries Basingstoke: Taylor and Francis, 2008, £45.00 hbk, (ISBN 978-0-8058-5917-1) xli + 270 pp pp. 807-808

Agnieszka Piasna

Book Review: Paul Boreham, Rachel Parker, Paul Thompson and Richard Hall New Technology @ Work Basingstoke: Taylor and Francis, 2008, no price stated hbk, £24.99 pbk, (ISBN: 978-0-4152-6897-4) xiii + 224 pp pp. 809-810

Vaughan Ellis

Book Review: Donald Hislop (ed.) Mobility and Technology in the Workplace London, New York: Routledge, 2008, no price stated hbk (ISBN 978-0-4154-4346-3), xii + 244 pp pp. 810-812

Aleksandra Pawlik

Book Review: Saniye Dedeoglu Women Workers in Turkey: Global Industrial Production in Istanbul London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2008, no price stated, (ISBN: 978-1845-11478-7) xii + 215 pp pp. 812-814

Utku Balaban

Book Review: J.A. Piqueras and V. Sanz Rozalén (eds) A Social History of Spanish Labour: New Perspectives on Class, Politics, and Gender Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007, £45.00 hbk (ISBN: 978-1-8454-5296-4), vi + 330 pp pp. 814-815

Chris Grocott

Book Review: Leighton S. James The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales 1890—1926. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008, £60.00 hbk (ISBN: 978-0-7190-7497-4), x + 226 pp pp. 815-817

Raf Vanderstraeten

Books available for review pp. 819-822

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Volume 23, issue 3, 2009

Medicalization of unemployment: individualizing social issues as personal problems in the Swedish welfare state pp. 405-421

Mikael Holmqvist

The consequences of caring: skills, regulation and reward among early years workers pp. 422-441

Patricia Findlay, Jeanette Findlay and Robert Stewart

Public sector trade unionism in the UK pp. 442-459

Gemma Edwards

Networks of aestheticization: the architecture, artefacts and embodiment of hairdressing salons pp. 460-476

Shalene Chugh and Philip Hancock

‘Switch on’: sensory work in the infantry pp. 477-493

John Hockey

‘Technical, but not very….’: constructing gendered identities in IT-related employment pp. 494-511

Yvonne Guerrier, Christina Evans, Judith Glover and Cornelia Wilson

Leaders of men: women ‘managing’ in construction pp. 512-530

Jacqueline H. Watts

In critical defence of ‘emotional labour’ pp. 531-548

Paul Brook

Getting to the heart of the emotional labour process: a reply to Brook pp. 549-560

Sharon C. Bolton

WERS the validity? a critique of the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey of employees pp. 561-570

Andrew R. Timming

Joint Review: Alison Pullen, Nic Beech, and David Sims Exploring Identity: concepts and Methods Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, £26.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9781403989833) 368 pp. Lin Lerpold, Davide Ravasi, Johan van Rekom and Guillaume Soenen (eds) Organizational Identity in Practice Oxford: Routledge, 2007, £85.00 hbk, £27.99 pbk, (ISBN: 978041539840) 4264 pp pp. 571-573

William C. Murray

Book Review: Carol Wolkowitz Bodies at Work London: SAGE Publications, 2006, £70.00 hbk, £21.99 pbk, (ISBN: 9780761960645), ix + 224 pp pp. 574-575

Kate Purcell

Book Review: Naila Kabeer Mainstreaming gender in social protection for the informal economy London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2008, (ISBN: 978—0-85092—840—2), xviii + 411 pp pp. 576-577

Laia Castelló

Book Review: Dennis Briscoe, Randall Schuler and Lisbeth Claus International Human Resource Management: policies and Practices for Multinational Enterprises, 3rd Edition London: Routledge, 2008, £29.99 pbk (ISBN: 9780415773515), xix + 397 pp pp. 577-579

Nadezhda Gotcheva

Book Reviews: Joseph S. Lee (ed.) The Labour Market and Economic Development of Taiwan Cheltenham: Elgar, 2007, £69.95 hbk, (ISBN: 9781847203427) xxiii + 329 pp pp. 579-580

Wei Huang

Book Review: Gerry Mooney and Alex Law (eds) New Labour/hard labour? Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry The Policy Press, Bristol, 2007, £22.99 pbk, 312 pp. ISBN: 978-1861348333 pp. 580-582

Paul Stewart

Book Review: Gary Daniels and John McIlroy (eds) Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions under New Labour Oxford: Routledge, 2009, £75.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780415426633), xix + 380 pp pp. 582-585

Ralph Darlington

Book Review: Craig Phelan (ed.) Trade Union Revitalization: Trends and Prospects in 34 Countries Bern: Peter Lang, 2007, £50.00 pbk (ISBN: 9783039110094), 582 pp pp. 585-587

Peter Prowse

Book Review: Carl Rhodes and Robert Westwood Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture Oxford: Routledge, 2008, £70 hbk (ISBN: 9780415359894), viii + 236 pp pp. 587-588

Hsiao-Hui Tai

Books Received pp. 589-591

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Volume 23, issue 2, 2009

Trade unions learning representatives: progressing partnership? pp. 213-230

Catherine Cassell and Bill Lee

Partnership agreement adoption and survival in the British private and public sectors pp. 231-248

Nicolas Bacon and Peter Samuel

The actuary as fallen hero: on the reform of a profession pp. 249-266

David Collins, Ian Dewing and Peter Russell

Professional competition and modernizing the clinical workforce in the NHS pp. 267-284

Graeme Currie, Rachael Finn and Graham Martin

WorkChoices, ImageChoices and the marketing of new industrial relations legislation pp. 285-304

Janis Bailey, Keith Townsend and Edwina Luck

Entrepreneurship and institution-building in the case of childminding pp. 305-322

Ian Greener

The knowledge economy and the restructuring of employment: the case of consultants pp. 323-341

Rory Donnelly

The vulnerable worker in Britain and problems at work pp. 343-362

Anna Pollert and Andy Charlwood

The outsourcing of social care in Britain: what does it mean for voluntary sector workers? pp. 363-375

Ian Cunningham and Philip James

Joint Review: Ulrike Muehlberger Dependent Self-Employment: Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-Employment Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, £55.00 hbk, xi + 217 pp., 9780230515499. Stella Vettori The Employment Contract and the Changed World of Work Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, £99.95 hbk, ix + 210 pp., 9780754647546 pp. 377-380

Kevin Walby

Book Review: Patrick McGovern, Stephen Hill, Colin Mills and Michael White Market, Class and Employment Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, $45 pbk, 978 0 19 921338 2, xii + 331pp pp. 381-382

Hsiao-Hui Tai

Book Review: Chris Baldry, Peter Bain, Phil Taylor, Jeff Hyman, Dora Scholarios, Abigail Marks, Aileen Watson, Kay Gilbert, Gregor Gall and Dirk Bunzel The Meaning of Work in the New Economy Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, price not stated hbk (ISBN: 9781403934079) 277 pp pp. 382-384

Irena Grugulis

Book Review: Sangheon Lee, Deirdre McCann and Jon C. Messenger Working Time Around the World: Trends in Working Hours, Laws and Policies in a Global Comparative Perspective. London and New York: Routledge, 2007, £70.00 hbk (ISBN: 978—0-415—43937—4), xvii + 240 pp pp. 384-385

Johanna Muckenhuber

Book Review: Gay W. Seidman Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007, $26.00 hbk (ISBN: 0871547619) xvi + 176 pp pp. 385-387

David Bartram

Book Review: K. Bronfenbrenner (ed.) Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns. New York: Cornell University Press, 2007, £30.50 hbk, £11.50 pbk (ISBN: 9780801473913), 280 pp pp. 387-388

Edward Webster

Book Review: K. Dale and Gibson Burrell The Spaces of Organization and the Organization of Space: Power Identity and Materiality at Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, £28.99 pbk (ISBN: 0230572685), xvi + 328 pp pp. 389-390

Philip Hancock

Book Review: D. Muzio, S. Ackroyd, and J.F. Chanlat (eds) Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, £55.00 hbk (ISBN: 9781403998705), 272 pp pp. 390-392

Scott. A. Hurrell

Book Review: J. Bennett, B. Crewe and A. Wahidin (eds) Understanding Prison Staff Devon: Willan Publishing, 2008, no price stated hbk, $44.95 pbk (ISBN: 9781843922742), 384 pp pp. 392-394

Karen Lumsden

Book Review: Geoffrey Wood and Chris Brewster (eds) Industrial Relations in Africa Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, £60.00 hbk (ISBN: 023001366X), xiii + 264 pp pp. 394-395

Adam Rostis

Books Received pp. 397-398

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Volume 23, issue 1, 2009

On the front line pp. 7-11

Phil Taylor, Chris Warhurst, Paul Thompson and Dora Scholarios

Career plans and aspirations of recent black and minority ethnic business graduates pp. 12-29

Gill Kirton

Lack of sleep, work and the long hours culture: evidence from the UK Time Use Survey pp. 30-48

Stella Chatzitheochari and Sara Arber

Stuck in the middle with who? The class identity of knowledge workers pp. 49-65

Abigail Marks and Chris Baldry

Social reproduction as unregulated work pp. 66-83

Siobhán McGrath and James DeFilippis

When the working day is through: the end of work as identity? pp. 84-101

Michael Doherty

Identity work and the `unemployed' worker: age, disability and the lived experience of the older unemployed pp. 102-119

Kathleen Riach and Wendy Loretto

Vital conjunctures, shifting horizons: high-skilled female immigrants looking for work pp. 120-141

Anika Liversage

The rhetoric of the `good worker' versus the realities of employers' use and the experiences of migrant workers pp. 142-159

Robert MacKenzie and Chris Forde

Before the disaster: health, safety and working conditions at a plastics factory pp. 160-168

Phil Taylor and Laurence Connelly

Intermediate occupations and the conceptual and empirical limitations of the hourglass economy thesis pp. 169-180

Pauline Anderson

Review Essay: Reconfiguring gender in late modernity pp. 181-187

Marjolaine Roger

Joint Reviews: Low-skilled workers in America pp. 188-191

Christopher D. Gjesfjeld

Book Review: Christine von Oertzen The Pleasure of a Surplus Income: Part-time Work, Gender Politics and Social Change in West Germany, 1955—1969 (Translated by Selwyn, P.) Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007, £50 hbk, (ISBN 1845451791), xi + 238 pp pp. 192-193

Anna Schrö der

Book Review: Ruth Woodfield What Women Want From Work: Gender and Occupational Choice in the 21st Century Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2007, £50 hbk (ISBN: 9780230549227), ix + 250 pp pp. 194-195

Sue Child

Book Review: Ruth Simpson and Patricia Lewis Voice, Visibility and the Gendering of Organizations Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, £26.99 pbk, (ISBN: 1403990573), 112 pp pp. 195-197

Valerie Antcliff

Book Review: Paul du Gay Organizing Identity: Persons and Organizations `After Theory' London: Sage, 2007, £21.99 pbk (ISBN: 9781412900126), x + 193 pp pp. 197-199

Jana Costas

Book Review: Carolyn L. Hsu Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People are Shaping Class and Status in China London: Duke University Press, 2007, pbk (ISBN: 9780822340362), 240 pp pp. 199-200

Jane Nolan

Book Review: David Denemark, Gabrielle Meagher, Shaun Wilson, Mark Western and Timothy. Philips (eds) Australian Social Attitudes 2: Citizenship, Work and Aspirations Sydney: UNSW Press, University of New South Wales, 2007, £37.50 pbk, (ISBN: 9780868408613), 320 pp pp. 201-202

Antje Bednarek

Books Received pp. 203-206

N/a

Erratum pp. 207-207

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