Work, Employment & Society

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Volume 22, issue 4, 2008

Knowledge and the discourse of labour process transformation: nurses and the case of NHS Direct for England pp. 581-599

Chris Smith, Raffaella Valsecchi, Frank Mueller and Jonathan Gabe

`Doing things right', or `doing the right things'? Call centre migrations and dimensions of knowledge pp. 601-613

Diane van den Broek

The next division of labour: work skills in Australian and Indian call centres pp. 615-634

Bob Russell and Mohan Thite

Have stethoscope, will travel: contingent employment among physician health care providers in the United States pp. 635-654

Angelo A. Alonzo and Arthur B. Simon

Preference or constraint? Part-time workers' transitions in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom pp. 655-674

Vanessa Gash

Idealism and the applied relevance of research on employee participation pp. 675-693

Martin Beirne

Role redesign in the National Health Service pp. 695-712

Julie Prowse and Peter Prowse

Too much pressure? Retailer power and occupational health and safety in the food processing industry pp. 713-730

Caroline Lloyd and Susan James

The nightmare of temporary work: a comment on Fevre pp. 731-736

Hazel Conley

“Clawing back timeâ€: expansive working time and implications for work—life outcomes in Australian workers pp. 737-748

Philippa Williams, Barbara Pocock and Natalie Skinner

Joint Review: R.W. Kolba Corporate Retirement Security: Social and Ethical Issues Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, £40.00 hbk (ISBN: 978—1405150—484), 201 pp. H. Pemberton, P. Thane and N.Whiteside Britain's Pensions Crisis: History and Policy Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, £14.99 pbk (ISBN: 978—0197263—853), 280 pp pp. 749-751

Jo Grady

Book Review: Jean-Pierre Durand The Invisible Chain: Constraints and Opportunities in the New World of Employment Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, £55.00 hbk (ISBN: 9—780230—013636), 256 pp pp. 753-755

Carol Wolkowitz

Book Review: Charles N. Darrah, James M. Freeman and J.A. English-Lueck Busier than ever! Why American Families Can't Slow Down Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007, no price stated hbk, $19.95 pbk, (ISBN: 978—0—8047—5492—7), 288 pp pp. 755-756

Valentina Cuzzocrea

Book Review: Drew Whitelegg Working the Skies: The Fast-Paced, Disorienting World of the Flight Attendant New York: NewYork University Press, 2007, $70 hbk, $20 pbk (ISBN: 978—0—8147—9408—1), xi + 290 pp pp. 756-758

Randy Hodson

Book Review: P. Pangsapa Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand. New York: Cornell University Press, 2007, £27.95 hbk, £9.50 pbk (ISBN: 978—0—8014—7376—0), 232 pp pp. 758-760

Maurizio Atzeni

Book Review: Pierre Cahuc and André Zylberberg The Natural Survival of Work: Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Growing Economy Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006, £17.95 hbk, (ISBN: 0—262—03357—7) 165 pp pp. 760-761

Jacqueline H. Watts

Books received pp. 763-766

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Volume 22, issue 3, 2008

Working without commitments: precarious employment and health pp. 387-406

Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke and Alice de Wolff

Non-regular employment in Japan: continued and renewed dualities pp. 407-425

Arjan B. Keizer

Forms of capital, mixed embeddedness and Somali enterprise pp. 427-446

Monder Ram, Nicholas Theodorakopoulos and Trevor Jones

An exploration of small firm psychological contracts pp. 447-465

Carol Atkinson

Guanxi networks and job searches in China's emerging labour market: a qualitative investigation pp. 467-484

Xianbi Huang

Mismatching of persons and jobs in the Netherlands: consequences for the returns to mobility pp. 485-506

Maurice Gesthuizen and Jaco Dagevos

Highly educated immigrants in the Norwegian labour market: permanent disadvantage? pp. 507-526

Idunn Brekke and Arne Mastekaasa

Care strategies among high- and low-skilled mothers: a world of difference? pp. 527-545

Maja Debacker

Time, caring labour and social policy: understanding the family time economy in contemporary families pp. 547-558

Jane Maree Maher, Jo Lindsay and Suzanne Franzway

Book Review: L. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (eds) The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, £19.00 pbk (ISBN 978—1—4051—5636—3), xi + 263 pp pp. 559-560

Glynne Williams

Book Review: P. Lewis and Ruth Simpson (eds) Gendering Emotions in Organizations Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007, £26.99 pbk (ISBN: 978—0—230—00148—0), xiii + 208 pp pp. 561-562

Frank Bonner

Book Review: Jieyu Liu Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation Oxford: Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2007, £70.00 hbk, no price stated pbk, (ISBN: 978—0—415—39211—2), xiv + 178 pp pp. 562-564

Orla McVicar

Book Review: Michael A. Witt Changing Japanese Capitalism: Societal Co-ordination and Institutional Adjustment Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, £50.00 hbk (ISBN: 10 0—521—86860—2), xiii + 221 pp pp. 564-566

Jane Nolan

Book Review: Gary Paul Green Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas: Building the High Road Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007, £45 hbk (ISBN: 978 1 84542 872 3), ix + 144 pp pp. 566-568

Ian Greer

Books Received pp. 569-572

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Volume 22, issue 2, 2008

Work, Employment and Society, 1997—2007 pp. 203-220

Helen Rainbird and Michael Rose

Labour market mobility and employment security of male employees in Europe: `trade-off' or `flexicurity'? pp. 221-242

Ruud Muffels and Ruud Luijkx

The vanishing flexible: ambition, self-realization and flexibility in the career perspectives of young Belgian adults pp. 243-262

Mark Elchardus and Wendy Smits

Gender differences in occupational wage mobility in the 1958 cohort pp. 263-280

Shirley Dex, Kelly Ward and Heather Joshi

The paradoxical processes of feminization in the professions: the case of established, aspiring and semi-professions pp. 281-299

Sharon Bolton and Daniel Muzio

Dead men working: time and space in London's (`illegal') migrant economy pp. 301-318

Ali Nobil Ahmad

Working knowledge as performance: on the practical understanding of machines pp. 319-336

Boel Berner

No more heroes? Reflections on the 20th anniversary of the miners' strike and the culture of opposition pp. 337-349

Harriet Bradley

Skill, education and credentials in the new economy: the case of information technology workers pp. 351-362

Tracey L. Adams and Erin I. Demaiter

Joint Review: Rosemary Crompton, Suzan Lewis, and Claire Lyonette (eds) Women, Men,Work and Family in Europe Basingtoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, £50.00 hbk, (ISBN: 978—1—4039—8719—8), 288 pp pp. 363-366

Natalie Sappleton

Joint Review: S. Prideaux Not so New Labour: A Sociological Critique of New Labour's Policy and Practice Bristol: Policy Press, 2005, £24.99, pbk, (ISBN: 1861344597), 170 pp pp. 366-368

Colin Lindsay

Joint Review: J. Fine Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006, $49.95 hbk, $21.95 pbk, (ISBN: 978—0—8014—7257—2), 336 pp pp. 368-370

Miguel Martínez Lucio

Joint Review: Steven C. McKay Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines Ithaca: ILR Press, 2006, £12.50 pbk (ISBN: 0 8014 8894 X), xii + 253 pp pp. 371-372

Matt Vidal

Joint Review: D. Walters and T. Nicols Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, £55.00 hbk, (ISBN 978 0 230 00194 7), xi + 177 pp pp. 373-374

Phil James

Books available for review pp. 375-377

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Volume 22, issue 1, 2008

Organizational professionalism in globalizing law firms pp. 7-25

James Faulconbridge and Daniel Muzio

Sociology contra government? The contest for the meaning of unemployment in UK policy debates pp. 27-43

Matthew Cole

Does gender trump money? Housework hours of husbands and wives in Britain pp. 45-66

Man Yee Kan

Shift work and child behavioral outcomes pp. 67-87

Wen-Jui Han

Skills and occupational attainment: a comparative study of Germany, Denmark and the UK pp. 89-108

Martina Dieckhoff

Age and labour market commitment in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden pp. 109-128

Carl Hult and Jonas Edlund

Disability employment penalties in Britain pp. 129-148

Richard Berthoud

Corruption in the post-Soviet workplace: the experiences of recent graduates in contemporary Ukraine pp. 149-166

John Round, Colin Williams and Peter Rodgers

Organizing homeworkers: the use of mapping as an organizing tool pp. 167-180

Rosaria Burchielli, Donna Buttigieg and Annie Delaney

Joint Review: Ursula Holtgrewe Flexible Menschen in flexiblen Organisationen: Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten kreativen und innovativen Handelns [Translation: Flexible People in Flexible Organizations:The Conditions of and Possibilities for Creative and Innovative Action] Berlin: Edition Sigma, 2006, 19.90 pbk, (ISBN: 3—89404—544—2) 317 pp. Ingo Matuschek, Katrin Arnold and G. Günter Voss Subjektivierte Taylorisierung: Organisation und Praxis medienvermittelter Dienstleistungsarbeit [Translation: Subjectified Taylorization: The Organization and Practice of Technology Mediated Service Work] München: Rainer Hampp Verlag, 2007, 29.80 pbk, (ISBN: 978—3—86618—105—2) 355 pp pp. 181-184

Virginia Doellgast

Book Review: Huw Beynon and Theo Nichols (eds) The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management: Fordism and Post-Fordism Volumes I and II. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2006, £285 hbk (2-volume set), xix + 992 pp. ISBN: 978—185898—948—8 pp. 185-187

Ahu Tatli

Book Review: Andreas Bieler The Struggle for a Social Europe: Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global Restructuring Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006, £55.00 hbk xvi + 254 pp. (ISBN: 0—7190—7252—2) pp. 187-188

David J. Bailey

Book Review: Simon Down Narratives of Enterprise: Crafting Entrepreneurial Self-Identity in a Small Firm Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, £45.00 pbk, vii + 144 pp. ISBN: 1—84376—767—8—160 pp. 188-190

Andrew Greenman

Book Review: Olympia Kyriakidou and Mustafa F. Ozbilgin (eds) Relational Perspectives in Organizational Studies: A Research Companion Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, no price stated, hbk, xiii + 321 pp. ISBN: 10—1—84542—125—6 pp. 190-192

Mallika Banerjee

Book Review: Mary Barrett and Marilyn J. Davidson (eds) Gender and Communication at Work Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate, 2006, £60 hbk, xv + 294 pp. ISBN: 0—7546—3840—5 pp. 192-194

Jyothsna Belliappa

Book Review: Marek Korczynski, Randy Hodson and Paul Edwards (eds) Social Theory at Work Oxford: OUP, 2006, £63.00 hbk, xiv + 502 pp. ISBN: 978—0—19—928597—6 pp. 194-195

Stuart Winchester

Book Review: L. Pettinger, J.Parry, R.Taylor and M. Glucksmann (eds) A New Sociology of Work? London: Blackwell, 2005, no price stated, pbk, 247 pp. ISBN: 1—4051—3903—X pp. 195-197

Grainne Ketelaar

Books Received pp. 198-200

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