Work, Employment & Society

1987 - 2025

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Volume 21, issue 4, 2007

In Memorium: Richard Kemp Brown pp. 613-614

Ian Roberts

In Memorium: Richard Brown pp. 615-616

Huw Beynon

Worker voice in the context of the re-regulation of employment: employer tactics and statutory union recognition in the UK pp. 617-634

Robert Perrett

Gambling partners? The risky outcomes of workplace partnerships pp. 635-652

Jean Jenkins

Labour process and decision-making in factories under workers' self-management: empirical evidence from Argentina pp. 653-671

Maurizio Atzeni and Pablo Ghigliani

Implications of family-friendly policies for organizational culture: findings from two case studies pp. 673-691

Samantha Callan

Dutch workers and time pressure: household and workplace characteristics pp. 693-711

Tanja van der Lippe

Reorienting companies' hiring behaviour: an innovative `back-to-work' method in France pp. 713-730

Marie Salognon

For better or worse? Workplace changes and the health and well-being of Norwegian workers pp. 731-750

Ståle Østhus

Sociologists and `the Japanese model': a passing enthusiasm? pp. 751-771

Kevin McCormick

The fatal flaws of diversity and the business case for ethnic minorities pp. 773-784

Mike Noon

A new labour aristocracy? Aesthetic labour and routine interactive service pp. 785-798

Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson

Review Essay: Digging the grave of apartheid: the history of black mineworkers in South Africa pp. 799-805

Jason Heyes

Book Review: Richenda Gambles, Suzan Lewis and Rhona Rapoport The Myth of Work—Life Balance:The Challenge of Our Time for Men,Women and Societies Chichester: John Wiley, 2006, no price stated hbk, no price stated pbk xxii+114 pp. ISBN: 0—470—09461—3 pp. 807-808

Melanie Shearn

Book Review: Prodromos Panayiotopoulos Immigrant Enterprise in Europe and the USA London: Routledge, 2006, hbk, xvi + 264 pp. ISBN: 10: 0—415—35371—8 pp. 808-810

Maria Psoinos

Book Review: D. Byrne Social Exclusion Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2005, 2nd Edition, £20.99 pbk, 204 pp. ISBN: 0—335215947 pp. 810-812

Colin Lindsay

Book Review: Stephen Edgell The Sociology of Work: Continuity and Change in Paid and Unpaid Work London: Sage, 2006, £20.99 pbk ISBN—07619—4853—8, £. 65.00 hbk ISBN—07619—4853—8), xii + 344 pp pp. 812-814

Valentina Cuzzocrea

Book Review: W.K. Roche and J.F. Geary Partnership at Work: The Quest for Radical Organizational Change Basingstoke: Routledge, 2006, £65 hbk, no price stated pbk 292 pp. ISBN: 0—415—30434—2 pp. 814-815

Krista Bondy

Book Review: Dan Coffey The Myth of Japanese Efficiency:The Car Industry in a Globalising Age Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, £53.96 hbk ISBN: 13—978—1—84542—041—3— 202 pp pp. 816-817

Steve Belzak

Book Review: G. Gall Sex Worker Union Organising Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, £55.00 hbk, no price stated pbk, x+ 252 pp. ISBN: 1—4039—4925—5 pp. 817-819

Rachel Aldred

Book Review: S.M. Collins and Lael Brainard (eds) Offshoring White-Collar Work Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2006, price not stated, pbk xxx + 490 pp. ISBN: 0—8157—1284—7) pp. 819-821

Leo McCann

Book Review: Barbara Kersley, Carmen Alpin, John Forth, Alex Bryson, Helen Bewley, Gill Dix and Sarah Oxenbridge Inside the Workplace: Findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey Basingstoke: Routledge, 2006, £80.00 hbk, xviii + 392 pp. ISBN: 0—415—3781 pp. 821-822

Wendy Olsen

Book Review: Suzanne E.Tallichet Daughters of the Mountain: Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006, no price stated hbk, no price stated pbk, xii + 212pp. ISBN: 0—271—02904—8 pp. 822-824

Frank Bonner

Books Received pp. 825-827

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Volume 21, issue 3, 2007

Does training trigger turnover - or not? pp. 397-416

Inge Sieben

Discrimination, labour markets and the labour market prospects of older workers: what can a legal case teach us? pp. 417-437

Sally A. Weller

Re-embedding the ethnic business agenda pp. 439-457

Trevor Jones and Monder Ram

Partnership consultation and employer domination in two British life and pensions firms pp. 459-477

Peter Samuel

Constructing habitus: the negotiation of moral encounters at Telekom pp. 479-496

Joe O'Mahoney

Bringing Gramsci back in: labor control in Italy's new temporary help industry pp. 497-515

Francesca Degiuli and Christopher Kollmeyer

Employment insecurity and social theory: the power of nightmares pp. 517-535

Ralph Fevre

The tyranny of corporate slenderness: `corporate anorexia' as a metaphor for our age pp. 537-549

Melissa Tyler and Adrian Wilkinson

Pushing the envelope: the `informalization' of labour in post-communist new EU member states pp. 551-564

Charles Woolfson

Union organizing: a response to Carter pp. 565-576

Simon de Turberville

Service work, social theory, and collectivism: a reply to Brook pp. 577-588

Marek Korczynski

Book Review: Luis Enrique Alonso and Miguel Martínez Lucio (eds) Employment Relations in a Changing Society: Assessing the Post-Fordist Paradigm Bakingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, £58 hbk, xiii + 232 pp. ISBN: 0-333-97037-3 pp. 589-590

Carlos Jesús Fernández Rodríguez

Book Review: Shaun Wilson The Struggle Over Work: The `End of Work' and Employment Options for Post-Industrial Societies. London: Routledge, 2004,£75 pbk, xvi + 228 pp. ISBN: 0-415-30550-0 pp. 591-592

Carlos de Castro

Book Review: I. Regalia (ed.) Regulating New Forms of Employment: Local Experiments in Europe. London: Routledge, 2006, £65.00 hbk, no price stated pbk, xiv + 292 pp. ISBN: 0-415-36056-0 pp. 592-594

Steven Martin

Book Review: E. Kahveci and T. Nichols The Other Car Workers: Work, Organization and Technology in the Maritime Car Carrier Industry Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, no price stated hbk, no price stated pbk, xv + 214 pp. ISBN: 1-4039-4191-2 pp. 594-595

Simon Breeze

Book Review: J. Kenway, E. Bullen and J. Fahey, with S. Robb Haunting the Knowledge Economy Oxford: Routledge, 2006, no stated price, xii + 150 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-37067-7 pp. 596-597

Rachel Aldred

Book Review: P.A.J. Waddington, Doug Badger and Ray Bull. The Violent Workplace Uffculme: Willan Publishing, 2006, £25.00 hbk, xii + 204 pp. ISBN: 1-84392-168-5 pp. 597-599

Vaughan Ellis

Book Review: Lotte Bailyn Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives (2nd Edition) New York: Cornell University Press, 2006, no price stated hbk, no price stated pbk, xviii + 184 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8014-8998-3 pp. 599-600

T. Alexandra Beauregard

Book Review: Richenda Gambles, Suzan Lewis and Rhona Rapoport The Myth of Work-Life Balance: The Challenge of Our Time for Men, Women and Societies Chichester: John Wiley, 2006, no price stated hbk, no price stated pbk xxii + 114 pp. (ISBN: 0 470 09461 3) pp. 601-602

Melanie Shearn

Books Received pp. 603-606

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Volume 21, issue 2, 2007

Grooving to the same tunes? pp. 189-208

Alan Felstead, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson, Konstantinos Kakavelakis and Lorna Unwin

The concept of occupational community revisited: analytical and managerial implications in face-to-face service occupations pp. 209-226

Peter Sandiford and Diane Seymour

So much to do, so little time pp. 227-246

Selina McCoy and Emer Smyth

Working space: why incorporating the geographical is central to theorizing work and employment practices pp. 247-264

Andrew Herod, Al Rainnie and Susan McGrath-Champ

Thinking geographically about work, employment and society pp. 265-276

Kevin Ward

Recruitment processes and labour mobility: the construction industry in Europe pp. 277-298

Ivana Fellini, Anna Ferro and Giovanna Fullin

Porn, pride and pessimism: experiences of women working in professional construction roles pp. 299-316

Jacqueline H. Watts

Conceptualizing breadwinning work pp. 317-336

Tracey Warren

Why a citizens' basic income? A question of gender equality or gender bias pp. 337-348

Ailsa McKay

Reflections on the call centre — a reply to Glucksmann pp. 349-362

Phil Taylor and Peter Bain

Customer oriented militants? A critique of the `customer oriented bureaucracy' theory on front-line service worker collectivism pp. 363-374

Paul Brook

Books Received pp. 387-389

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Volume 21, issue 1, 2007

The rhetoric of the consumer and customer control in China pp. 7-25

Jos Gamble

Putting transnational labour process in its place pp. 27-45

Ngai Pun and Chris Smith

Husband's career first pp. 47-65

Fang Lee Cooke

Legal obligation or personal lottery? pp. 67-84

Deborah Foster

Work restructuring and changing craft identity pp. 85-101

Susan Sayce, Peter Ackers and Anne-Marie Greene

Employee experience of aesthetic labour in retail and hospitality pp. 103-120

Chris Warhurst and Dennis Nickson

Knowledge workers: what keeps them committed; what turns them away pp. 121-141

John Benson and Michelle Brown

Gender, employment and social class pp. 143-155

Norman Bonney

Book Review: Agency and Change pp. 157-158

Robert Wapshott

Book Review: Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy pp. 159-160

Ayo A. Mansaray

Book Review: Demanding Work pp. 160-162

Malcolm Brynin

Book Review: European Integration and Industrial Relations pp. 162-163

Andrew R. Timming

Book Review: Trade Unions pp. 163-165

Peter Prowse

Book Review: Flexible Working and Organizational Change pp. 165-167

Jennifer Tomlinson

Book Review: The Blackwell Companion to Organizations pp. 167-169

Leo McCann

Book Review: The Market for Virtue pp. 169-170

Lisbeth Segerlund

Book Review: Markets of Dispossession pp. 171-172

Joseph O'Mahoney

Book Review: Professional Work pp. 172-174

Allan Sutherland

Book Review: Working in the Service Sector pp. 174-176

Simon Breeze

Book Review: Sociological Perspectives on Labor Markets pp. 176-177

Stephen J. Perkins

Books Received pp. 179-182

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