BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Joel Bakan. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. 
Reviewed by S imon D eakin Carola M. Frege and John Kelly, editors. Varieties of Unionism: Strategies for Union Revitalization in a Globalizing Economy. 
Reviewed by D an C lawson Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz with Rafael Gomez and Ivan Katchanovski. The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More than Canadians do But Join Much Less. 
Reviewed by A ndy C harlwood Tony Elger and Chris Smith. Assembling Work: Remaking Factory Regimes in Japanese Multinationals in Britain. 
Reviewed by A ndy D anford Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley. United They Stood: The Story of the UK Firefighters’ Dispute 2002–2004. 
Reviewed by R alph D arlington Jeremy Waddington, Marcus Kahmann and Jürgen Hoffmann. A Comparison of the Trade Union Merger Process in Britain and Germany — Joining Forces? 
Reviewed by B erndt K eller Robert M. Fishman. Democracy's Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain. 
Reviewed by K erstin H amann Mick Marchington, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Hugh Willmott, editors Fragmenting Work: Blurring Organizational Boundaries and Disordering Hierarchies. 
Reviewed by M ary S. L ogan David Howell, editor Fighting Unemployment: The Limits of Free Market Orthodoxy. 
Reviewed by S otiria T heodoropoulou