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Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2006.00491.x
Subject(s) - schools of economic thought , sociology , economic history , history , economics , neoclassical economics
Books reviewed: How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, The United States, and Japan by Kathleen Thelen. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, xv + 336 pp., ISBN 0 521 54674 5, £18.99.
Agents of Change: Crossing the Post‐industrial Divide by Charles Heckscher, Michael Maccoby, Rafael Ramírez and Pierre‐Eric Tixier. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003, ix + 237 pp., ISBN 0 19 926175 X, £22.50, paper.
Reviewed by D avid M arsden
London School of EconomicsThe Global Evolution of Industrial Relations: Events, Ideas, and the IIRA by Bruce E. Kaufman. International Labour Office, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004, xxv + 720 pp., ISBN 92‐2‐114153‐5, $74.95.
Reviewed by S anford M. J acoby
University of California Los AngelesTrade Unions: Resurgence or Demise? edited by Susan Fernie and David Metcalf. Routledge, London, 2005, xvii + 268 pp., ISBN 0 415 28412 0, £21.99, paper.
Reviewed by J ohn P encavel
Department of Economics, Stanford UniversityStrategic Unionism and Partnership: Boxing or Dancing? edited by Tony Huzzard, Denis Gregory and Regan Scott. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, xxiii + 362 pp., ISBN 1 1403917566, £55.00.
Reviewed by M iguel M artinez L ucio
Bradford University School of ManagementPay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 2004, xii + 278 pp., ISBN 0‐674‐01665‐3, £16.95.
Reviewed by S imon D eakin
Centre for Business Research, University of CambridgeThe Economics of Affirmative Action edited by Harry J. Holzer and David Neumark. An Elgar Reference Collection, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2004, xxxii + 688 pp., ISBN 1 84376 117 3, £175.00.
Reviewed by K aren M umford
University of YorkWelfare for the Unemployed in Britain and Germany: Who Benefits? by Frances McGinnity. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, 2004, x + 228 pp., ISBN 1 84376 220 X, £55.00.
Reviewed by M alcolm S awyer
University of LeedsThe Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy by Philip Brown and Anthony Hesketh with Sarah Williams. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, x + 278 pp., ISBN 0 19 926954 8, £18.00, paper.
Reviewed by P hoebe M oore
University of Manchester