{"title":"T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theatre Owners’ Booking Association in Jazz-Age America by Michelle R. Scott, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Chicago and Springfield, 2023, xvi + 264 pages, ISBN 978-0-252-08698-4, paper, US$28.00","authors":"Braham Dabscheck","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12755","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12755","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 3","pages":"757-759"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48300079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy Amazon and the Power of Organization by Sarrah Kassem (Author). Bristol University Press, 28 Feb 2023, 222 pp., ISBN: 978–1529226546 (hardback), 978–1529226560 (Epub). £85 hardback, £27.99 Ebook","authors":"Prakriti Dasgupta","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12756","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12756","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 3","pages":"760-761"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44097906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cambridge Handbook of Labour in Competition Law Edited by Sanjukta Paul, Shae McCrystal and Ewan McGaughey, Cambridge University Press, 2022","authors":"Ou Lin","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12754","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 3","pages":"755-756"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45073269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do mass layoffs affect voting behaviour? Evidence from the UK","authors":"Nils Braakmann, Wessel N. Vermeulen","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12749","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12749","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How bad are mass layoffs politically? We study this question across both regional and individual-level datasets. Using a difference-in-difference framework with differential timing on constituency-level data for the UK, we find no evidence that mass layoff announcements negatively affect incumbents – either locally or nationally – in the General Elections 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019. Using individual data on party preferences, we demonstrate that our results are not an artefact of the UK majority voting system and associated tactical voting. We also find no evidence that the null results can be explained by increased outmigration of affected individuals or changes of candidates by political parties. We find evidence that economic expectations are not strongly affected by mass layoffs, which, although a surprising finding by itself, might help to explain the absence of an effect on political outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 4","pages":"922-950"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12749","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49448511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutional support for new work roles: The case of care coordinators in the United States and England","authors":"Nick Krachler","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12748","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12748","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on comparative employment relations literature, this article explores how employment relations (ER) institutions support the ‘care coordinator’, a new role tasked with aiding the exchange of information between health and social services in the United States and the UK. Findings show that in both countries, multi-employer collective bargaining facilitated this role by providing good working conditions and a stable work environment; additionally, the new role performed better in England due to the broader scope of bargaining and supportive management practices. The article advances a comparative institutional perspective on the creation of new tasks focused on sub-national (sectoral and regional) ER.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 4","pages":"951-974"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12748","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49280269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Labour market impacts of occupational licensing and delicensing: New evidence from China","authors":"Mengjie Lyu, Tingting Zhang, Hua Ye","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12747","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12747","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examined the recent occupational regulation changes in China and their labour market impacts. Using data from the China Labor-Force Dynamic Survey from 2014 to 2018, we found an earning premium of approximately 10 per cent, as well as more employment-based benefits, for those with an occupational license compared to those without one. Licensed workers reported higher skill-job task match than unlicensed workers. Our data cover the period of occupational regulation reform in China, when 70 per cent of occupations previously licensed or certified were deregulated. Over this period, the licensing status remained associated with positive earning and employment benefits premiums, and better skill-job task match at the labour market level. However, delicensing led to a distributional shift in the earning dispersion, especially at the bottom of the earning distribution; earning premiums rose sharply for the 10th to 30th percentiles. Workers directly affected by the licensing reform reported a significant decrease in employment benefits and in subjective job quality measures (i.e. skill-job task match and voice at work) after delicensing, relative to never-licensed workers. We suggest that non-wage compensation is lost in the short term because the signal of competency is no longer valued by employers after delicensing.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 4","pages":"895-921"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12747","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42703257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anthony Doucouliagos, Hristos Doucouliagos, T. D. Stanley
{"title":"Power and bias in industrial relations research","authors":"Anthony Doucouliagos, Hristos Doucouliagos, T. D. Stanley","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12746","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12746","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We survey 20,439 estimates from 64 distinct research areas to assess power, bias and statistical significance in industrial relations research. The average estimate published in industrial relations research lacks adequate power; average power is 33 per cent, and median power is only 14 per cent, much lower than the conventional 80 per cent standard. Low power means that industrial relations researchers will find it more difficult to detect important associations pertaining to workplace relations. Low power also leads to exaggerated research findings. We find substantial publication bias in industrial relations research, though nearly half of the research areas have little or no bias.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 1","pages":"3-27"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44833774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fabio Berton, Anna Carreri, Francesco Devicienti, Andrea Ricci
{"title":"The collective voice of unions and workplace training in Italy: New insights from mixed methods","authors":"Fabio Berton, Anna Carreri, Francesco Devicienti, Andrea Ricci","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12745","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12745","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using a three-phase approach that combines quantitative (pooled OLS, fixed effects and IV) with qualitative (semi-structured interviews) analyses, we find that in Italy, workplace unions are more likely to enhance training when they sign a firm-level agreement and when they can get access to external funds for financing. We also identify three channels: what we call a ‘maturation effect’, double-track communication and watch-dog function. We argue that these results are consistent with the idea that the impact of workplace unions on training depends on the empowerment of its collective voice within an institutional framework that does not fit either of the standard models provided by collective and liberal market economies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"61 3","pages":"595-622"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12745","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46656101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All about power after all? A multi-level analysis of employers’ organization membership in Europe","authors":"Alex Lehr, Giedo Jansen, Bernd Brandl","doi":"10.1111/bjir.12744","DOIUrl":"10.1111/bjir.12744","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Employers’ organizations (EOs) are the voice of business interests in social partnership and socio-economic policy making. Their legitimacy depends on the willingness of employers to join them as members. We examine the role of two types of power that EOs confer onto their members as drivers of EO membership: countervailing power against labour and organizational power. By analysing large-scale micro-level data on more than 30,000 business establishments across 27 EU countries in 2013 and 2019, we find that at the micro-level, company size, workplace unionization and the presence of trade unions and works councils are positively associated with membership, as is union density at the macro-level. These findings suggest that, in contrast to contemporary arguments in the EO literature, countering the collective power of labour remains an important motivation for EO membership. The positive impact of company size also suggests that organizational power, that is the ability to influence public policies and collective agreements through EOs, dominates the services provided by EOs to their members as a selective incentive for EO membership. Further tests of this argument, however, yield inconclusive results.</p>","PeriodicalId":47846,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Industrial Relations","volume":"62 2","pages":"233-261"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.12744","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47132108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}