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This article reviews the book, "Workplace Industrial Relations in Britain: The DE/PSI/SSRC Survey," by W. W. Daniel and Neil Millward.

Sur la base d'une recherche dans deux entreprises de l'industrie mécanique, l'article montre le degré de contrôle exerce par les ouvriers de production sur l'organisation et l'exécution de leur travail, malgré la reforme des relations du travail. L'analyse porte principalement sur l'interaction des facteurs techniques et sociaux pouvant expliquer ce type de régulation sociale.

This article reviews the book, "Les négociations collectives dans les secteurs public et parapublic. Expérience québécoise et regard sur l'extérieur," by Maurice Lemelin.

This article reviews the book, "The Dynamics of White Collar Unionism : A Study of Local Union Participation," by Nigel Nichloson & Gil Ursell.

This article reviews the book, "The Social Organization of Industrial Conflict: Control and Resistance in the Workplace," by P.K. Edwards & Hugh Scullion.

This article reviews the book, "Worker Participation : Sucess and Problems," by Hem C. Jain.

This article reviews the book, "TUC: The Growth of a Pressure Group 1868-1976," by Ross M. Martin.

This article reviews "Police Unionism : Power and Impact in Public-Sector Bargaining" by Hervey A. Juris and Peter Feuille.

This article reviews the book, "American Technology and the British Vehicle Industry," by Wayne Lewchuk.

This article reviews the book, "British Workplace Industrial Relations 1980-1984 : The DE/ESRC/PSI/ACAS Surveys," by Neil Millward & Mark Stevens.

The article reviews the book, "Autonomie dans le travail," by Gilbert De Terssac.

This article reviews the book, "The Challenge to Management Control," by John Storey.

This article reviews the book, "La démocratie industrielle / The Industrial Democracy," by Marcel Côté et Vasile Téga.

This article reviews the book, "Company Organization and Worker Participation," by Ian B. Knight. This article reviews the book, "Boards of Directors in British Industry," by Christopher Brookes.

L'étude porte sur les facteurs d'ordre structurel et institutionnel pouvant expliquer le plafonnement de la densité syndicale. L'analyse insiste particulièrement sur les facteurs associes à la structure des activités économiques et de l'emploi et sur certaines caractéristiques du régime de relations du travail.

The extent and the scope of organizational and technological innovations currently being introduced by many firms present important challenges of adjustment for the union movement. While working to renew their own collective strength, unions must also define their position with regard to new forms of work organization. Current mutations in identities both at work and beyond raise pressing questions about the relationship between the union and its members, particularly the capacity of unions to represent increasingly diverse groups of workers. The question of the link between identity at work and social cohesion will probably be exacerbated in the coming years because the current changes in the organization of work and the management of production are likely to have increasingly significant repercussions on the post-war institutional compromise in the workplace.

Au-delà du comportement individuel, l'absence s'inscrit dans une dynamique sociale. À partir d'une étude de terrain dans une grande entreprise québécoise, cet article associe le phénomène des absences brèves et autorisées à un modèle de contrôle du travail caractérisé par l'autonomie ouvrière et une relation de coopération sur le plancher de production. La gestion des absences était l'une des composantes de la relation d'échange entre le superviseur et les subordonnés, ce qui permettait d'atténuer les effets de l'absence et d'évacuer toute dimension conflictuelle. De façon générale, l'absence de courte durée représentait toujours une source d'incertitude, mais son effet sur la productivité était très faible.

The article examines the divergent patterns of labor flexibility in 2 Canadian power transformer plants owned by the same company and producing similar products with identical technologies. The case study results are used to point to 3 over-simplifications in the flexibility debate: 1. the claim that "numerical" and "functional" flexibility are incompatible, 2. the argument that North American management relies more heavily on external flexibility than on flexibility, and 3. the widespread contention that the traditional collective agreement is the chief barrier to achieving a more flexible organization of production in North America.

Contents: Introduction : the workplace and labor regulation in comparative perspective / P.K. Edwards, Jacques Bélanger, and Larry Haiven -- A comparison of national regimes of labor regulation and the problem of the workplace / P.K. Edwards -- Job control under different labor relations regimes : a comparison of Canada and Great Britain / Jacques Bélanger -- Workplace discipline in international comparative perspective / Larry Haiven -- Shopfloor relations at U.S. and Canadian plants of an automotive parts supplier, 1936-1988 / Stephen Herzenberg; Bargaining regimes and the social reorganization of production : the case of General Motors in Austria and Germany / Karen Shire -- New technology and the process of labor regulation : an international perspective / Anthony E. Smith -- Conflict and compliance : the workplace politics of a disk-drive factory in Singapore / Chung Yuen Kay -- The new international division of labor and its impact on unions : a case study of high-tech Mexican export production / Harley Shaiken -- Patterns of workplace relations in the global corporation : toward convergence? / Stephen Frenkel -- Conclusion : globalization, national systems, and the future of workplace industrial relations / Larry Haiven, P.K. Edwards, and Jacques Bélanger; Introduction : the workplace and labor regulation in comparative perspective / P.K. Edwards, Jacques Belanger, and Larry Haiven -- A comparison of national regimes of labor regulation and the problem of the workplace / P.K. Edwards -- Job control under different labor relations regimes : a comparison of Canada and Great Britain / Jacques Belanger -- Workplace discipline in international comparative perspective / Larry Haiven -- Shopfloor relations at U.S. and Canadian plants of an automotive parts supplier, 1936-1988 / Stephen Herzenberg; Bargaining regimes and the social reorganization of production : the case of General Motors in Austria and Germany / Karen Shire -- New technology and the process of labor regulation : an international perspective / Anthony E. Smith -- Conflict and compliance : the workplace politics of a disk-drive factory in Singapore / Chung Yuen Kay -- The new international division of labor and its impact on unions : a case study of high-tech Mexican export production / Harley Shaiken -- Patterns of workplace relations in the global corporation : toward convergence? / Stephen Frenkel -- Conclusion : globalization, national systems, and the future of workplace industrial relations / Larry Haiven, P.K. Edwards, and Jacques Belanger