Publications: Books, Chapters, Articles and Reviews

Chris Howell

Books:

Trade Unions and the State: The Construction of Industrial Relations Institutions in Britain, 1890-2000 (Princeton University Press, 2005). 243 pages.

Regulating Labor: The State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992). 287 pages.

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

"Market Failure or Political Failure? The Fate of Trade Unions in Britain, France and the United States," in Klaus Armingeon and Simon Geissb hler, eds., Gewerkschaften in der Schweiz: Herausforderungen und Optionen, (Zurich: Seismo Verlag, 2000), pp. 291-338.

"Unforgiven: British Trade Unionism in Crisis," in George Ross and Andrew Martin, eds., The Brave New World of Labor: European Trade Unions at the Millennium. (New York: Berghahn, 1999), pp. 26-74.

"Virtual Trade Unionism in France," in Herrick Chapman, Mark Kesselman, and Martin Schain, eds., A Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement for the Twenty-First Century? (New York: St Martin's Press, 1998), pp. 205-212.

"A Theory of Capitalist Regulation," in Robert Boyer and Toshia Yamada, eds., Regyurashion Korekushion 3: Rabooru Sarariaaru (Tokyo: Fujiwara-Shoten, 1996), pp. 41-87. This is a collection, in Japanese, containing a translation of a chapter of my book, Regulating Labor: The State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France.

"French Socialism and the Transformation of Industrial Relations Since 1981," in Anthony Daley, ed., The Mitterrand Era: Policy Alternatives and Political Mobilization in France (Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1996), pp.141-160.

Journal Articles:

"Is There a Third Way for Industrial Relations?" British Journal of Industrial Relations, 42: 1 (March 2004), pp. 1-22.

"Varieties of Capitalism: And Then There Was One?" Comparative Politics, 36:1 (October 2003), pp. 103-124.

"The End of the Relationship Between Social Democratic Parties and Trade Unions?" Studies in Political Economy, 65 (Summer 2001), pp. 7-37.

"Constructing British Industrial Relations," British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2:2 (June 2000), pp. 205-236.

"From New Labour to No Labour? The Industrial Relations Project of the Blair Government in Britain," New Political Science, 22:2 (June 2000), pp. 201-229.

"Restructuring British Public Sector Industrial Relations: State Policies and Trade Union Responses," Policy Studies Journal volume 26, number 2 (Summer 1998), pp 293-309.

"Women as the Paradigmatic Trade Unionists? New Work, New Workers and New Trade Union Strategies in Conservative Britain," Economic and Industrial Democracy volume 17, number 4 (November 1996), pp. 510-543.

"Editorial Introduction," (with Rianne Mahon) Economic and Industrial Democracy volume 17, number 4 (November 1996), pp. 499-509.

Editor (with Rianne Mahon) of "Strategies for Union Renewal: Women Wage Earners as the New Exemplar?" special issue of Economic and Industrial Democracy volume 17, number 4 (November 1996), pp. 499-665.

"Turning to the State: Thatcherism and the Crisis of British Trade Unionism," New Political Science number 33-34 (Winter 1995-1996), pp. 13-50.

"Trade Unions and the State: A Critique of British Industrial Relations," Politics & Society volume 23, number 2 (June 1995), pp. 149-183.

"Family or Just Good Friends? The Changing Labour Party-Trade Union Relationship in Britain Since 1979," International Journal of Political Economy volume 22, number 4 (Winter 1992-93), pp. 17-35.

"Introduction: The Transformation of Political Exchange," (with Anthony Daley) International Journal of Political Economy volume 22, number 4 (Winter 1992-93), pp. 3-16.

Editor (with Anthony Daley) of "Working Class Mobilization: Labor Unions, Left Parties, and the New Europe," special issue of International Journal of Political Economy volume 22, number 4 (Winter 1992-93), pp. 1-90.

"The Dilemmas of Post-Fordism: Socialists and Flexibility in France," Politics & Society volume 20, number 1 (March 1992), pp. 71-99.

"The Contradictions of French Industrial Relations Reform," Comparative Politics volume 24, number 2 (January 1992), pp. 181-197.

"The Fetishism of Small Difference: French Socialism Enters the Nineties," French Politics and Society volume 9, number 1 (Winter 1991), pp. 26-39.

Other:

"Labor Parties and Labor Movements in a Post-Fordist Political Economy: The British, French, and German Cases," (with Anthony Daley and Stephen Silvia) Center For European Studies Working Paper Series, number 35 (1991), pp. 1-84.


Book Reviews:

Review of Steve Jefferys, Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité at Work: Changing French Employment Relations and Management, for Industrial and Labor Relations Review, volume 57, number 4 (July 2004), pp. 614-615.

Review of Louise Amoore, Globalisation Contested: An International Political Economy of Work, for British Journal of Industrial Relations, volume 41, number 4 (December 2003), pp. 795-797.

Review of Ian Clark, Governance, the State, Regulation and Industrial Relations, for British Journal of Industrial Relations, volume 40, number 4 (December 2002), pp. 781-783.

Review of Peter Dorey, Wage Politics in Britain, for Industrial and Labor Relations Review, volume 96, number 3 (October 2002), pp. 182-183.

Review of Ian Clark, Governance, the State, Regulation and Industrial Relations, for British Journal of Industrial Relations, volume 40, number 3 (September 2002), pp. 781-783.

Review of Mike Ironside and Roger Seifert, Facing up to Thatcherism: The History of NALGO, 1979-93, for Industrial and Labor Relations Review, volume 55, number 2 (January 2002), pp. 363-364.

Review of Torben Iversen, Jonas Pontusson and David Soskice, eds., Unions, Employers, and Central Banks for American Political Science Review, volume 95, number 2 (June 2001), pp. 499-501.

Review of David Cannadine, The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain, and Ross McKibbin, Classes and Cultures: England 1918-1951 for British Politics Group Newsletter, number 103 (Winter 2001), pp. 17-18.

Review of W. Hamish Fraser, A History of British Trade Unionism 1700-1998, for British Politics Group Newsletter, number 102 (Fall 2000), pp. 15-16.

Review of Gerald Friedman, State-Making and Labor Movements: France and the United States, 1876-1914, for British Journal of Industrial Relations, volume 38, number 3 (September 2000), pp. 461-463.

Review of Jonathan Boswell and James Peters, Capitalism in Contention: Business Leaders and Political Economy in Modern Britain, for Journal of Politics, volume 61, number 2 (May 1999).

Review of Steel State and Labor: Mobilization and Adjustment in France, by Anthony Daley (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1996), for the journal The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, volume 559 (September 1998), p. 187.

A review of Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss, by Miriam Golden (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997), for the journal Industrial and Labor Relations Review, volume 52, number 1 (October 1998), pp. 137-139.

A review of The Lost Perspective? Trade Unions Between Ideology and Social Action in the New Europe, by Patrick Pasture, Johan Verberckmoes and Hans de Witte, eds. (Aldershot: Avebury, 1996), for the journal Industrial and Labor Relations Review, volume 51, number 3 (April 1998), pp. 541-542.

A review of Working for the Union: British Trade Union Officers, by John Kelly and Edmund Heery (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), for the journal Industrial and Labor Relations Review volume 49, number 4 (July 1996), pp. 748-749.

A review of States, Markets, and Public Policy: Privatization in Britain and France, by Nikolaos Zahariadis (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), for the journal Journal of Politics volume 58, number 3 (August 1996), pp. 920-922.

A review of Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge, edited by Jacques Bélanger, P. K. Edwards, and Larry Haiven (Ithaca: LIR Press, 1994), for the journal Industrial and Labor Relations Review volume 49, number 3 (April 1996), pp. 553-554.

A review of The Politics of French Trade Unionism, by Jeff Bridgford (New York: Leicester University Press, 1991), for the journal Industrial and Labor Relations Review volume 48, number 4 (July 1995), pp. 864-865.

A review of Social Institutions and Economic Performance, by Wolfgang Streeck (Newbury Park: Sage, 1992), for the journal Economic and Industrial Democracy, volume 15, number 1 (February 1994), pp. 134-138.

A review of The New Politics of British Trade Unionism, by David Marsh (Ithaca: ILR Press, 1992), for the journal Industrial and Labor Relations Review volume 47, number 1 (October 1993), pp. 133-135.

A review of La CGT: Crises et Alternatives, by Guy Groux and René Mouriaux (Paris: Economica, 1992), and Le Syndicalisme en France, by Réné Mouriaux (Paris: PUF, 1992), for the journal French Politics and Society volume 11, number 3 (Summer 1993), pp. 62-65.

A review of Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies, edited by Frances Fox Piven ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) for the journal American Journal of Sociology, volume 98, number 5 (March 1993), pp. 1251-1253.

A review (co-authored with Susan Clayton) of Equality Politics and Gender, edited by Elizabeth Meehan and Selma Sevenhuijsen (Newbury Park: Sage, 1991) for the journal Sex Roles volume 27, number 9/10 (November 1992), pp. 566-569.

A review of Les Syndicats Européens à l'épreuve, edited by Geneviève Bibes and René Mouriaux (Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale de Sciences Politiques, 1990), for the journal French Politics and Society volume 9, number 3-4 (Summer/Fall 1991), pp. 176-179.

A review of Contemporary France: A Review of Interdisciplinary Studies. Volume Two, edited by George Ross and Jolyon Howorth (New York: Pinter Publishers, 1988), for the journal French Politics and Society volume 7, number 1 (Winter 1989), pp. 80-83.