Bruce E Kaufman.

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Bruce E Kaufman, ed Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Pres 1998 565 pp $2995

This is not the sort of volume one would read cover to protect Rather, although there is a wealth of information in the book the book is more a hint work that one would venture off the shelf to ask advice of a chapter or two as undivided began research in a particular area of workplace regulation. The myriad of chapters (18 in all, written mainly through university scholars) offers a broad anticipate at government regulation of the vocation relationship. Many chapters summarize increases in law in a variety of legal areas, including regulation of minimum wages and overtime pay, worker compensation, unemployment insurance, pensions, workplace health and safety, unionization and collective bargaining, business at will and wrongful discharge, affirmative action, and dispute resolution. Other chapters assess the empirical research forward the impact of various regulations onward workplace relationships, including pointing to areas in which there is a dearth of investigation while still other chapters summarize theoretical approaches in the consideration of workplace regulation. The "old" and "new" institutionalist theories and neoclassical thinking are given often of this attention. Finally, other chapters insinuate potential policy fixes for existing question s in employment regulation.

The unifying themes of the work become apparent early in the compass Bruce Kaufman's chapter at the beginning of the work outlines the logic of the "old" institutionalists as they defined explanation reasons as to why conduct regulation of the workplace was emergencyed Many, if not most of these reasons, defined early in the hundred by John Commons and others, still exist today and can be summ up as they are rather nicely in undivided of the later chapters of the main division by Robert Pleasure of the AFL-CIO and Patricia Greenfield when they state, "Regulation which establishes minimum standards is necessary because in our social, moral, and economic methods there needs to be a counterbalance to unregulated employer power" (p 517)

Another important theme appearing in a number of the chapters is a call for policies to make secure worker "voice" in the workplace. Richard Edwards, in his chapter forward employee rights, proposes that employee be allowed to participate in elections to determine the contented of employee handbooks. David Levine and Thomas Schneider discuss the positive parts workers and unions, respectively, can play in regulatory reform. David Weil reach forths this point by providing evidence that the nearness of a union in a workplace increases the likelihood of compliance with command regulations on employment, fair hiring practices, and safety. Ray Marshall, addressing the ne for revision of health and safety regulations, calls for joint labor-management committees.

While the work or at least the chapters relevant to one's research will be indispensable reading for those working in these various areas of business regulation, the volume also has its flaws. any areas of law are not well-developed (or unfolded at all) in this whirl Policies concerning sexual harassment, vocation of the disabled, and family leave approach quickly to mind. And no other than one chapter, Mary Radford's, discusses anti-discrimination policy in any detail. Other areas learn extended treatment across multiple chapters, in particular, labor standards legislation and workplace health and safety regulation. There are other redundancies across chapters. For instance, the debates between the institutionalists and neoclassical economists appear to be overworked in the chapters in the first half of the work but, oddly, disappear in the latter half of the volume Perhaps a more balanced treatment of the different areas of regulation and theorizing was called for. Finally, while not necessarily a flaw of the book potential readers should know that the part contains little that is original or recent work. Rather, it supplies summaries and overviews of extant research and contemplation Anyone delving into the intricacies of agency regulation, however, should have a expect at this volume, at the exceedingly least at the index, to determine whether one's area of interest is included.

Associate Professor of Sociology

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN 37235

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