BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed: Laboring Below the Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low‐Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy edited by Frank Munger. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2002, xi + 319 pp., ISBN 0871 546175, £42.50. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. Granta Books, London, 2002, 328 pp., ISBN 1 86207 588 3, £8.99 paper. Hard Work: Life in Low‐Pay Britain by Polly Toynbee. Bloomsbury, London, 2003, 242 pp., ISBN 7475 6415 9, £6.99, paper. Reviewed by M ary R omero School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University Low‐Wage America: How Employers are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace edited by Eileen Appelbaum, Annette Bernhardt and Richard J. Murnane. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2003, xii + 535 pp., ISBN 0 87154 025 8, $45. Reviewed by D avid F airris University of California, Riverside Employment Stability in an Age of Flexibility: Evidence from Industrialized Countries edited by Peter Auer and Sandrine Cazes. International Labour Office, Geneva, 2003, xv + 272 pp., ISBN 92 2 112716 8, SFr 35, paper. Reviewed by G ary S later Economics Division, Nottingham Trent University Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low‐end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise edited by Edmund S. Phelps. Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0 521 81965 5, £40. Reviewed by D avid A. S pencer Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds Can Labor Standards Improve under Globalization? by Kimberley Ann Elliot and Richard B. Freeman. Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, 2003, xii + 179 pp., ISBN 0 88132 332 2 £19.50 paper. International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade, and Public Policy edited by Robert J. Flanagan and William B. Gould iv . Stanford University Press, Stanford, Cal., 2004, 275 pp., ISBN 0 8047 4690 7, £36.95. Reviewed by R ohini H ensman Union Research Group, Bombay International Handbook of Trade Unions edited by John T. Addison and Claus Schnabel. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, Mass., 2003, viii + 555 pp., ISBN 1 84064 979, £140. Reviewed by B ob E lliott Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen Parties and Unions in the New Global Economy by Katrina Burgess. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh Pa, 2004, xxiii + 209 pp., ISBN 0 8229 5825 2, $27.95. Reviewed by K erstin H amann Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida Industrial Relations and European Integration: Trans‐ and Supranational Developments and Prospects edited by Berndt Keller and Hans‐Wolfgang Platzer. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2003, ISBN 0 7546 33365, pp. 182, £45. Reviewed by R ichard H yman London School of Economics Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario by Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin. University of Toronto Press, Toronto/Buffalo/London, 2003, xv + 279 pp., ISBN 0 8020 8753 1, $60/£35. Reviewed by D aphne G. T aras University of Calgary

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