Books Reviewed: Anne McBride, Gender Democracy In Trade Unions Peter Dawkins and Craig Littler, (eds) Downsizing: Is it Working for Australia? Emma Wallis, Industrial Relations in the Privatised Coal Industry: Continuity, Change and Contradictions Jack Eaton, Globalization and Human Resource...

Books reviewed: Human Resource Management and Occupational Health and Safety, Carol Boyd. Reviewed by Geraldine Healy, Queen Mary, University of London In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity: Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring, Anru Lee. Reviewed by Peter Ross,...

The paper draws on a qualitative case study of workplace industrial relations in an inner-city secondary school identified as 'failing' and subsequently closed. It considers the way unionized teachers and their representatives interpret, influence and resist the impact of centralized managerial...