Selected by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library University of California, Berkeley

• Published date: 01 July 2014
• Author: Janice Kimball,Terence K. Huwe
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/irel.12067
• Date: 01 July 2014

Recent Publications

Selected by the Institute for Research on Labor and

Employment Library University of California, Berkeley

TERENCE K. HUWE, Director of Library & Information Resources

JANICE KIMBALL, Library Assistant

Building a Green Economy: Perspectives from Ecological Economics.

Edited by Robert B. Richardson. East Lansing: Michigan State

University Press, 2013. 978-1-61186-102-0. 316 pp. $49.95.

The contributors to this volume are leading ecological economics scholars, and they offer a

variety of perspectives on how to conceptualize and build a green economy. The contributors

take a pragmatic approach that examines both the consequences of unrestrained economic

growth and the costs of environmental degradation. A central goal of the editor is to provide a

roadmap for economic growth that prioritizes human welfare and offers a foil to a single-

minded focus on consumerism and endless growth. As such this book is a useful addition to the

literature of ecological economics, which seeks “to address contemporary problems and achieve

long-term socioeconomic well-being without undermining the capacity of the ecosphere.”

Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession: Findings from the

2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study. By Brigid van

Wanrooy, Helen Bewley, Alex Bryson, John Forth, Stephanie Freeth,

Lucy Stokes, and Stephen Wood. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,

2013. 978-113727-5769. 268 pp. $40.00.

The authors explore long-term changes in employment relations in the United Kingdom. To

do so, they draw upon the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study, which offers a

very large survey sample for study. This survey collects responses from more than 2500

workplace managers, 1000 employee representatives, and 20,000 employees, thus providing

a portrait of the workforce that few developed nations can match. As the title suggests,

authors center their analyses on the Great Recession and how it affected policy and also

created upheaval in the lives of working people. They chart how conditions have changed

since 2004 and the role the recession played in shaping employees’experiences of work.

The book provides an in-depth analysis of the changes made to employment practices

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