Book Reviews
Abstract
BOOK REVIEWS 237 Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations, edited by Stephen Sleigh. Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. UpJohn Institute, 1992, 224 pp. $25.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). The 10 essays in this book have their origins in a 1989-1990 City University of New York seminar series on labor's role in the changing structure of industry. They have a general focus on the problems of older industries in older industrial regions in the United States and Europe. The emergence of global capitalist competition every- where puts pressure on these regions and industries and thus their workers' wages and benefits. Although the reports from industries and areas contained here include some that examine state policies to support modernization, the distinctive approach of all the authors is their interest in, and reports on, the involvement of workers and their unions in the process of coping with restructuring. Despite optimism in the editor's introduction, the general pattern, with some exception, is discouraging. A creative combination of state grants and labor involve- ment in Michigan (reported by Michael Schippani) was ended on the election of a Republican governor. Avery modest program to design new technologies around skill enhancement and worker participation in