Book reviewed in this article:Worker Capitalism: The New Industrial Relations, by Keith Bradley and Alan GelbSelf‐Management: Economic Theory and Yugoslav Practice, by Saul EstrinThe Economic Analysis of the Japanese Firm, edited by M. AokiSparks Fly, by Frank Chapple. Michael JosephIndustrial Relations Research in the 1970s: Review and Appraisal, edited by Thomas A. Kochan, Daniel J. B. Mitchell, and Lee DyerIndustrial Relations and Management Strategy, edited by Keith Thurley and Stephen WoodEmployers Associations and Industrial Relations: A Comparative Study, edited by John P. Windmuller and Alan GladstonePower in a Trade Union: The Role of the District Committee in the AUEW, by Larry JamesIndustry, Unions and Government: Twenty‐One Years of NEDC, Keith MiddlemassContradictions of the Welfare State, by Claus OffeWomen in Control: Dilemmas of a Workers' Co‐operative, by Judy W