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Aarhus Kommunes Biblioteker (Teknisk Bibliotek), Ingerslevs Plads 7, Aarhus, Denmark. Representative: V. NEDERGAARD PEDERSEN (Librarian).

Nuffield College was founded in 1937 by Viscount Nuffield, ‘to encourage research especially but not exclusively in the field of social studies, and especially by making easier the co‐operation of academic and non‐academic persons’. Its principal aim is to provide facilities for the research work of its Fellows, and for the training of graduate research students, and it differs from most Oxford colleges in having no undergraduates. The building of permanent premises was delayed by the war, but since 1949 work has progressed rapidly and last year the college occupied one wing of its permanent home.

THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION has recently given to Brunel College a grant of £5,000 p.a. for three years. This was the response to an application by the Department of Management and Production Engineering for funds to finance the beginnings of a social and psychological research centre in the department. The centre will be staffed partly by lecturers who are already in full‐time employment and engaged in research and partly by staff who are yet to be recruited and who will be paid for out of Nuffield funds.

This paper presents an historical reconstruction of the radicalisation of Alan Fox, the industrial sociologist and a detailed analysis of his early historical and sociological writing in the classical pluralist phase.

An intellectual history, including detailed discussion of key Fox texts, supported by interviews with Fox and other Biographical sources.

Fox’s radicalisation was incomplete, as he carried over from his industrial relations (IR) pluralist mentors, Allan Flanders and Hugh Clegg, a suspicion of political Marxism, a sense of historical contingency and an awareness of the fragmented nature of industrial conflict.

Recent academic attention has centred on Fox’s later radical pluralism with its “structural” approach to the employment relationship. This paper revisits his early, neglected classical pluralist writing. It also illuminates his transition from institutional IR to a broader sociology of work, influenced by AH Halsey, John Goldthorpe and others and the complex nature of his radicalisation.

We investigate whether smooth robust methods for forecasting can help mitigate pronounced and persistent failure across multiple forecast horizons. We demonstrate that naive predictors are interpretable as local estimators of the long-run relationship with the advantage of adapting quickly after a break, but at a cost of additional forecast error variance. Smoothing over naive estimates helps retain these advantages while reducing the costs, especially for longer forecast horizons. We derive the performance of these predictors after a location shift, and confirm the results using simulations. We apply smooth methods to forecasts of UK productivity and US 10-year Treasury yields and show that they can dramatically reduce persistent forecast failure exhibited by forecasts from macroeconomic models and professional forecasters.

The views of a trade unionist on a number of topics and ‘bones of contention’ in the field of apprenticeship are presented by Mr Carron. The author is Chairman and Director of the British Productivity Council, a Director of the Industrial Training Council, Member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, Engineering Chairman of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, President of the British Section of the International Metalworkers' Federation, Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, Trustee of Churchill College, Cambridge Appeal Fund, and a member of the following bodies: the National Production Advisory Council for Industry, the Engineering Advisory Council, the Machine Tools Advisory Council, the National Joint Advisory Council, the Air League of the British Empire, and the United Kingdom Council of the European Movement.

The affluent worker study has held sway as one of the most important works, if not the most important work in British sociology over the last decade. Its findings remain unchallenged in the literature to date. Many analyses of industrial behaviour, political behaviour, family behaviour and “community” behaviour take the findings as the starting point of their investigation. For British sociology the findings of the Affluent Worker have foundation status. This paper sets out to fault the claims of prototypicality and typicality made for the affluent workers of Luton by the study team.

The technologist with aspirations to high‐level management and administration is going to need more than cost‐consciousness to back up his specialist studies. In the author's view, the best place for him to gain the financial understanding he will need is the CAT. Further articles considering management studies from a quite different viewpoint will discuss what should be taught and how it can be taught.

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It has often been said that a great part of the strength of Aslib lies in the fact that it brings together those whose experience has been gained in many widely differing fields but who have a common interest in the means by which information may be collected and disseminated to the greatest advantage. Lists of its members have, therefore, a more than ordinary value since they present, in miniature, a cross‐section of institutions and individuals who share this special interest.