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In October 1971 the Department of Employment released the first film in this series, made by the Rank Short Film Group. Between its release then and mid‐April 1972 1965 bookings of the film were made and 290 copies were sold — an all time record for the Central Film Library. In my review of this film, The Industrial Relations Act — An Introduction I commented that this was a subject which ill lent itself to film. But the enormous response to this film and the fact that some five and a half million copies of booklets on the Act issued by the Department of Employment have already been distributed testifies to the very wide interest (and indeed considerable bewilderment) about the most controversial piece of industrial relations legislation for many decades. For the sake of those who missed the review of this first film and in order to provide an overall survey, now I will comment on all the five films in this series. The following descriptions by the Central Film Library outline the content of each film, upon which I will then comment in more detail.

Sustainable Development Goal 14 of the United Nations aims to ‘conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development’. To achieve this goal, we must rebuild the marine life-support systems that provide society with the many advantages of a healthy ocean. Therefore, countries worldwide have been using Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to restore, create, or protect habitats and ecosystems. Palau was one of the first countries to use MPAs as a tool to develop biodiversity within its exclusive economic zone. On 22 October 2015, Palau placed approximately 80% of its maritime territory in a network of locally monitored MPAs, which has now shown a population increase in stationary and migratory fish species. This movement towards a MPA was intentional and because of increased pressure from tourism and the increasing incursion of foreign fishing vessels in Palauan territorial waters. Since countries worldwide are using and looking towards MPAs, secondary protection projects are becoming more and more popular. This chapter highlights the practical implementations and results in Palau, how to theoretically apply this within the Greater North Sea in combination with Windmill Farms, and how the Marine Strategy Framework Directive stimulates these practices.

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the process of social and technical change that took place between 1997 and 2007 through which Samsø, a rural island of 4,000 inhabitants, became Denmark’s Renewable Energy Island (REI).

Building on ethnographic fieldwork conducted on Samsø in 2013 and 2014, the paper takes as its starting point a citizens’ meeting in which a new renewable energy project is proposed by a municipal coordinator. This meeting, in which the municipal coordinator exhibits a “change management” attitude, fails to win the citizens’ support and becomes an entry point into an investigation of how the REI project developers managed to get the island community to actively support the project. A gateway to the past, the meeting allows the author to ethnographically describe the unobserved events of 1997-2007.

The argument is that the REI project developers practised management through hope or “hope management”, in contrast to “change management”, creating a project that succeeded in accomplishing its goals of changing the island due to its openness, its rootedness in the island community’s past, and the project developers’ ability to speak to a down-to-earth variety of hope.

The paper makes use of an ethnographic study of the present to investigate an unobserved past in which a REI was built. Taking up the “hope debate” in anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (Stengers, 2002; Miyazaki, 2004; Jensen, 2014), the paper contributes with an empirical analysis of the role of hope in the management of change processes.

Hyped by the Administration, the problem of productivity has lately hit the headlines. Like the Nixon and Ford governments, Carter and his entourage of economic experts have taken to loud public lamentations about the U.S.' low productivity growth. In fact, Carter has been far more pessimistic on this score than his predecessors, predicting an annual productivity growth over the next five years of a mere 1.5 percent, compared to previous Department of Labor projections of a 2 percent figure. The very day after his gloomy forecast in the Economic Report to Congress, the Labor Department unveiled the lousy productivity score for 1978—a trifling 0.4 percent increase, the worst since the 1974 depression. Carter solemnly warned the nation that this alarming drift at a time of high inflation threatened everyone's standard of living.

“WHAT is its top speed?” This is the question which is perhaps most frequently asked about any new aeroplane, and it is certainly a question which is usually incorrectly answered. By this is not meant the natural tendency of manufacturers to be optimistic as to the paces of their latest progeny, but merely that the top speed of an aeroplane cannot be stated with accuracy until a number of careful and methodical measurements have been made. In this article a short account will be given of the errors inherent in the ordinary methods for indicating speeds, and descriptions of some of the methods evolved to measure speed—not only top speed but speed generally—to a high degree of accuracy.

Grassroots innovations, developed by local people using locally available resources, have shown the potential to provide low-cost technological solutions to the problems faced by underserved consumers in the global south. This paper aims to link the concept of grassroots innovations to energy use in the context of India.

The paper takes three case studies from the list of technologies scouted and nurtured by the National Innovation Foundation to critically discuss the potential of grassroots innovations for the dissemination and diffusion of urban sustainable energy uses. The data for this study has been collected from various secondary sources. It discusses the opportunities and challenges in promoting grassroots innovations for sustainable energy uses in urban settings.

The paper discusses the opportunities and challenges in promoting grassroots innovations for sustainable energy uses in urban settings.

Although the concept and understanding of grassroots innovations have well developed, its linkages with sustainable energy use in urban settings have received scarce or no attention in the literature.

The purpose of this paper is to stimulate an urgent dialogue about the impact of automated opinion engines (“bots”) on the functioning of public institutions in democratic societies. While the use of political bots may or may not have influenced the recent US presidential election or the UK “Brexit” referendum, it is believed that the implications of the use of political bots are more broadly troubling. There is an urgent need for common standards to prevent the abuse of these powerful digital tools.

The paper is based on a review of recent pieces describing political bots and attempts to extrapolate our learnings from recent political campaigns to the broader context of the discussion of all public issues.

It was found that the use of political bots has a powerful ability to manipulate public opinion and could easily infect the totality of public discourse.

The core data on which the author’s discussion is based are limited to primary research by a small number of data scientists. This pool needs to be significantly expanded.

The insights the author proposes should serve to stimulate an organized effort to develop common standards for the use of and to prevent the abuse of these automated opinion tools.

Unless an effort along these lines is made, distrust in all democratic and transparent institutions is highly likely to decrease.

While much has been written about bots in politics, the author believes that this is the first attempt to trace the dangers of bots across a much broader set of community institutions.

IT can be shown that a close analogy exists between the system of forces acting on the blades of an airscrew and on a direct‐acting engine.

THE advantages and disadvantages of the fixed wing for gyroplanes are examined. On the simplest assumptions an expression for the percentage load taken by the fixed wing of a gyroplane is derived. The values so arrived at are compared with those found by experiment and the discrepancy between the two is explained in terms of the increased downwash at the centre of the disc of the gyroplane. It is shown that as much as 50 per cent of the weight of the aircraft can be taken by the wing at top speed with moderate wing area and the most suitable setting. The advantages of an adjustable wing from the point of view of rotor speed control are pointed oat. The Lift/Drag of the combination is raised by 2 over the L/D of the rotor alone. The stability of gyroplanes is discussed.