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Introduction -- What is innovative leadership? an industry perspective -- From explosion to radiation : why court delays effect loan emis and the wider economy -- Mergers, acquisitions, competitiveness and competition : a study of the indian cement sector -- Gender identity, perceived gender discrimination and stress among working professionals -- Modelling drivers of financial inclusion in India to aid policy-makers-an anp approach -- What drives level of financial inclusion : study with reference to India? -- Need for institutional arbitration in construction contracts in India -- Economic analysis of pharmaceutical patent regime in India : a study in light of pre and post trips regime -- Governance of nanomaterials in India : learning from institutional analysis of the european reach regulation -- Should a constitution contain explicit anti-corruption mechanism? -- The way ahead towards a social economics?

Anne Glyn-Jones opens up the secret world of the interceptors of German Morse Code signals during World War II. Leaving her girls' boarding school with romantic ideas about joining the navy as a Wren, Anne had no idea that she would be working for the mysterious 'Station X', which we now know to be Bletchley Park. Round the clock shifts, bed bugs, rats and poor diet took its toll, as well as the ongoing lack of recognition from the Navy hierarchy. Morse Code Wrens of Station X is a very personal memoir of a young woman's experiences of war time service, as well as providing fascinating insights into the daily realities of the battle for military intelligence superiority

The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value examines the convergence between the recursive function of value in capitalist economies and the functions of abstraction, ascription, and disposal that govern digital systems. Franklin argues that digitality's most pernicious effects are apparent in how digital systems create the illusion of frictionlessness, connectivity, and access, while at the same time working to reinforce a logic of exclusion that externalizes the material realities of depletion. Participation in value-mediated social relations has become mandatory due to the global reach and ubiquitous extension of the informational and economic systems under which workers labor. Race and gender are social categories which position marginalized workers, especially workers from the Global South, as unreliable components in the system, the digitally disposed. Franklin argues, using the study of communication systems, that this positioning is not a flaw of the system, but is rather the intentional effect of forms of capitalist accumulation that depend on the precarity of the lives of those who generate the labor that the system depends on. A valuable contribution to the study of digitality, neoliberalism, political economy, racial capitalism, and technological history, this work shows that the social effects of digitality are not new, but rather are an intensification of the exclusions and forms of marginalization upon which capitalism depends.

This work provides a treasury of information relating to a short pamphlet, twenty-four pages in length and published in London and Glasgow in June 1837. It remains the only existing slave narrative which uses Creole or dialect as the main form of expression. The pamphlet, entitled A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica, played a pivotal role in the abolition of the apprenticeship system. The book, edited by Diana Paton, a history lecturer at the University of Newcastle in Britain, illuminates the argument that historical forces which shaped Jamaica's past were unique, yet similar to those existing in other Caribbean colonies.

In the wake of the Russian Revolution, labor radicals believed that they
had discovered the ideal organizational form: internationally affiliated parties
of professional revolutionaries to coordinate the activities of national trade
unions and mass political parties toward revolutionary ends. Communist
"vanguard" parties proved capable of mobilizing masses but also of
imposing dictatorial control over entire labor movements and for decades
defended Joseph Stalin's hecatombs. Many of today's labor militants
have ransacked the contemporary political scene for alternative methods of
bringing unions into mass politics. The provocative and important collection
edited by Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman argues that labor radicals should
emulate social movements such as the peace, environmental, and feminist
movements.

Howell J. Harris has written an important book that should spark much discussion among historians of labor, who in their rush from institutional history have all but abandoned the history of labor relations. He is one of only a handful of scholars who have studied the history of modern labor relations systems. And a careful reading of Bloodless Victories shows what labor historians have been missing.