This is a small book with a large ambition: to establish a coherent historical context for the global justice movement that has in recent years confronted the juggernaut of international corporate capitalism and neo-liberalism. It is the latest in a continuing series of provocative, closely argued, book-length essays on social issues produced by this out-standing historian and indefatigable activist gadfly. Earlier titles include A World Without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science (1992), The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention (1999), Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment and the Message of Resistance (1995) and Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education (2002). America By Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (1977) and Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (1984) are acknowledged...
Wade Rowland is a former producer and senior executive at both CBC and CTV, and is now a professor at York University, teaching in the joint York-Ryerson graduate program in communication and culture and in the Atkinson School of Arts and Letters program in culture and expression. He is a former Maclean Hunter Chair of Ethics in Communication at Ryerson University and is author of a number of books, including Greed, Inc. (Thomas Allen, 2005), Galileo’s Mistake (Arcade Publishing, 2003), Spirit of the Web (Key Porter, 1999) and Ockham’s Razor (Key Porter, 1999). He is an unreconstructed CBC radio addict.
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