The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739136984 ISBN 13: 9780739136980

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2011

Synopsis

The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination, is a groundbreaking collection of essays by leading scholars from wide scholarly and activist backgrounds who examine the entangled array of contemporary industrial complexes-what the editors refer to as "the power complex"-that was first analyzed by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work, The Power Elite.

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Table of Contents

Introduction by Steven Best
Chapter One: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours by Noam Chomsky
Chapter Two: The Corporate War Economy by Carl Boggs
Chapter Three: The Security Industrial Complex by Ward Churchill
Chapter Four: The Media-Military Industrial Complex by Toby Miller
Chapter Five: The Criminal (Justice) Industrial Complex by Mechthild Nagel
Chapter Six: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: The Non-Profit Industrial Complex by              Andrea Smith
Chapter Seven: Higher Education's Industrial Model by Cary Nelson
Chapter Eight: The Agricultural Industrial Complex by Vandana Shiva
Chapter Nine: Origins and Consequences of the Animal Industrial Complex by David Nibert
Chapter Ten: Bad For Your Health: The U.S. Medical Industrial Complex Goes Global by      Asif Ismail
Chapter Eleven: College Sports: It's All About the Money! by Earl Smith and Angela Hattery
Chapter Twelve: Driving to Carmageddon: Capitalism, Transportation, and the Logic of
     Planetary Crisis by Michael Dawson
Afterword by Peter McLaren

About the Author:

Steven Best is associate professor of humanities and philosophy at University of Texas, El Paso.
Richard Kahn is core faculty in education at Antioch University Los Angeles.
Peter McLaren is a professor in the school of critical studies in education at University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Anthony J. Nocella II is a visiting professor in the School of Education at Hamline University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0739136984
• ISBN 13: 9780739136980
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Best Steven, Kahn Richard, Nocella Anthony J., McLaren Peter