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William K. Carroll

William K. Carroll is a professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where he served as founding director of the Social Justice Studies Program (2008-2012). Among his recent books are The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century, Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication (co-authored with Bob Hackett), Challenges and Perils: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times and Critical Strategies for Social Research. He has won the Canadian Sociological Association's John Porter Prize twice for his books on the structure of corporate power in Canada. He is a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, an associate editor of the journal Socialist Studies and a member of the International Network of Scholar Activists.

Kanchan Sarker has a PhD in sociology from the University of North Bengal and teaches at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. He has also taught at York University, the University of Windsor, the University of Waterloo and Cleveland University. He was a researcher at the Sociological Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, from 1990-2001. He studies social movements, social inequality, globalization and neoliberalism, and has published several papers in national and international journals.

Books by William K. Carroll

Regime of Obstruction

How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy

edited by William K. Carroll

Organizing the 1%

How Corporate Power Works

by (author) William K. Carroll & J.P. Sapinski

Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism

by (author) William K. Carroll

Critical Strategies for Social Research

edited by William K. Carroll

Global Shaping and its Alternatives

edited by Yildiz Atasoy & William K. Carroll

Organizing Dissent

Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and Practice, Second Edition

edited by William K. Carroll

Fragile Truths

Twenty-Five Years of Sociology and Anthropology in Canada

edited by William K. Carroll, Linda Christiansen-Ruffman & Raymond E. Currie