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. Among his recent books are Expose, Oppose, Propose: Alternative Policy Groups in the Struggle for Global Justice, 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) and Challenges and Perils: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times. He has won the Canadian Sociological Association’s John Porter Prize twice for his books on the structure of corporate power in Canada.

Kanchan Sarker teaches Sociology at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan. He also taught at the Dept. of Political Science, York University. He was a researcher at the Sociological Research Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, from 1990-2001. He works on social movements, neoliberalism, inequality and India and publishes in national and international journals.