STEPHEN MCBRIDE is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University. His previous books include Not Working: State, Unemployment and Neo-Conservatism in Canada, winner of the Smiley Prize for the best book on the study of government and politics in Canada; Dismantling a Nation: The Transition to Corporate Rule, co-authored with John Shields; and The Training Trap: Ideology, Training and the Labour Market, co-edited with Thomas Dunk and Randle Nelsen.
JOHN WISEMAN is Associate Professor at the School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Global Nation: Australia and the Politics of Globalization; Alternatives to Globalization: an Asia-Pacific Perspective; and New Economic Directions for Australia, co-authored with J. Camilleri, B. Frankel, R. Watts and P. Christoff. He was joint winner of the International Lelio Basso Prize for Political and Economic Alternatives awarded by the Lelio Basso Foundation, Rome, 1998.