The Death of Industrial Civilization: The Limits to Economic Growth and the Repoliticization of Advanced Industrial Society. By Joel Jay Kassiola. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.) 297 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. Paper, $19.95

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-84
Author(s):  
Theodore Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
New York ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
State University ◽  
Industrial Civilization ◽  
Advanced Industrial Society

Aggressive Technology in a Century of Industrial Disasters

2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Batteau
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
State University ◽  
Physical Risk ◽  
Industrial Civilization ◽  
Moral Qualities ◽  
First Time ◽  
Industrial Societies

When the science of humanity turns its attention toward industrial civilization, it should consider not only the condition of industrial producers, which has been the staple of industrial anthropology in works such as those by June Nash (We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines. New York: Columbia University Press. 1979) and Aihwa Ong, (Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia. Albany. State University of New York Press. 1987) but also the distinctive characteristics of industrial societies. One of these is the tendency of industrial societies to democratize physical risk. Some of the unique characteristics of industrial technology, particularly its complexity and its aggressive deployment, have for the first time in history exposed broad reaches of humanity to man-made, large-scale risk. By examining the industrial disasters of the past century, both in their technological dimensions and their moral qualities, we can begin to construct an anthropology of industrial civilization.

Filled with Spirit and Power: Protestant Clergy in Politics. By Laura R. Olson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 174p. $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005-1006
Author(s):  
Paul J. Weber
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
African American ◽  
Family Values ◽  
State University ◽  
Protestant Clergy ◽  
African American Pastors ◽  
The Family ◽  
Limited Scope

Laura Olson is one of a small but energetic and influential group of Christian political scientists determined to bring the debate politically legitimate called it either racist or sexist. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, African American pastors held the most consistently conservative views on family values, although they also saw the connections among crime, violence, and the deterioration of the family. Within the authorÕs intentionally limited scope, this is an excellent study, but one should be cautious about generalizing.

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