James M. Henslin was born in Minnesota and graduated from high school and junior college in California and from college in Indiana. Awarded scholarships, he earned his Master’s and doctorate in sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health and spent a year studying how people adjust to the suicide of a family member. His primary interests in sociology are the sociology of everyday life, deviance, and international relations.

Henslin enjoys spending time with his wife, reading, and fishing. His two favourite activities are writing and travelling. He especially enjoys living in other cultures, which brings him face to face with behaviours that he cannot take for granted, experiences that “make sociological principles come alive.”

Ann Doris Duffy was educated in Ontario (BA, MA, and PhD at McMaster University). She is currently a full professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University, where she is cross-appointed to the Labour Studies program and is active in the Women’s Studies and Master’s Program in Social Justice and Equity Studies programs. She is currently active in the development of a MA program in critical sociology at Brock.

Dan Glenday was educated in Quebec, where he earned a BA with Distinction from Sir George Williams University—now Concordia University—and an MA from McGill University, and was awarded a PhD from Carleton University in Ontario. He has taught at the University of Toronto, Queen’s University, and Eastern Michigan University, and is now at Brock University, where he is a full professor of Sociology and founder and director of the Centre for Labour Studies. His present research had led him into the work world of professional wrestlers. His most recent books include The Shifting Landscape of Work: Surviving and Prospering in the New Economy (with Ann Duffy and Norene Pupo), Canadian Society: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century (with Ann Duffy), and Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: The Transformation of Work in the 21st Century (with Ann Duffy and Norene Pupo).

Norene Pupo (PhD at McMaster University, 1985) is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University and the director of the Centre for Research on Work and Society of the same university. Professor Pupo has researched and published in the areas of women and work, part-time employment, women and social policy, and unions and economic restructuring.