The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination is a groundbreaking collection of essays by a diverse set of leading scholars who examine the entangled and evolving global array of corporate-state structures of hegemonic powerwhat the editors refer to as the power complexthat was first analyzed by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic work,The Power Elite. In this new volume edited by Steven Best, Richard Kahn, Anthony J. Nocella II, and Peter McLaren, the power complex is conceived as co-constituted, interdependent and imbricated systems of domination. Spreading insidiously on a global level, the transnational institutional relationships of the power complex combine the logics of capitalist exploitation and profits and industrialist norms of efficiency, control, and mass production, While some have begun to analyze these institutional complexes as separate entities, this book is unique in analyzing them as overlapping, mutually-enforcing systems that operate globally and which will undoubtedly frame the macro-narrative of the 21st century (and perhaps beyond). The global industrial complexa grand power complex of complexesthus poses one of the most formidable challenges to the sustainability of planetary democracy, freedom and peace today. But there can be no serious talk of opposition to it until it is more popularly named and understood.The Global Industrial Complexaims to be a foundational contribution to this emerging educational and political project.

Steven Best is associate professor of humanities and philosophy at University of Texas, El Paso.Richard Kahn is core faculty in education at Antioch University Los Angeles.Peter McLaren is a professor in the school of critical studies in education at University of Auckland, New Zealand.Anthony J. Nocella II is visiting professor in the School of Education at Hamline University.

IntroductionChapter One: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and OursChapter Two: The Corporate War EconomyChapter Three: The Security Industrial ComplexChapter Four: The Media-Military Industrial ComplexChapter Five: The Criminal (Justice) Industrial ComplexChaper Six: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: The Non-Profit Industrial ComplexChapter Seven: Higher Education's Industrial ModelChapter Eight: The Agricultural Industrial ComplexChapter Nine: Origins and Consequences of the Animal Industrial ComplexChapter Ten: Bad For Your Health: The U.S. Medical Industrial Complex Goes GlobalChapter Eleven: College Sports: It's All About the Money!Chapter Twelve: Driving to Carmageddon: Capitalism, Transportation, and the Logic of Planetary CrisisAfterword