Talk by Charles Perrow, Yale University. Comment: Steve Barley. Charles Perrow is a Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University. The author of several books and many articles on organizations, he is primarily concerned with the impact of large organizations on society (Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism, 2001), and their catastrophic potentials (Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, 1999). His current interests are in the vulnerabilities of the country's critical infrastructures to natural, industrial, and deliberate disasters. He is currently a visiting scholar at CISAC.
This presentation marks the launch of the new series "Stanford Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society," which will convene at noon each Friday of spring quarter.