John FryJohn Fry was born in New Westminster and long retired from an academic life as professor of sociology both in Canada at Trent University and the University of Saskatchewan and in Sweden at the Swedish Centre for Work Life Research and Uppsala Universty. Prior to and during his university studies to earn his BA and MA at Simon Fraser University and his PhD in philosophy at Uppsala University, he worked fifteen years in factories, mills and on deep sea freighters in British Columbia, Norway and Sweden. During his professorial career he also worked as labour arbitrator for the government of Saskatchewan and labour relations consultant to mining companies in Canada and Sweden. His previous publications in Swedish and English have been academic in nature and in the form of numerous articles, two books (one with Ulla Ressner) and five edited and translated books published in Sweden, Canada, England and USA). He has also served as associate editor of the American Sociological Associations journal Contemporary Sociology and written extensively in the Swedish national press in polemic form on social issues. Read More Read Less