Science, Technology, and the Social Order

by Ward Morehouse

150 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Ward Morehouse (1929 - June 30, 2012) was a committed Bhopal and anti-corporate activist.

His father, Edward Ward Morehouse, was a progressive political economist focusing on public utilities, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. His mother, Anna Ely Morehouse, daughter of the famous professor Richard T. Ely, was a sociologist and a passionate advocate for racial justice in Princeton, NJ.She co-authored Social Problems, a Study of Present Day Social Conditions in 1933.

Morehouse dedicated over five decades of his life to activism, starting off as the founder of the Center for International and Comparative Studies, and then publishing textbooks for the New York State Education Department which aimed at helping students better understand foreigners. Next Morehouse founded the Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA) a not-for-profit human rights organization where he first heard about the Bhopal disaster.

Morehouse contributed significantly to the struggle for justice in Bhopal, founding the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) as well as authoring several key books about the gas disaster.

Morehouse was also co-founder of Programs on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD) an American anti-corporate research collective.