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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 concerned primarily 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.