1. Resistance to new technology and its effects on nuclear power, information technology and biotechnology Martin Bauer

2. The crisis of 'progress' Alain Touraine

3. Reinterpreting 'Luddism': resistance to new technology in the British industrial revolution Adrian J. Randall

4. The changeability of public opinions about new technology: assimilation effects in attitude surveys Danckler D. L. Daamen and Ivo A. van der Lans

5. 'Technophobia': a misleading conception of resistance to new technology Martin Bauer

6. Patterns of resistance to new technologies in Scandinavia: an historical perspective Kristine Bruland

7. Henry Ford's relationship to 'Fordism': ambiguity as a modality of technological resistance John M. Staudenmaier

8. Resistance to nuclear technology: optimists, opportunists and opposition in Australian nuclear history Roy M. Macleod

9. New technology in Fleet Street, 1975-80 Roderick Martin

10. The impact of resistance to biotechnology in Switzerland: a sociological view of the recent referendum Marlis Buchmann

11. The politics of resistance to new technology: semiconductor diffusion in France and Japan until 1965 Antonio J. J. Botelho

12. User resistance to new interactive media: participants, processes and paradigms Ian Miles and Graham Thomas

13. The impact of anti-nuclear power movements in international comparison Dieter Rucht

14. In the engine of history: regulators of biotechnology, 1970-86 Robert Bud

15. Product, process, or programme: three cultures and the regulation of biotechnology Sheila S. Jasanoff

16. Learning from Chernobyl for the fight against genetics? Stages and stimuli of German protest movements - a comparative synopsis Joachim Radkau

17. Individual and institutional impacts upon press coverage of sciences: the case of nuclear power and genetic engineering in Germany Hans Mathias Kepplinger

18. Forms of intrusion: comparing resistance to information technology and biotechnology in the USA Dorothy Nelkin

19. Towards a functional analysis of resistance.