Mike Donaldson was for many years the Head of the Sociology Department at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He was the founding secretary of the Gramsci Society (Asia-Pacific), and was formerly the NSW State Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union. Dr Donaldson has written books and many learned articles on matters of class and gender relating to contemporary daily life and he enjoys being a member of the editorial collective of Australian Socialist. When he is not working with the union movement in Wollongong on the New South Wales South Coast, Mike is most likely writing, reading, gardening, cooking, eating or chasing after his chooks.