Bio: (1933-2021) American sociologist. Stanley Aronwitz got his Ph. D from Union Graduate School and later taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was the director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center. He was active in the Green Party in the USA, and together with Frederick Jamieson, he was the founder and editor of the magazine Social Text, which deals with theory, culture, and ideology. Aronwitz was also a co-founder and co-editor of the journal Situations.  His area of interest were cultural studies, social movements, urban education, science and technology, social theory, labor relations, and union organizing. 

Aronwitz approached the problems of class, class relations, and education from Marxist and radical positions, while he approached the problems of science and scientific knowledge from a postmodern viewpoint. In the book False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness (1973), Aronowitz describes how the labor movement in America emerged, in large part, from the trade union movement that was trying to set better standards for workers, and which goal was not to radically reform the capitalist system and take over the control of the means of production.  in How Class Works (2003) Aronowitz states that the labor movement in the US still struggles over working conditions, like working hours and overtime pay. But in the class struggle between workers and capitalists, capitalists hold the majority of power and are subjugating the working class by dividing them based on citizenship status, race, and gender. For the labor movement to gain power back, it should forgo divisions and unite to fight for common goals.  

Main works

False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness (1973); 

The Crisis in Historical Materialism: Class, Politics, and Culture in Marxist Theory (1981); 

Education Still Under Siege (1985); 

Science As Power: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society (1988); 

The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism (1996); 

The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning (2001); 

How Class Works: Power and Social Movement (2004); 

Just Around The Corner: The Paradox Of The Jobless Recovery (2005).

Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (2006);

The Last Good Job in America: Work and Education in the New Global Technoculture (2007);

Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters (2008);

Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals (2012);

The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement (2014);

Against Orthodoxy: Social Theory and its Discontents (2015).