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Praise for Stanley Aronowitz: One of America’s most prominent social theorists. * The Brooklyn Rail * Stanley Aronowitz is a national treasure. -- Peter McLaren, UCLA Stanley Aronowitz is the most important scholar on the past and present US working class. -- Cornel West Stanley was a distinguished scholar of labor, work, unions, class, education, American politics, and Marxism.…[False Promises] is the most wide-ranging exploration of working-class consciousness I’ve ever read.…A fighting left needs more people like him. -- Jamie McCallum, Jacobin Through his radical and relentless pursuit of knowledge and justice, Aronowitz provided a blueprint for living an intellectual life that matters to those of us who refuse to accept the status quo. -- Eric Weiner, Montclair State University

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Stanley Aronowitz was a sociologist, labor organizer, and political activist. He taught at a number of higher education institutions—including the CUNY Graduate Center—and was a founder of multiple alternative educational projects, as well as the journals Social Text and Situations. His major works include The Crisis in Historical Materialism: Class, Politics, and Culture in Marxist Theory, False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness, and Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters.

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