Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983, where he is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He received his B.A. at the New School in 1968 and his Ph.D from the Union Graduate School in 1975. He studies labor, social movements, science and technology, education, social theory and cultural studies and is director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center.


He is author or editor of twenty three books including: Just Around Corner The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery (2005); How Class Works (2003); The Last Good Job in America (2001); The Knowledge Factory (2000); The Jobless Future: Sci-tech and the Dogma of Work (1994, with William DiFazio); and False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness (1973,1992).


He is founding editor of the journal Social Text and is currently a member of its advisory board, and he sits on the editorial boards of Cultural Critique and Ethnography. He has published more than two hundred articles and reviews in publications such as Harvard Educational Review, Social Policy, The Nation, and The American Journal of Sociology. Prior to coming to the Graduate School he taught at the University of California-Irvine and Staten Island Community College. He has been visiting professor or scholar at University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of Paris, Lund University and Columbia University.
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