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

STANLEY ARONOWITZ
with a Foreword by CORNEL WEST
Edited by PETER BRATSIS, BRUNO GULLI, KRISTIN LAWLER, and MICHAEL PELIAS