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The Jobless Future

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates . This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of The Jobless Future, an eerily accurate title that could have been written for today's dismal economic climate. Fully updated and with a new introduction by Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio, The Jobless Future warns that jobs as we know them-long-term, with benefits-are an endangered species.

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The Jobless Future

Sci-tech and the Dogma of Work

By: Stanley Aronowitz,William DiFazio

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The Jobless Future

Sci-tech and the Dogma of Work

By: Stanley Aronowitz,William DiFazio

The Jobless Future challenges beliefs in the utopian promise of a knowledge-based, high-technology economy. Reviewing a vast body of encouraging literature about the postindustrial age, Aronowitz and DiFazio conclude that neither theory, history, nor contemporary evidence warrants optimism about a technological economic order. Instead, they demonstrate the shift toward a massive displacement of employees at all levels and a large-scale degradation of the labor force." "As they clearly chart a major change in the nature, scope, and amount of paid work, the authors suggest that notions of justice and the good life based on full employment must change radically as well. They close by proposing alternatives to our dying job culture that might help us sustain ourselves and our well-being in a science- and technology-based economic future. One alternative discussed is reducing the workday to fewer hours without reducing pay."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816621942

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The Jobless Future

By: Stanley Aronowitz, William DiFazio

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The Jobless Future

By: Stanley Aronowitz, William DiFazio

Charting a major change in the nature of paid work in the United States.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452915733

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Technoscience and Cyberculture

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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Technoscience and Cyberculture

By: Stanley Aronowitz

The cultural studies of science

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Psychology Press

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0415911761

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The Jobless Future

Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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The Jobless Future

Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work

By: Stanley Aronowitz

The Jobless Future challenges beliefs in the utopian promise of a knowledge-based, high-technology economy. Reviewing a vast body of encouraging literature about the postindustrial age, Aronowitz and DiFazio conclude that neither theory, history, nor contemporary evidence warrants optimism about a technological economic order. Instead, they demonstrate the shift toward a massive displacement of employees at all levels and a large-scale degradation of the labor force. As they clearly chart a major change in the nature, scope, and amount of paid work, the authors suggest that notions of justice and the good life based on full employment must change radically as well. They close by proposing alternatives to our dying job culture that might help us sustain ourselves and our well-being in a science- and technology-based economic future. One alternative discussed is reducing the workday to fewer hours without reducing pay.

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1452900086

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Implicating Empire

Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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Implicating Empire

Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century World Order

By: Stanley Aronowitz

Examines four key dimensions of globalism including its role in the war on terrorism, its impact on domestic U.S. policy, its influence on the shaping of national security, and its own future, in a collection of essays by top international commentators. Original.

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Perseus (for Hbg)

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0465004946

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The Death and Life of American Labor

Toward a New Workers' Movement

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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The Death and Life of American Labor

Toward a New Workers' Movement

By: Stanley Aronowitz

The decline of the American union movement—and how it can revive, by a leading analyst of labor Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time coming—the organizing and political principles adopted by US unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker. In the ’50s and ’60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated the labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten years later, the publication of his book False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness was a landmark in the study of the US working-class and workers’ movements. Aronowitz draws on this long personal history, reflecting on his continuing involvement in labor organizing, with groups such as the Professional Staff Congress of the City University. He brings a historian’s understanding of American workers’ struggles in taking the long view of the labor movement. Then, in a survey of current initiatives, strikes, organizations, and allies, Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor’s rebirth, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers’ movement.

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Verso Books

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1784783005

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The Knowledge Factory

Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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The Knowledge Factory

Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning

By: Stanley Aronowitz

Americans can't get a good education for love or money, argues Stanley Aronowitz in this groundbreaking look at the structure and curriculum of higher education. Moving beyond the canon wars begun in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Aronowitz offers a vision for true higher learning that places a well-rounded education back at the center of the university's mission.

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Beacon Press

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0807031232

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From the Ashes of the Old

American Labor and America's Future

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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From the Ashes of the Old

American Labor and America's Future

By: Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz, teacher, writer, and former trade union organizer, examines the decline of the labor movement in the past 25 years and its recent reemergence as a major player in the country's economic and political life. Aronowitz proposes a series of concrete, programmatic suggestions covering the principal challenges facing the labor movement today.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0395881323

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9780395881323

The Last Good Job in America

Work and Education in the New Global Technoculture

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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The Last Good Job in America

Work and Education in the New Global Technoculture

By: Stanley Aronowitz

Aronowitz presents his latest, controversial thinking on how globalization brings these interconnections to broad public attention.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742509753

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Just Around the Corner

The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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Just Around the Corner

The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery

By: Stanley Aronowitz

A searing indictment of the American way of recession and recovery.

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Temple University Press

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1592131395

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False Promises

The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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False Promises

The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

By: Stanley Aronowitz

This classic study of the American working class, originally published in 1973, is now back in print with a new introduction and epilogue by the author. An innovative blend of first-person experience and original scholarship, Aronowitz traces the historical development of the American working class from post-Civil War times and shows why radical movements have failed to overcome the forces that tend to divde groups of workers from one another. The rise of labor unions is analyzed, as well as their decline as a force for social change. Aronowitz’s new introduction situates the book in the context of developments in current scholarship and the epilogue discusses the effects of recent economic and political changes in the American labor movement.

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Duke University Press

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0822311984

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9780822311980

The Politics of Identity

Class, Culture, Social Movements

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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The Politics of Identity

Class, Culture, Social Movements

By: Stanley Aronowitz

In The Politics of Identity, Stanley Aronowitz offers provocative analysis of the complex interactions of class, politics, and culture. Beginning with the premise that culture is constitutive of class identities, he demonstrates that while feminist analyses of both racial and gay movements have discussed these components of culture, class contributions to cultural identity have yet to be fully examined. In these essays, he uses class as a category for cultural analysis, ranging over issues of ethnicity, race and gender, portrayals of class and culture in the media, as well as a range of other issues related to postmodernism.

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Routledge

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113520554X

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How Class Works

Power and Social Movement

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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How Class Works

Power and Social Movement

By: Stanley Aronowitz

Although Americans like to believe that they live in a classless society, Stanley Aronowitz demonstrates that class remains a potent force. Defining class as the power of social groups to make a difference, he explains that social groups such as labor movements, environmental activists, and feminists become classes when they make demands that change the course of history. “With How Class Works Aronowitz puts the subject of social class squarely on the intellectual agenda—though in a new, inclusive, and dynamic form. Like his influential False Promises, How Class Works is both intellectually exciting and morally challenging.”—Barbara Ehrenreich “In How Class Works Aronowitz argues for the enduring vitality of the concept of social class as a way of understanding social relations. This is a significant contribution to social theory, an argument certain to be widely considered, debated, and tested.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger “An intellectually captivating book on a topic that remains as timely and significant as ever.”—Howard Kimeldorf, University of Michigan

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Yale University Press

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0300105045

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The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism

By: Stanley Aronowitz

The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism differentiates the "Social Justice Left" from "Cultural Radicalism" and the various social movements for individual freedom. In The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism, Stanley Aronowitz asks the question, "Is there anything left of the Left?" With the rise of Newt Gingrich and his "Contract With America," how is it that conservativism staged such a remarkable recovery after being discounted in the turbulent 1960s? Aronowitz addresses these and other burning issues of contemporary politics.

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1136660437

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In Conflict and Order

Understanding Society

By: D. Stanley Eitzen,Maxine Baca Zinn

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In Conflict and Order

Understanding Society

By: D. Stanley Eitzen,Maxine Baca Zinn

This conflict perspective introductory paperback text emphasizes four themes: diversity, the struggle to achieve social justice, economic and global transformations in the U.S., and a global perspective. In Conflict and Order studies the forces that lead to both stability and change in society. As it examines the standard topics in an introductory course, the authors show how social problems are structural in origin. While the pace of social change is increasing, society's institutions are resistant to change. Eitzen and Baca Zinn challenge students to develop a sociological perspective by questioning their own basic beliefs, and to debate the facts rather than merely accepting the authors' way of looking at the world.

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Allyn & Bacon

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0205306446

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9780205306442

Roll Over Beethoven

The Return of Cultural Strife

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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Roll Over Beethoven

The Return of Cultural Strife

By: Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz traces the history of the cultural issue – in both British and American manifestations.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819562629

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9780819562623

Against Schooling

For an Education That Matters

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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Against Schooling

For an Education That Matters

By: Stanley Aronowitz

In Against Schooling, Stanley Aronowitz passionately raises an alarm about the current state of education in our country. Discipline and control over students, Aronowitz argues, are now the primary criteria of success, and genuine learning is sacrificed to a new educational militarism. In an age where school districts have imposed testing, teachers must teach to test, and both teacher and student are robbed of their autonomy and creativity. The crisis extends to higher education, where all but a few elite institutions are becoming increasingly narrowly focused and vocational in their teaching. With education lacking opportunity for self-reflection on broad social and historical dynamics, Against Schooling asks "How will society be able to solve its most pressing problems?" Aronowitz proposes innovative approaches to get schools back on track..

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