Stanley Aronowitz
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Stanley Aronowitz by David Shankbone
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| Born |
January 6, 1933 New York, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | professor, editor, activist |
| Spouse(s) | Ellen Willis |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Ph.D |
| Alma mater |
Union Graduate School (Ph.D., 1975) The New School (B.A., 1968) Brooklyn College (1950) |
| Thesis title | Technology and Labor |
| Thesis year | 1975 |
| Influences | C. Wright Mills,Herbert Marcuse |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociologist, Cultural critic |
| Sub discipline | Labor unions in the United States, Education, Technology, Science Studies |
| Institutions | University of California at Irvine, Columbia University, City University of New York |
| Notable students | Randy Martin |
Stanley Aronowitz (born January 6, 1933) is a professor of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist and cultural critic, an advocate for organized labor and a member of the interim consultative committee of the International Organization for a Participatory Society. In 2012, Aronowitz was awarded the Center for Study of Working Class Life's Lifetime Achievement Award at Stony Brook University.
Born and raised in New York City, Aronowitz attended public primary school in The Bronx before enrolling in The High School of Music & Art in Manhattan. Subsequently, Aronowitz attended Brooklyn College before being suspended by the school's administration for engaging in a demonstration. Instead of returning to school the following year, Aronowitz moved to New Jersey in search of work where he would become employed in several metalworking factories. Aronowitz became involved in the American labor movement while in New Jersey, and in 1959, while laid off from his his job as a metalworker, he found work with the New Jersey Industrial Union Council. Collaborating with the council's president, Aronowitz cowrote New Jersey's unemployment compensation law, subsequently enacted by the state legislature in 1961. His work with the Industrial Union Council lead into Aronowitz' appointment as director of the organizing and boycott department of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Aronowitz would spend the following four years traveling throughout the United States to develop the union's campaigns.
In the 1960s, while employed with the Clothing Workers, Aronowitz began participating in the Civil Rights Movement. Aronowitz engaged in lunch counter sit-ins, as well as gave speeches on behalf of the labor movement to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee on the confluence of African-American civil rights and economic issues. Through his work in the civil rights movement, Aronowitz secured the role of labor coordinator, appointed by Bayard Rustin, on the planning committee of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1962-1963. Aronowitz was tasked with soliciting the support of American labor unions for the March, and while encountering resistance from the majority of trade unions, most notably the AFL-CIO, he secured the endorsement of the United Auto Workers, United Packinghouse Workers of America, as well as rubber and clothing workers' unions.
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