False Promises

“An important new approach to the American working class.” - Ed Townsend , Christian Science Monitor

“Stanley Aronowitz has written what is perhaps one of the most challenging works of contemporary social criticism.” - Ronald Radosh , The Nation

In praise of the original edition:
“False Promises is a rich, suggestive, and honest book. . . . [This book] stimulates the labor historian’s imagination.” - Robert H. Zieger, Journal of American History

“A fascinating work of social history, thoughtful, informed and most suggestive. Aronowitz has succeeded brilliantly in evoking the character of modern industrial society.” - Noam Chomsky

“Stanley Aronowitz succeeds marvelously in breaking the ritualized categories of sociologists in this field and in revealing the ideological content and function of these categories.” - Herbert Marcuse