15 Facts About Stanley Aronowitz

Stanley Aronowitz was an American sociologist, trade union official, and political activist.

Stanley Aronowitz was 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.

Stanley Aronowitz then attended Brooklyn College until being suspended by its administration for engaging in a demonstration.

Stanley Aronowitz became involved in the American labor movement in New Jersey, and in 1959, while laid off from his job as a metalworker, he found work with the New Jersey Industrial Union Council.

Stanley Aronowitz spent four years traveling throughout the United States to develop the union's campaigns.

Stanley Aronowitz engaged in lunch counter sit-ins and gave speeches on the labor movement's behalf to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee on the confluence of African-American civil rights and economic issues.

Stanley Aronowitz died on August 16,2021, from complications of a stroke, in Manhattan.

Stanley Aronowitz was the author of numerous books on class, culture, sociology of science, and politics.

Stanley Aronowitz defended the journal from criticism after it published a hoax article in its summer 1996 issue.

Stanley Aronowitz was just the second Green candidate for governor.

In 1965 Stanley Aronowitz was one of the lecturers at the Free University of New York shortly after it was founded.

In 2005 Stanley Aronowitz co-founded the journal Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination.

Stanley Aronowitz was first married to Jane O'Connell until divorcing in 1962 and was then married to Ellen Willis from 1998 until her death in November 2006.

Stanley Aronowitz has authored, co-authored, or edited over 26 different books, as well as authored over 200 articles and reviews.