Stanley Aronowitz is distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education at City University of New York Graduate Center, USA. His classic study of the US working class, False Promises (1973 1992) is still in print forty-two years after it was first published. He is author or editor of twenty-five books including: Against Schooling: For an Education that Matters (2008), Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (2006), Just Around Corner (2005), How Class Works (2003), The Last Good Job in America (2001), The Knowledge Factory (2000) and The Jobless Future (1994). He is founding editor of the journal Social Text and is currently a member of its advisory board. Most recently, he co-founded Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination and serves as co-editor in the journal's editorial collective. He also serves on the advisory board of WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, and has sat on the editorial boards of Cultural Critique and Ethnography. He has published more than two hundred articles and reviews in publications such as Harvard Educational Review, Social Policy, The Nation, and The American Journal of Sociology.