False Promises

The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

By: Stanley Aronowitz

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Paperback | 17 December 1991

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522 Pages

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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&rsquo;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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"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

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Trade Unions

Preface
New Introduction: Writing Labor's History
Introduction	p. 1
New Developments in Working Class Life and Labor
Lordstown: Disruption of the Assembly Line	p. 21
Colonized Leisure, Trivialized Work	p. 51
The Formation of the American Working Class
Formation of the Industrial Working Class	p. 137
Trade Unionism: Illusion and Reality	p. 214
The Formation of the Professional Servant Class	p. 264
The White-Collar Proletarians	p. 291
The Unsilent Fifties	p. 323
Epilogue	p. 395
Short Bibliography	p. 445
Index	p. 449
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