Money, jobs, careers, training_all are topics often overheard in the conversation of middle-class Americans. One of the nation's leading critics of education, the world of work, and the labor movement, Stanley Aronowitz shows how new technologies, labor, and education all are deeply intertwined in our culture and everyday lives. This book reflects Aronowitz's thinking at a time when globalization has brought these connections to broad public attention. Aronowitz argues for the decline of 'the job' as the backbone, along with family, of American society. Despite high employment, low wages and job insecurity leave many families at or below the poverty line. The career instability previously experienced mostly by blue-collar workers has spread to middle managers and high-level executives caught in the rapid movement of capital and technologies. In light of these facts, Aronowitz argues for a new social contract between employers and workers.

"Even those of us who do not think of Aronowitz as one of our own, however, have much to learn from books like The Last Good Job in America. The book covers an astonishingly broad territory. Aronowitz's pessimism is pervasive, brilliantly articulated, and anything but vague." - Industrial and Labor Relations Review

"This book makes a clearly defined contribution..." - Contemporary Sociology

"The recognition that contemporary neo-liberal technoculture is beset with a plethora of severe social, economic, and moral problems is, in itself, no profound revelation. In The Last Good Job in America, however, Stanley Aronowitz addresses these issues with extraordinary urgency, clarity, and intellectual depth. For those holding a somewhat different vision of social utopia from that propelling neo-liberal technoculture, then, this veritable tour-de-force offers significant hope, moral inspiration, and political encouragement. Indeed, The Last Good Job in America affords labor and academics with a strategic blueprint to create a more equitable and just society." - Journal Of Educational Thought(Jet)