Aronowitz (sociology, CUNY Graduate Center) is the author of numerous articles in The Nation, Village Voice, and other magazines and scholarly journals and books. He brings together a collection of essays for concerned academics and policy makers addressing the limitations of the contemporary American educational system--particularly at the higher education level--which, favoring job readiness above any other educational value, has become less about acquiring real knowledge than gaining cultural and social capital. The ten papers examine education and social class, higher education as a public good, the hierarchy of academic labor and the growing numbers of adjunct teachers in higher education, academic unionism and the future of higher education, labor education and its recent decline, and possible ideas for educational renewal drawing from the work of Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire. Eight of the ten chapters were previously published or presented at conferences between 1992 and 2007. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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