* In 1998 Aronowitz married his longtime companion, the radical feminist and journalist Ellen Willis, who died on November 9, 2006.
* Aronowitz once worked with the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies.
* Aronowitz has authored, co-authored, or edited the following books:
False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness (1974; second edition 1992)
Food, Shelter, and the American Dream (1974)
The Crisis in Historical Materialism: Class, Politics, and Culture in Marxist Theory (1981)
Working Class Hero: A New Strategy for Labor (1983)
Education Under Siege (co-authored with Henry A. Giroux, 1985)
Science As Power: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society (1988)
Postmodern Education: Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism (co-authored with Henry A. Giroux, 1991)
The Politics of Identity: Class, Culture, Social Movements (1992)
Dead Artists, Live Theories, and Other Cultural Problems (1993)
Roll over Beethoven: The Return of Cultural Strife (1993)
The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work (co-authored with William Difazio, 1993; second edition 2010)
Technoscience and Cyberculture (co-edited with Barbara Martinsons and Michael Menser, 1995)
The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism (1996)
Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation (co-edited with Jonathan Cutler, 1997)
From The Ashes Of The Old: American Labor And America’s Future(1998)
The Last Good Job in America (2001)
The Knowledge Factory : Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning (2001)
Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century (editor, 2002)
Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered Stanley Aronowitz (co-edited with Peter Bratsis, 2002)
Debating Empire (co-edited with Gopal Balakrisnan, 2003)
How Class Works : Power and Social Movement (2004)
Just Around The Corner: The Paradox Of The Jobless Recovery (2005)
Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (2006)
Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters (2008)
Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals (2012)
The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker’s Movement (2014)
Against Orthodoxy: Social Theory and its Discontents (2015)