| At the time his article, "Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals," was published, McDermott, who holds a B.A. from CUNY/Brooklyn College, is professor emeritus of labor studies at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. |
Links:This article on "Science, Technology and Social Responsibility," by Philip L. Bereano of the University of Washington, includes a discussion of McDermott's and Mesthene's ideas.
A brief review of McDermott's book, The Crisis in the Working Class and Some Arguments for a New Labor Movement (Boston: South End Press, 1980) may be found on the site of the Economic Policy Institute.A review of Ronald L. Filippelli and Mark D. McColloch, Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers by McDermott is listed in the contents of the March 1997 issue of the Review of Radical Political Economics. (The text is not on-line).
Updated December 14, 2000