[2] Parmet taught at Kean University up until 1967 in the Social Science Department,[3] and is currently employed at CUNY York and has worked there since its opening in 1967.
Additionally he has written for many papers such as the History News Network,[5] United Press International,[6] and International Labor and Working-Class History under the Cambridge University Press.
[7] He has written extensively about labor and unions in 20th-century America, including those of women,[8] immigrants,[9] and of David Dubinsky.
[10] In 1968, he received a $2,000 grant ($18,234.20 USD in 2024) to write a biography on American senator Chauncey Depew.
[14] He attended Graduate School at Columbia University while teaching at the City College of New York.