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Education for Struggle: The American Labor Colleges of the 1920s and 1930s.
By Richard J. Altenbaugh. Philadelphia: Temple University press, 1990. 339 pp. $39.95 cloth.
Brookwood Labor College, Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, and Commonwealth College, are legendary names to today's labor educators. Many of our Mentors began their careers in the pre-World War II "workers, education" movement of which these schools were a part. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive history of workers' education, in part because primary sources such as the Brookwood Papers were unavailable until recently. Basic questions have remained inadequately answered: Who went to these schools, and how many graduated from them? Who funded and supported the programs? What was …
