A valuable report on the nearly lost world of workers’ education from the fist conference National Conference on Workers Education held in 1921. For those that wish to recover that necessary world, this holds many examples of efforts by union-affiliated and independent organizations and schools from the movement’s heyday. Many of the reporters’ names will be familiar to readers of the Newsstand as long-time left and labor activists.

Workers Education in the United States: Report of Proceedings First National Conference on Workers’ Education. Workers Education Bureau of America, New York. 1921.

Contents: Acknowledgments, List of Officers Introduction, WORKERS’ EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, United Labor Education Committee by J.M. Budish, Trade Union College of Boston by Estelle Frankfurter, Rochester Labor College by Paul Blanshard, Trade Union College of Greater New York by Anna Riley Hale, Trade Union College of Pittsburgh by P.J. McGrath, Rand School of Social Science by Bertha H. Mailly, Trade Union College of Philadelphia by Frieda S. Miller, Educational Department of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor by Abraham Epstein, Introducing the Pupil to the Class by F. Stacy May, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Workers’ University by Harriet Silverman, International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Educational Department by Fannia M. Cohn, Educational Work of Local 25 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union by Elsie Gluck, New Brookwood by H.B. Brougham, Labor Educational Program and Activities of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America by J.B. Salutsky, II) ORGANIZED LABOR AND WORKERS’ EDUCATION, Value of Workers’ Education by William F. Kehoe, Miners’ Problems and Workers’ Education by John Brophy, Place of the Film in Labor Education by Joseph D. Cannon, The Labor Union as an Educator by Joseph Schlossberg, The Pressing Need of Labor Education by James H. Maurer, III) THE STUDENT AND WORKERS’ EDUCATION, What Subjects of Study Are of Most Practical Value to the Workers by J.R. Copenhaver, The Education the Workers Want by Bernard Engel, The Value of Workers’ Education by Chris Sproger, What I Learned in Workers’ Classes by Sarah Schapiro, Training of Labor Leaders by Harry Russell, Education and Class Struggle by H. Zukoffsky, Democracy in Industry and Education by Frank Fenton, Old and New Education by George W. Snyder, Introducing the Pupil to the Class by Mary Goff, The Engine of Workers’ Education by Harry Hillmer, Working Girl and Labor Education by Jennie Matyos, IV) THE TEACHER AND WORKERS’ EDUCATION, Teacher and Workers’ Education by H.W.L. Dana, Methods of Pedagogy in Workers’ Education by Lloyd M. Crosgrave, Obstacles in the Way of Labor Education by C.J. Hendley, Popularizing Workers’ Education by Paul Blanshard, Methods of Mass Education by Algernon Lee, Psychology and Workers’ Education by Margaret Daniels, How to Teach A Class of Workers by Alexander Fichandler, Class Consciousness As A Factor in Labor Education by J.B. Salutsky, What Can the Workers’ Teacher Expect of His Students? by Broadus Mitchell, APPENDIX: V) REPLIES TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE ON WORKERS’ EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES, VI) THE ORGANIZATION OF A NATIONAL WORKERS EDUCATION BUREAU, Constitution, Aims and Program, Election of Officers. 152 pages.

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