The Promotion and Maintenance of Workers’ Education: Third Annual Conference of Teachers in Workers’ Education. Brookwood Labor College, Katonah, New York. 1926.

Full of insights and experiments in workers education, from the use of drama and modern psychology, to keeping interest and building union and financial support with activists like Teresa Wolfson, A.J. Muste, Tom Tippet, Bertram Wolfe, Henry Linville, V.F. Calverton, Amy Hewes, and Algernon Lee among others.

The Promotion and Maintenance of Workers’ Education: Third Annual Conference of Teachers in Workers’ Education. Brookwood Labor College, Katonah, New York. 1926.

Contents: Preface, The Problem of Opening the Field by A. Lefkowitz, The Problem of Perpetuating Interest by Theresa Wolfson, Discussion, The Gaining of Union Support by Clinton S. Golden, The Development of a Workers’ Demand by L.M. Crosgrave, Summer Institutes as a Promotion Measure by A.J. Muste, Discussion, The Social Significance of Dramatics by A.W. Calhoun, Our Experiment in Dramatics at Brookwood by Hazel MacKaye, The Retention of Support-How Not to Do It by Mary C. Dent, Discussion by Ellen Kennan, How to Sustain Interest by Tom Tippet, Discussion by Paul W. Fuller, Workshop Economics as Taught in Philadelphia by B.W. Barkas, Discussion, How to Build on the Worker’s Experience by Amy Hewes, Discussion by B.W. Barkasm What Else Besides the Social Sciences by Bertram Wolfe, Discussion, What Workers’ Education Can Learn from Experimental Schools by Henry Linville, The Remaking of the Teacher by Sylvia Kopald, Discussion by Algernon Lee, Contributions of Modern Psychology by Harrison Harley, Discussion by V.F. Calverton, How Labor Education is Developed and Sustained in Europe, Discussion by Gunnar Hirdmann, Special Session on Financial Support. 105 pages.

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