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Preferred term
American labor colleges
Definition
- The independent labor colleges represented the most radical form of workers' education in the early twentieth century. Work People's College (1903–1941) located in Duluth, Minnesota; Commonwealth College (1925–1939) in Mena, Arkansas; and Brookwood Labor College (1921–1941) in Westchester County, New York, earned the most notoriety. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; American Labor Colleges]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/American_labor_colleges
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