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The Story of Workers' Education
Lilienthal, David E. | February 3, 1926 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Workers' Education in England and the United States," by author Margaret T. Hodgen. Hodgen begins her story of workers' education in the United States with a closely packed statement of the social and economic conditions which gave rise to the Working Men's Party in 1828, a labor organization which "became the chief instrument of the founding of the American public-school system." But this accomplishment does not mark the beginning of genuine workers' education, for by means of the public schools the workers of the thirties "proposed to educate themselves not for working-class activity but for admission to middle-class opportunity."

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BOOKS; EMPLOYEES -- Education; AUTHORS; AUTHORSHIP; HODGEN, Margaret T.; PUBLIC schools
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