Abstract

Workers' Education in the United States

The article focuses on the workers' education in the U.S. Spencer Miller, secretary of the Workers' Education Bureau of America, estimates that during the past season there were 25,000 men and women in this country in attendance upon classes under working- class auspices. Sixty per cent of the American Federation of Labor is in organizations that have affiliated themselves with the Workers' Education Bureau. The Workers' Education Bureau admits to affiliation only enterprises definitely controlled by trade unions or cooperative societies. In a considerable number of cases workers' classes avail themselves of public-school or church buildings where this does not involve any control over policy or freedom of teaching.