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Apr 14, 2019 · Posted: April 14, 2019. After months of planning, a small group of labor leaders, activists and scholars opened a new labor college in St. Paul, Minn., inspired by the belief that working people can build the labor movement of the future, in part, by looking to the past. Classes began April 12 at the New Brookwood Labor College.
Last week a graduating class of 15 completed the two years course at Brookwood Labor College, Katonah, N. Y. This is the first class of educated labor leaders to be graduated.
Classes began April 12 at the New Brookwood Labor College. It’s modeled after a school for labor organizers that operated from 1921-1937 in Katonah, N.Y. That college attracted over 600 students, who went on to lead major union and civil rights campaigns across the country in the decades to come.
New Brookwood Labor College. Up next, we are excited to introduce Spring 2021’s Labor & Film Instructor, Bill Barry. Bill Barry was a union member for 4 years, a union organizer across the country for 20, and taught labor studies at The Community College of Baltimore County-Dundalk (MD), where he created the Labor in the Movies class. Bill ...
When labor strikes, it says to its master: I shall no longer work at your command. When it votes for a party of its own, it says: I shall no longer vote at your command. When it creates its own classes and colleges, it says: I shall no longer think at your command. Labor's challenge to education is the most fundamental of the three. Henry de Man (1921) A growing body of literature is calling ...
New Brookwood Labor College strives to address racial, economic, and social imbalances of power by educating workers into their class. We are creating an inclusive labor movement that uses the power of organization not merely to lift individual workers or worksites, but to create a more just world.
Brookwood and CPLA Upon leaving the ATWU, Muste became the first chairman of the faculty at Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York , where he remained from 1921 to 1933. [19] He cemented his reputation as a recognized leader of the American labor movement.
