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  1. The California Labor School (until 1945 named the Tom Mooney Labor School) was an educational organization in San Francisco from 1942 to 1957. Like the contemporary Jefferson School of Social Science and the New York Workers School, it represented the "transformed and upgraded" successors of the "workers schools" of the 1920s and 1930s.

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  2. In 1944, the school changed its name to the California Labor School and moved to a five-story building in downtown SF, where it enjoyed the support of more than 100 trade unions and many leading figures in the academic, industrial, banking, art and professional worlds.

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  3. Feb 13, 2023 · spotlight. Museums. SF once supported a Marxist labor school. By Max Blue | Special to The Examiner |. Feb 13, 2023 Updated Mar 22, 2024. 1 of 3. The California Labor School was founded...

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  5. The California Labor School is best described by its historical marker that stands at the location of the former school. It reads: An ethnically diverse student body experienced a “Worker's Culture” here through painting, dance, music, theater, labor history and social science courses.

  6. A photograph of David Jenkins, a teacher at the California Labor School, a progressive and labor education institution in the 1940s and 1950s. The image is from the Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University.

  7. History. Resources. Relationships. Places. Subjects. Occupations. Activities. The California Labor School was originally founded as the Tom Mooney School in June of 1942. Its purpose was to train the huge influx of new workers into a wartime economy in trades and in various aspects of labor relations ranging from dues to union representation.

  8. Consisting of materials generated by the California Labor School, spanning the entire life of the School from its founding as the Tom Mooney Labor School in 1942 until its closing by the Internal Revenue Service in 1957, this collection offers researchers a multi-faceted view of the California Labor School and its place in the left-wing ...

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