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‘Our children are being trained like dogs and ponies:’ Schooling, Social Control, and the Working Class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Richard J. Altenbaugh
Richard J. Altenbaugh*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , Summer 1981 , pp. 213 - 222
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Copyright © 1981 by History of Education Society 

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Notes

1 See, for example, Spring, Joel, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State (Boston, 1972); Karier, Clarence J., Violas, Paul, and Spring, Joel, Roots of Crisis: American Education in the Twentieth Century (Chicago, 1973); Karier, Clarence J., Shaping the American Educational State: 1900 to the Present (New York, 1975).Google Scholar

2 Also see McBride, Paul W., “The Co-op Industrial Education Experience: 1900–1917,” History of Educational Quarterly, 14 (Summer 1974): 209–21.Google Scholar

3 Montgomery, David, “The ‘New Unionism’ and the Transformation of Workers' Consciousness in America: 1909–1922,” Journal of Social History, 1 (Summer 1974): 509–529.Google Scholar

4 Ibid: 513–514.Google Scholar

5 Ibid: 514, 517–519, 522.Google Scholar

6 Maurer, James H., “Labor's Demand for its Own Schools,” Nation, 115 (Sept. 1922): 276–278.Google Scholar

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8 Koch, Lucin, “Commonwealth College,” Progressive Education, 11 (1934): 301–302. Parts of this section were presented in a paper by Altenbaugh, Richard J., “The Relationship of Work and Education in the American Labor College Movement of the 1920's and 1930's.” History of Education Society Annual Meeting. October, 1978. Chicago, Illinois.Google Scholar

9 “Workers Study How To Do It,” Brookwood Review (Feb. 1932): 4.Google Scholar

10 Brookwood Bulletin and Announcement of Courses for 1932/33 (Katonah, New York: Brookwood Labor College, 1932); “Courses of Study and Entrance Requirements,” Commonwealth College Fortnightly, 1 Jan. 1930, p. 2. Hereafter cites as Fortnightly .Google Scholar

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