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Brookwood Labor College Pamphlets and Documents

 Collection
Identifier: 5455

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of pamphlets, ephemeral printed materials, and other printed documents from the Brookwood Labor College.

Materials include bulletins and announcements of courses (1927-1933); program agenda for the Brookwood Railroad Labor Institute (1926); statements and reports pertaining to the American Federation of Labor's withdrawal of support for the Brookwood program; and pamphlets and reports pertaining to workers' education, programs at Brookwood, union administration, textile and mining industries, protective labor legislation, union organizing, labor songs, and the Railroad Labor Institute.

The collection is arranged alphabetically by title.

Dates

  • 1933-1936

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

The Brookwood Labor College, 1920-1938, was a two year residential school for workers, affiliated with the American Labor Education Service and held at Katonah, N.Y.

The faculty, organized as the Brookwood Labor College (Local 189 of the American Federation of Teachers, American Federation of Labor) consisted of executives and specialists from various unions, government agencies, and faculty of universities and colleges. The curriculum included courses in journalism, English, economics, science, dramatics, and various labor related issues and topics.

Extent

0.5 cubic feet

Abstract

Pamphlets and documents concerning Brookwood Labor College programs, the school's relations with the American Federation of Labor and other union issues. Mostly ephemeral printed materials

Quantity:

0.5 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Pamphlets, records (documents).

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
Compiled by:
R. Miles, June 14, 2013
EAD encoding:
Kheel Staff, March 13, 2019
Title
Brookwood Labor College Pamphlets and Documents
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by R. Miles
Date
March 13, 2019
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853