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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*
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh

Abstract

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Type
Essay Review IV
Copyright
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

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4 Ibid: 513514.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): 276278.Google Scholar

7 Raymond, and Koch, Charlotte, Educational Commune: The Story of Commonwealth College (New York, 1972); Altenbaugh, Richard J. and Paulston, Rolland G., “Work Peoples' College: A Finnish Folk High School in the American Labor College Movement,” Paedagogica Historica, 18 (1978): 237–256; Altenbaugh, Richard J., “Forming the Structure of the New Society Within the Shell of the Old: A Study of Three Labor Colleges and their Contributions to the American Labor Movement,” Diss. University of Pittsburgh, 1980.Google Scholar

8 Koch, Lucin, “Commonwealth College,” Progressive Education, 11 (1934): 301302. 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

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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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16 Ibid. Hanson, Alice, “New Teacher Outlines View of Commonealth,” Fortnightly, 1 Feb. 1926, p. 4.Google Scholar

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18 For further reviews of the Feinberg-Rosemont and Violas works, consult: Library Journal, 100 (May 1, 1975), p. 847; Choice, 12 (Dec. 1975), p. 1348; Contemporary Sociology, 6 (Jan. 1977), p. 23–24; Science Books & Films, 13 (Mar. 1978), p. 200; Educational Studies, 9 (Summer 1978), p. 233; Educational Studies, 9 (Fall 1978), pp. 320–322.Google Scholar