Tag: IRLE history
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“To build a broad-based movement for social and economic justice”
Read more: “To build a broad-based movement for social and economic justice”In August 2000, the Democratic National Committee held their convention at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. The convention came amidst grassroots insurgency and popular discontent with the Clinton-era model of neoliberal governance at home and abroad. In November 1999, labor unions, environmentalists, faith leaders, and students mobilized in Seattle at the World Trade […]
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Pacific Coast School for Workers
Read more: Pacific Coast School for WorkersBetween 1933 and 1945, the University of California collaborated with California Department of Education and the California Federation of Labor to offer workers’ education courses through the University Extension. Known first as the Western Summer School for Workers, then as the Pacific Coast School for Workers, and finally as the Pacific Coast Labor School, the […]
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The “Student-Industrial Movement” of the 1920s
Read more: The “Student-Industrial Movement” of the 1920sStudent-Industrial Movement Proves Worth I first became acquainted with the idea of the student-industrial movement in 1922 at a weekend party conducted by the Young Women’s Christian Association. At that time I was not much impressed with its importance, and wished I would not be invited again; however, since then I have learned to appreciate […]