Power from the Past

Memory Work Research Initiative

Library of the Pacific Coast Labor School

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Scan of an aged photograph shows a library full of people studying at large tables with books along the wall in the background. A sign on one table reads "Workers Education." Most of the people working and studying in the room are women.

Worker-students in the library of the Pacific Coast Labor School. Launched in 1933 as the Western School for Workers and later renamed, the school was a forerunner of University of California labor education programs.