"Labor's Mind uses diaries and personal correspondence, labor college records, and a range of print and visual media to recover this social history of the working class mind. Networks of working-class learners and their middle-class allies formed nothing less than a shadow labor…
Introduction -- "A little avenue to self-mastery": the social world of working-class readers -- "All sorts of wild, impassioned talk": open forums and the working-class public sphere -- "To see and hear things that have always been there": labor's pedagogy of the organized -- Br…
Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America's sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. Work…
