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Reading & the Working-Class Public Sphere

  • Members of ILGWU Local 62 read together in the union’s comfortable reading room.
  • A Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company advertisement that appeared in the Labor Herald, a magazine associated with the communist movement, early 1920s.
  • Pocket-sized Haldeman-Julius Little Blue Books sold for 5-10 cents each and popular among working-class readers.
  • Chicago’s bohemian Dill Pickle Club welcomed mixed crowds of radicals, artists, and the curious.
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The Pedagogy of the Organized

  • Image from an ILGWU pamphlet.
  • Members of ILGWU Local 62 read together in the union’s comfortable reading room.
  • Course catalog for the Communist-oriented Tom Mooney Labor School in San Francisco, soon to be renamed the California Labor School.
  • Advertisement for the University of Wisconsin Summer School for Workers in Industry, 1930.
  • A lone worker reading by firelight adorned the the title pages of the Workers’ Bookshelf series, a heroic image of self-education in line with American national mythology.