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Rehearsing Revolutions : The Labor Drama Experiment and Radical Activism in the Early Twentieth Century /

"Between the world wars, several labor colleges sprouted up across the U.S. These schools, funded by unions, sought to provide members with adult education while also indoctrinating them into the cause. As Mary McAvoy reveals, a big part of that learning experience centered on the schools'...

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Autor principal: McAvoy, Mary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The labor drama experiment -- Performance from the ranks : the advent of labor drama at Portland Labor College, 1922/25 -- The variegated shoots : Hazel MacKaye and the advent of labor dramatics at Brookwood Labor College, 1925/26 -- Of untold possibilities : Hollace Ransdell and the ladies of Southern labor dramatics, 1928/36 -- Something very different : Southern labor drama at Highlander Folk School, 1934/40 -- Lee Hays, a preaching hillbilly, and the FBI : the last gasps of labor drama at Commonwealth Labor College, 1932/39 -- Conclusion: Labor drama's legacies. 
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