The Search for Enlightenment: The Working Class and Adult Education in the Twentieth Century

Abstract

Contents Foreword Jack Jones Introduction Brian Simon Part 1. 1909 - 1945 The struggle for hegemony, 1920-1926 Brian Simon The spark of independent working class education Edmund and Ruth Frow The Labour College movement between the wars: national and north-west developments Margaret Cohen Revolutionary education revived: the communist challenge to the Labour Colleges, 1925-1944 Margaret Cohen Bouts of suspicion: political controversies in adult education, 1925-1944 Roger Fieldhouse Part 2. 1945-1988 The demise of the national council of Labour Colleges John McIlroy The triumph of technical training? John McIlroy Trade union education for a change John McIlroy The challenge to working class education Bob Fryer Notes on contributors Index