A Link between Labour and Learning
The Workers Educational Association in Ontario, 1917-1951
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3982961 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Radforth (0000-0003-4647-7720, York University), Joan Sangster (McMaster University) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 8/9 |
| Pages | 41 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25140072 |
| OpenAlex | W1657810844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This paper traces the rise and fall in Ontario of the Workers Educational Association (WEA), a voluntary association whose main purpose was to organize inexpensive, non-credit night classes taught by university professors for the working class. The Association was an offshoot of the British WEA. ln Ontario the main impetus for establishing an Association in 1918 came from members of Toronto's intellectual elite. One of their aims was to teach labour people responsible behaviour at a time when the labour movement seemed to be gaining influence and becoming more radical. Working-class people within the WEA proved less malleable than the academics had hoped, and the Association soon became a workers' organization, largely controlled by some of its working-class members. It offered many liberal arts courses and, in the late 1930s and 1940s, developed innovative labour education and research programmes which proved of lasting benefit to the labour movement. Although continually threatened by the University of Toronto administration, the WEA failed in the 1950s because certain labour leaders, using Cold War tactics, opposed a labour educational institution that they could not control. Aucune resume disponible
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2017 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |