Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry.
[Education]. Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. New York: Central Office for Information, 1929.
Single orange folio leaf, folded twice; three black and white photographs; creased and lightly soiled; else fine.
A brochure announcing Bryn Mawr’s two-month summer program for women industrial workers: “Women Workers! Would you like to go to school?” The program offered young women between the ages of 20 and 35, who had three years of “wage-earning” experience in industry, the opportunity to study Economics, English Literature, Composition, Public Speaking, Science and Psychology. In the midst of an era that sought to educate and improve the lives of women, expressly those who were subjected to harsh and tedious industrial conditions, the idealistic Bryn Mawr program aimed to:
offer young women in industry opportunities to study liberal subjects and to train themselves in clear thinking; to stimulate an active and continued interest in the problems of our economic order; to develop a desire for study as a means of understanding and of enjoyment of life. The school is not committed to any theory or dogma. It is expected that thus the students will gain a truer insight into the problems of industry and feel more vital responsibility for their solution.
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