Labor Age

Labor Age was a monthly political magazine published from 1922 to 1933.[1] The publisher was by the Labor Publication Society.[1]

Labor Age magazine, launched in 1921, was closely connected with the personality of A. J. Muste of Brookwood Labor College.

History

Establishment

Labor Age succeeded the Socialist Review, journal of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. It advocated industrial unionism, economic planning, and workers' education (especially the activities of Brookwood Labor College). It reported extensively on innovative tactics for organizing nonunion workers in mass production industries, identifying tactics that would become standard procedure for union organizers in the 1930s and 1940s.[2]

The Socialist Review and Labor Age were the official publications of the League for Industrial Democracy from 1921–1929. In May 1929, the editors of Labor Age helped to form the Conference for Progressive Labor Action (CPLA) in order to counter what they considered growing pro-business tendencies in the American Federation of Labor.[3]

Demise

In 1932, the CPLA voted to supplement the monthly Labor Age with a daily newspaper, called Labor Action, but that was never realized. Labor Age ceased publication after the February-March 1933 issue.

Contributors

Important figures associated with Labor Age were A. J. Muste, James Maurer, Harry W. Laidler, Fannia Cohn, and Louis Budenz. Other contributors of the December 1931 issue included: Judson King, Bruce Crawford, Benjamin Mandel, Sam Bakely, J.B. Matthews, Ludwig Lore, David J. Saposs, and P atrick L. Quinlan.[4]

References

"MIA: History: USA: Publications: Labor Age (1929 until 1933)". Marxists. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
Sam Luebke and Jennifer Luff, "Organizing: A Secret History," Labor History v. 44, No. 4, 2003, p. 431.
"Labor Age catalog record". Hathi Trust Digital Library.
"Contents" (PDF). Labor Age. Labor Publication Society, Inc. December 1931. Retrieved 14 November 2020.

Sources

Jon Bloom and Paul Buhle, "Intercollegiate Socialist Society and Successors," in Encyclopedia of the American Left. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990; pp. 362–363.
Labor Age via the Marxists Internet Archive (full, complete and high resolution): https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/laborage/index.htm
Labor Age via HathiTrust Digital Library: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000058992

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[mar-1] "MIA: History: USA: Publications: Labor Age (1929 until 1933)". Marxists. Retrieved 10 July 2016.

[2] Sam Luebke and Jennifer Luff, "Organizing: A Secret History," Labor History v. 44, No. 4, 2003, p. 431.

[3] "Labor Age catalog record". Hathi Trust Digital Library.

[4] "Contents" (PDF). Labor Age. Labor Publication Society, Inc. December 1931. Retrieved 14 November 2020.