Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry
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October 13, 2001[1]
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Bryn Mawr Campus, Morris Ave. at Yarrow St., Bryn Mawr
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The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (1921–1938) was a residential summer school program that brought approximately 100 young working women—mostly factory workers with minimal education—to the Bryn Mawr College campus, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, each year for eight weeks of liberal arts study. As part of the workers' education movement of the 1920s and 30s, the experimental program was unique in several ways. It was the first program of its kind for women in the United States; it was conceived, directed, and largely taught by women; and it was hosted by a women's college.
Originally the brainchild of Bryn Mawr president M. Carey Thomas, the program was funded by philanthropists such as John D. Rockefeller Jr. and taught by distinguished faculty drawn from local institutions. Under the direction of Hilda Worthington Smith it evolved into a successful workers' education program that served as the model for several others. Many of the students, who came from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds and worked in a variety of industries, went on to become union leaders. For political reasons, the program fell out of favor with the college board of trustees and was terminated in 1938.
The school is the subject of a 1985 documentary by Suzanne Bauman and Rita Heller, The Women of Summer.
^"PHMC Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry". PHMC Historical Markers. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
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