Workers’ education has highlighted the importance of culture and education in various ways. Within the Nordic workers’ education, it has been often highlighted that culture and education are what make a life worth living. For example, in Finland, workers’ education promoted the outlook that one does not live “by bread ...
(Show more)Workers’ education has highlighted the importance of culture and education in various ways. Within the Nordic workers’ education, it has been often highlighted that culture and education are what make a life worth living. For example, in Finland, workers’ education promoted the outlook that one does not live “by bread alone”: education and culture were also needed to lead a full life.
With this in mind, the Finnish Workers’ Educational Association implemented various projects together with other organizations of the labor movement, to increase culture and education in homes, workplaces and leisure time activities of the workers. The proposed paper studies different examples of these projects during the years 1945–1970. Special focus is put to the material aspects of culture and education: what were the practices, symbols and physical/intangible objects via what education and culture were to be increased in the daily life of the working-class people.
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