Labor Age

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'''''Labor Age''''' was a monthly political magazine published by the Labor Publication Society from 1922 to 1933.<ref>{{cite web|title=MIA: History: USA: Publications: Labor Age (1929 until 1933)|url=https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/laborage/|work=Marxists|accessdate=10 July 2016}}</ref>

==History== ''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.<ref>Sam Luebke and Jennifer Luff, "Organizing: A Secret History," ''Labor History'' v. 44, No. 4, 2003, p. 431.</ref>

The ''Socialist Review'' and ''Labor Age'' were the official publications of the League for Industrial Democracy from 1921 to 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000058992|title=Labor Age catalog record|website=HathiTrust Digital Library}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Muste |first=A.J. |url=http://archive.org/details/v21n09-sep-1932-labor-age |title=The Meaning of the Convention |date=September 1932 |publisher=Labor Age |series=No. 9 |volume=21 |page=3}}</ref>

==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 Patrick L. Quinlan.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Contents |journal=Labor Age |publisher=Labor Publication Society |url=https://marxists.catbull.com/history/usa/pubs/laborage/v20n12-dec-1931-Labor%20Age.pdf |date=December 1931 |page= |accessdate=14 November 2020 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112184848/https://marxists.catbull.com/history/usa/pubs/laborage/v20n12-dec-1931-Labor%20Age.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==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. * [https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Labor+Publication+Society%22&page=3&sort=-date Labor Age, 1922-1933, at Internet Archive] *[https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/laborage/index.htm Labor Age, 1922-1933 via the Marxists Internet Archive (full, complete and high resolution)] *[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000058992 Labor Age via HathiTrust Digital Library]

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