Author and historian Connie Goddard will host a book signing and get together at the Shrewsbury Historical Society on Thursday, October 24 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Goddard will highlight her new book. Learning for Work: How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity, published by University of Illinois Press.
Learning for Work is a history of industrial education in the Progressive Era, a history shaped as much by now-unknown students and teachers as by more famous reformers and intellectuals. In recovering the story of the Chicago Manual Training School and its offshoots, Goddard also brings into focus debates over the relationships between education, work, opportunity, and social mobility in a nation structured, then as now, by hierarchies of race and class.
Wine and light refreshments will be offered at the event. Interested persons are urged to make reservations by e-mailing schreiberJerald@gmail.com or calling 773-706-3272.
The Historical Society is located at 419 Sycamore Avenue, Shrewsbury.
Goddard has written two other books, both about Chicago.
