One of several pseudo “colleges” established by American labor unions and the Socialist Party during the years between World Wars I and II. Modeled after England’s Workingmen’s College in London, Brookwood was a noncredit institution organized in Katonah, New York, about 50 miles north of New York City, by Socialist leaders. The school offered a limited curriculum in social history and philosophy as well as practical classes in union organizing, striking and other labor tactics. The college also recruited writers and actors to produce prolabor dramatic and literary works. The college closed in 1937.