Th e Adult Education Committee envisioned the spread of critical economic knowledge to the rural areas. It remarked: "it is certain that with the growth of trade unionism amongst agricultural workers, there will be a demand for economic history and economics from the point of view of the workers' experience and interests" (ibid., 146). Th is vision of cultural empowerment gave rise to ambitious schemes of public transport and urban planning, for example to build a Village Institute- "a living nucleus of communal activity" that included "a hall large enough for dances, cinema shows, concerts, plays, public lectures, and exhibitions," as well as "a public library and local museum" (ibid.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 304