1. CONFLICT THEORY OF EDUCATION by Bowles and Gintis

2. Or, how did we move from a one room schoolhouse

3. To massive factory-like public schools
5 floors
1 square city block
3,000 students
Several tracks
Impersonal

4. Steps that lead to schools reproducing the division of labor
Move from pre- capitalist to capitalist society
2. Capitalist Control of Mass Schooling
3. Social Relations in School Parallel Relations at Work
4. Schools Reproduce Division of Labor

5. “The increasing importance of schooling as a mechanism for allocating children to positions in the class structure played a major part in legitimizing the structure itself.”