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A History of the Cigar Factory Reader
出版University of Texas Press, 2010-02-15
主題History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Latin America / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Industries / ManufacturingSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / General
ISBN02927217579780292721753
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LAL-DAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"El Lector will find a broad and appreciative audience and will become a landmark in the study of Cuban and Latin American cultures."
—Roberto González Echevarría, Yale University
The practice of reading aloud has a long history, And The tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers' culture. InEl Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftly traces the evolution of the reader from nineteenth-century Cuba To The present and its eventual dissemination to Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In interviews with present-day and retired readers, she records testimonies that otherwise would have been lost forever, creating a valuable archive for future historians.
Through a close examination of journals, newspapers, and personal interviews, Tinajero relates how the reading was organized, how the readers and readings were selected, and how the process affected the relationship between workers and factory owners. Because of the reader, cigar factory workers were far more cultured and in touch with the political currents of the day than other workers. But it was not only the reading material, which provided political and literary information that yielded self-education, that influenced the workers; the act of being read to increased the discipline and timing of the artisan's job.