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I mean, you're not wrong, but also they would gather in groups and have one person read aloud to the rest. So even if you were poor and illiterate you could sti
by jrpt 7y ago
I mean, you're not wrong, but also they would gather in groups and have one person read aloud to the rest. So even if you were poor and illiterate you could still learn from written works.
- simonsarris 7y agoThere was once the job of the lector, who would be hired to read to employees doing menial tasks all day, like a living audiobook subscription.
- koolba 7y agoThis job still exists: https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2017/10/12/the-people-who-read-to-cuban-cigar-factory-workers https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2017/10/12/the-people...
- stebann 7y agoThat's how the anarchist, modern liberal and socialist ideas spread through Europe. You had this guys doing a manual job while someone was reading for them the classics and the new books on Politics and Philosophy, then you had a powerful and organized working class. Amazing.
- gibybo 7y agoWhy did the factory owners pay for (or at least allow) those sorts of books to be read? Wouldn't they view it as against their interests?
- simonsarris 7y agoI think most lectors were paid by workers pooling some of their money, not by a factory owner.
- stebann 7y agoThe capitalist didn't always know what was going on in their factories. Besides that, workers used to pay somebody to read for them, or they would select someone from their own group.