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“You know what Victor Hugo say?” asked José Vega Díaz. Thus began a lengthy recitation, the product of decades of labor agitation, listening to Les Miserables, and rolling cigars. He had been asked to explain the influence of el lector (the reader) on the lives of cigar workers. The answer filtered through ninety-five years of experience in Cuba and Florida.“You know what Victor Hugo say? In all the towns, in every place, they have a schoolteacher. And in every town, the schoolteacher is the light. He lights the candle. But in every town they try to blow away the light. The preachers, the priests. That's why they [the church, the owner] don't want the reader. The reader lights the candle. It was a good thing.”

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The Reader and the Worker: Los Lectores and the Culture of Cigarmaking in Cuba and Florida

Deborah Dash Moore. GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv, 352 pp.

The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875–1925. By David M. Emmons, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 443. $25.95.

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The Reader and the Worker: Los Lectores and the Culture of Cigarmaking in Cuba and Florida

Deborah Dash Moore. GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv, 352 pp.

The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875–1925. By David M. Emmons, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Pp. xiii, 443. $25.95.