Global literacy movements sustained the need for accessible books

Evidence

And still more promising than these fomentive imaginings in aesthetics are the brave stoppers in the circulation economy: labor acting militantly in unprecedented ways, from Amazon and Starbucks to educators in West Virginia and Chicago, to academics at Rutgers, Temple, Illinois, and even Columbia and Harvard, to culture workers in the Writers Guild, at the Guggenheim, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the New Museum, New Yorker, New York Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Duke University Press, and Verso Books. Their fights are all the harder because our dominant culture so negates mediations, but even so, these struggles build a base for renewed representations, for another cultural style. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 378

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is the claim that these strikes are ‘unprecedented’ in their breadth supportable, or rhetorical? Worth checking if culture-sector unionization is genuinely novel.