The Marxist magazine New Masses remarked on the strangeness of [the first publishing strike]. Publishing, they wrote, was “like horse-breeding, a snob-and-specialty industry.” Unionization had been rare in the industry because it cultivated “an aura of gentility which leads to self-deception on the part of many workers in it.” And the costs of self-deception, the magazine argued, were high: “the majority of office workers are miserably paid and . . . unpaid overtime work is general.” Nikil Saval introduces our Labor & Letters symposium, on magazines, editing, writing, and work: https://nplusonemag/issue-21/labor-letters/introduction/
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