[lbo-talk] literacy

[mike larkin]

--- Doug HeHenwooddhdhenwoodapanixom> wrote:
> After we were on a panel together at CUCUNY couple
> of weeks ago, 
> Giovanni ArArrighiold me that U.S. workers were more
> literate a 
> century ago than today. I found that very hard to
> believe, but I 
> dididn have the facts to make the argument. Does
> anyone here know 
> about this?
> 
> Doug

No, but I remember a piece by Vidal in The New York
Review a while back about reading habits prpreV. He
made a persuasive case that the late 19-early 20th
century was a golden age of popular literacy, as
evidenced by the overall high quality of stuff that
appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other
zizinesMaybe it's a question of how you define
literacy. More people can read, but maybe not at a
very high level. Just a guess.  

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