Luta

Examples

• All

• A Luta set out to document the miserable conditions in which workers in the city actually labored and lived.

  Academic text (2000)

• A Luta published a long column denying any opposition to women's work.

  Academic text (2000)

• A Luta cited one owner whose yearly earnings were fifty-six times those of some of his workers.

  Academic text (2000)

• A Luta located most of the inhumanity and injustice suffered by the workers in the unfamiliar world of the new industrial factories.

  Academic text (2000)

• When A Luta began publication in mid-September, it called the marble workers' strike "an alarm sounding to awaken others."

  Academic text (2000)

• A year later, A Luta bitterly recalled the disillusionment that set in as employers increased hours, cut wages, imposed fines, and "treated workers like dogs in the main factories."

  Academic text (2000)

• While A Luta later defended the strike as a labor victory, it ruefully admitted that many of the workers who took part felt little solidarity and were drawn in only "by the magic current of bombastic words from opportunists."

  Academic text (2000)

• A Luta's editors also challenged the conventional portrait of benevolent paternalistic relations between the city's bosses and workers.

  Academic text (2000)

• The unskilled factory workers missing from elite accounts of the strike materialized in the pages of A Luta, which argued that skilled craftsmen were being reduced to the same level as new unskilled proletarians.

  Academic text (2000)

• Just a week before the general strike, the anarchist organ A Luta drew attention to the exploitation and repression of five young women forced to leave their jobs in a local brush factory, praising their courageous independence and their refusal to allow themselves to be degraded and prostituted by their bosses.

  Academic text (2000)

Surface Forms

Etymology