Editing Lector (section)

==Cigar factory lectors==
[[File:A_"Reader"_in_cigar_factory,_Tampa,_Fl.jpg|thumb|288x288px|A lector reader, Tampa January 1909]]
Historically, lectors (known as ''lectores'' in Cuba)<ref name="veconomist" >{{cite news|title=The people who read to Cuban cigar-factory workers|url=https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21730245-hearing-count-monte-cristo-while-rolling-montecristos-people-who-read-cuban|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=12 October 2017}}</ref> or readers in a [[Cigar#Manufacture|cigar factory]] entertained workers by reading books or newspapers aloud, often left-wing publications, paid for by unions or by workers pooling their money. In the United States, the custom was common in the cigar factories of [[Ybor City]] in [[Tampa]] but was discontinued after the [[Ybor City cigar makers' strike of 1931]].<ref>[https://worldhistory.us/american-history/el-lector-the-cigar-factory-reader-of-ybor-city.php El Lector, the Cigar Factory Reader of Ybor City]</ref>

The practice apparently originated in Cuba.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124251060|title=The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations|publisher=[[National Public Radio]]|access-date=10 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308025337/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124251060|archive-date=2010-03-08|url-status=dead}}<!-- The page is still present, but the gallery of Flash images is gone. --></ref><ref>[http://www.mainstreet.com/article/career/employment/20-jobs-have-disappeared?page=3 20 Jobs That Have Disappeared] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100506194926/http://www.mainstreet.com/article/career/employment/20-jobs-have-disappeared?page=3 |date=2010-05-06 }}, By Miranda Marquit, Main Street, thestreet.com, May 3, 2010.</ref> ''Lectores'' were introduced in 1865 to educate and relieve boredom among cigar workers. ''Lectores'', and their reading material, are chosen by the workers of the cigar factory. ''Lectores'' often take on extra-official roles and formerly acted as "spurs to dissent". {{as of|2017}}, [[UNESCO]] is considering designating the profession a form of "[[intangible cultural heritage]]".<ref name="veconomist" />
The ''[[Montecristo (cigar)|Montecristo]]'' brand of cigars derives its name for the fondness that cigar makers had for listening to ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]''.{{cn|date=May 2025}}