  A further example can be found in the thought of Luisa Capetillo (1879–1922), which is rooted in her participation in labor movements in Puerto Rico and the United States during her lifetime. As a cigar factory reader, she was employed by the workers and functioned as an intellectual and cultural intermediary by reading workers everything from news to political theory. Capetillo became a reader at a time when forty percent of the tobacco workers and eighty-seven percent of the agricultural work force of Puerto Rico were illiterate (Ramos 1992: 14). However, the presence of readers, like Capetillo, made the tobacco labor force one of the most socially conscious (Ramos 1992: 21). Her activism drew intellectual support from European anarchist philosophy that traveled to Puerto Rico through translations of authors like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Diderot, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Marx, and Nietzsche (Ramos 1992: 27). Capetillo made a mark on the Puerto Rican labor movement, but she became a transnational migrant as she was driven out of Puerto Rico by a government crackdown on anarchists (Ruiz 2016: 3). In her short life of forty-two years she would come to reside in New York City, Ybor City, and La Habana as she continued her activism by organizing labor strikes, arguing against the institution of marriage, engaging in stylized resistance by wearing men’s clothing, and publishing four books (Ramos 1992: 66). Capetillo’s most important contribution was producing ideas rooted in a workers’ rights movement that moved across nations and was itself inspired by the travel of ideas.