In its first decade, Social Text published work on labor and class that fell within the journal's broader project to define the contours of a Marxist cultural critique, a cultural Marxism. This offered a forum for studies on labor's representation in popular culture alongside conventional Marxist concerns with the conditions of work, relations of production, the reproduction of class strata (in mostly sociological terms), and class consciousness (via ideological analyses à la Frankfurt School, Louis Althusser, British cultural studies, etc.). Commodification was a key context -- in particular, the role of commodity fetishism in erasing labor and labor practices from public consciousness in parallel to the decline of the labor movement. The journal had an abiding interest in the place of labor and the labor movement within the ongoing development of Marxism (see especially Stanley Aronowitz in ST 2, 1979; 9/10, 1984; 12, 1985; and 18, 1987). There was also new leftish interest in spontaneous and unruly quotidian modes of resistance (in the West), which stood at variance with the old left view of organized labor at the center of historical change (for example, Michel de Certeau et al., ST 3, 1980). This made the journal a natural home for cultural studies (homegrown and British) as a transitional, at the time, mode of analysis of class/labor and the intersections of class, gender, race, and nation (see Paul Willis and Philip Corrigan, ST 7, 1983). Meanwhile, attention also turned to workers and activism in the third world and Eastern Europe -- though not yet framed as aspects of a new international division of labor (NIDL). Historical work continued on the labor movement, transformations in relations of production, labor market, skilling and deskilling, and so on. By the end of its first decade, as the journal became more interested in questions of "multinationalism" (later globalization), the "crises" of Marxism, and the end of the Soviet Union, there was a more explicit uptake of interest in the NIDL.