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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Typographical Circular
Author: Movable Types
Author: David FinkelsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198826028
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
This is a study of international print networks developed across the English-speaking world over a significant part of the long nineteenth century. The first study of its kind, it draws on unique sources from Australasia, North America, South Africa, the British Isles, and Ireland, to explore how printers interacted and shared trade and cultural identities across international boundaries during the period 1830-1914. Morality, mobility, mobilisation, and solidarity were central to how compositors and print trade workers defined themselves during this period. These themes are addressed in case studies on roving printers, striking printers, and creative printers. The case studies explore the cultural values and trade skills transmitted and embedded by such actors, the global networks that enabled print workers to travel across continents in search of work and experience, the trade actions reliant on mobilization and information-sharing across the printing world, and the creative ideas that printers shared through such means as memoirs, poetry, prose, and trade news contributions to print trade journals and other public outlets.
The Typographical Journal
Author: Typographical Journal
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
Vols. 13- include the annual supplements "Reports of officers and proceedings of the session of the International Typographical Union."
The Printers' Journal and Typographical Magazine
Author: A Bibliography of Printing with Notes & Illustrations
Author: E. C. BigmoreThe Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Printers' Circular
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Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Skilled Compositor, 1850–1914
Author: Patrick DuffyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351881833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
For the first time since its invention over 500 years ago, the print medium is being challenged as the primary means of recording and communicating ideas. Indeed, within the printing industry itself the advent of digital technology has rendered the craft of hand setting metal type obsolete - the days of the skilled compositor are now at an end. Patrick Duffy’s work sets out to examine the experiences of the skilled compositor in the period 1850 to 1914. Focusing primarily on the workplace and the workplace institutions, it aims to explore issues of control, co-operation and conflict in order to determine if the compositor did, as many labour historians claim, belong to an aristocracy of labour. Drawing on a wide range of source material from trade society minutes to Parliamentary Papers, the author explores the diversity of experience that compositors had in the workplace and the uneven patterns of change that the trade experienced. The study throws light on some of the issues raised by these changes: what part did ancient craft traditions play in the maintenance of control in the workplace? Why were women excluded from this particular work when they were accepted in most other parts of the trade? To what extent did trade society officials represent the aspirations of the rank and file membership? Starting with an overview of the nature, growth and development of the trade, the book goes on to examine the occupational and social aspects of the compositors' experience, with a chapter devoted to women's role in the printing trade. Finally, the formation, functions and development of relevant trades unions and employers' associations is discussed. This insightful analysis of the experience of the skilled compositor provides a valuable case study for labour historians at the same time furthering our understanding of a somewhat neglected aspect of printing history.
Author: Thomas Hailing