In The Caseroom, Edinburgh is at the heart of Britain's print
industry and St Leonards and Canonmills ring with the clamour of
print works. Determined to follow her father and older brothers
into the print trade, Iza Ross enters the caseroom of Ballantynes'
Pauls works in Causewayside as a callow thirteen-year old.Set in
the thick of workers' lives in Edinburgh's thriving print industry,
The Caseroom follows Iza into the arcane world of the caseroom
where she learns the intricacies of a highly-skilled trade. As one
of some 800 Edinburgh women who for a few decades did so, she
becomes a hand-typesetter, work that had been, and was to become
once more, a male preserve.Despite hostility to the cheap labour
that women represent, Iza persists in work that allows her to feed
her imagination on books. But holding on to her trade means
hardening herself to the needs of those she loves. And when the
men's union moves to eliminate women from the caseroom and a We
Women movement forms to oppose them, there is no middle ground.
Torn between class and gender loyalties and embroiled in a bitter
labour dispute, Iza must choose sides.
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