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The Skilled Compositor, 1850-1914 - An Aristocrat Among Working Men (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Skilled Compositor, 1850-1914 - An Aristocrat Among Working Men (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Modern Economic and Social History
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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.
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