1st Edition
The Skilled Compositor, 1850–1914 An Aristocrat Among Working Men
By Patrick Duffy
Copyright 2000
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The nature and development of the printing trade; The status of the compositor in the hierarchy of labour; Workplace control and issues of gender; Skilled compositors, their trade union leaders and employers; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Patrick Duffy
'Duffy has produced a book of painstaking research, with a remarkable breadth, combining business, labour and social history in fine style.' Business History '... a very useful and convincing study. Both compositors and historians have been well-served.' Albion '... whatever your specialty, you have several good reasons to read Patrick Duffy's study of nineteenth-century compositors... an exceptionally detailed empirical study...' Victorian Studies 'A welcome study of the economic and social identity of British compositors in the second half of the nineteenth century, Duffy's book provides a detailed and sympathetic survey of the workplace experiences of this segment of the printing industry.' Journal of the Printing Historical Society
