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• catalog abstract ""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 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 aspect of the compositors' experience, with a chapter devoted to women's role in the printing trade. Finally, the formation, functions and development of relevant trade 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12283708.
• catalog coverage "Great Britain Social conditions 19th century.".
• catalog coverage "Great Britain Social conditions 20th century.".
• catalog created "c2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "c2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
• catalog description ""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 rank and file membership?"".
• catalog 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."".
• catalog description ""Starting with an overview of the nature, growth and development of the trade, the book goes on to examine the occupational and social aspect of the compositors' experience, with a chapter devoted to women's role in the printing trade. Finally, the formation, functions and development of relevant trade 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. The nature and development of the printing trade -- 3. The status of the compositor in the hierarchy of labour -- 4. Workplace control and issues of gender -- 5. Skilled compositors, their trade union leaders and employers -- 6. Conclusions.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-228) and index.".
• catalog extent "xii, 231 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Skilled compositor, 1850-1914.".
• catalog identifier "0754602559 (acid-free paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Skilled compositor, 1850-1914.".
• catalog isPartOf "Modern economic and social history series".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "c2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub.,".
• catalog relation "Skilled compositor, 1850-1914.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain Social conditions 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain Social conditions 20th century.".
• catalog spatial "Great Britain".
• catalog subject "686.2/2/0941 21".
• catalog subject "Type and type-founding Great Britain History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Type and type-founding Great Britain History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Typographers Great Britain History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Typographers Great Britain History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Z250.A2 S58 2000".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. The nature and development of the printing trade -- 3. The status of the compositor in the hierarchy of labour -- 4. Workplace control and issues of gender -- 5. Skilled compositors, their trade union leaders and employers -- 6. Conclusions.".
• catalog title "The skilled compositor, 1850-1914 : an aristocrat among working men / Patrick Duffy.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".