Printers and Technology : A History of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union / Elizabeth Faulkner Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Elizabeth Faulkner, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1957]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the technological advances made in printing presses, their effect on employment, and the creation and influence of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

Introduction

Part I. The Setting

1. Five Hundred Years of Printing

2. Technological Unemployment?

3. Critical Problems of Master Printers: Prices and Supervision

4. National Organization of Printing Craftsmen

Part II. Rise of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America

5. Disaffection Within the Typographical Union

6. Birth of the Pressmen's Union

7. The Fight for Independence

8. Pressmen Win Trade Autonomy

Part III. Craft Conflict within the International Printing Pressmen's Union

9. Advent of the Webpress

10. The Ippu Becomes The Ipp&Au

11. Union Status of Webpress Printers

Part IV. Union Action and Employer Responses

12. Development of Union Controls Over Foremen

13. The United Typothetae, the Unions, and the Syracuse Agreement

14. Typothetae, Newspaper Publishers, and Foreman Union Membership

15. The Rise of George Berry - The Fall of the Typothetae

Part V. The Pressmen's Union Comes of Age

16. President Berry's First Five Years: Laying New Foundations

17. Years of Painful Growth, 1913-1940

18. A Mature Printers' Union

Part VI. Technology Threatens Craft Organization

19. The Offset-Lithographers, 1913-1956

20. The Specialty Workers, 1934-1956

21. Today's Organizing Problems

22. A Final Glance

23. Summary and Conclusion

Appendixes

I. Congressional Hearings on Union Democracy

II. The International Playing Card & Label Company

III. Settlement of the Estate of George L. Berry

IV. The Adams and Cylinder Press Printers' Association: Certificate of Incorporation 1884

V. Agreement Between Pressmen and Typothetae, 1903-1907

VI. Conventions and Presidents

VII. Emblem and Labels

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88862-7

OCLC:

1100430912