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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Baker, Elizabeth Faulkner,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1957]; ©1957
• Year of Publication: 1957
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of 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