The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832-1972 : : A Case Study of Foreign Domination /

The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832-1972 : : A Case Study of Foreign Domination / / Sally Zerker.

A meeting of twenty-four journeymen printers at the York Hotel in Toronto in 1832 marked the birth of Canada’s earliest and still continuing labour organization. This case study of the printers of Toronto traces the development of the union which began as the Toronto Typographical Society. Through a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Zerker, Sally,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1982
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Part One. The Founding of a Canadian Union
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The York Typographical Society, 1832-1837
  • 3. Consolidation
  • Part Two. Growth and Affiliation
  • 4. The international connection
  • 5. An autonomous period
  • Part Three. ITU Centralization
  • 6. The expansion of ITU power and formalization of negotiations
  • 7. Local 91 and the allied trades
  • Part Four. The ITU in Control
  • 8. The ITU short-hour movement
  • 9. The forty-four-hour printers7 strike
  • 10. The depression years
  • 11. Prelude to the 1960s
  • 12. Technology overtakes the TTU
  • 13. A sad finale
  • 14. Conclusion
  • Appendix: Growth of the TTU
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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