Printers and Technology: A History of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union

Elizabeth Faulkner Baker

Published by Columbia University Press 1957

Printers and Technology

A History of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union

Elizabeth Faulkner Baker

https://doi.org/10.7312/bake92420

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Part I. The Setting
1. Five Hundred Years of Printing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Technological Unemployment? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. Critical Problems of Master Printers: Prices and Supervision Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4. National Organization of Printing Craftsmen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Part II. Rise of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union of North America
5. Disaffection Within the Typographical Union Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
6. Birth of the Pressmen’s Union Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
7. The Fight for Independence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
8. Pressmen Win Trade Autonomy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Part III. Craft Conflict within the International Printing Pressmen’s Union
9. Advent of the Webpress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
10. The Ippu Becomes The Ipp&Au Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
11. Union Status of Webpress Printers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part IV. Union Action and Employer Responses
12. Development of Union Controls Over Foremen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
13. The United Typothetae, the Unions, and the Syracuse Agreement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
14. Typothetae, Newspaper Publishers, and Foreman Union Membership Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
15. The Rise of George Berry – The Fall of the Typothetae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
Part V. The Pressmen’s Union Comes of Age
16. President Berry’s First Five Years: Laying New Foundations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
17. Years of Painful Growth, 1913–1940 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
18. A Mature Printers’ Union Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Part VI. Technology Threatens Craft Organization
19. The Offset-Lithographers, 1913–1956 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
20. The Specialty Workers, 1934–1956 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
21. Today’s Organizing Problems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
22. A Final Glance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	464
23. Summary and Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
Appendixes
I. Congressional Hearings on Union Democracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
II. The International Playing Card & Label Company Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	502
III. Settlement of the Estate of George L. Berry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	510
IV. The Adams and Cylinder Press Printers’ Association: Certificate of Incorporation 1884 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	514
V. Agreement Between Pressmen and Typothetae, 1903–1907 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	516
VI. Conventions and Presidents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	520
VII. Emblem and Labels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	521
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	523
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Copyright year: 1957
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 546

eBook

Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9780231888622