Title Movable types : roving creative printers of the Victorian world / David Finkelstein

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 196 pages) : illustrations (black and white) Contents Cover; Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; NATIONAL IDENTITY FORMATIONS; UNIONS; THEORIZING TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS; 1: Roving Printers: International Printer Migration, Skills Exchange, and Information Flow, 1830-1914; INTRODUCTION; PRINT TRADE MOVEMENT; ON THE TRAMP; COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS; CYCLES OF CIRCULATION; LOCAL ANCHOR; REGIONAL CIRCULATION; NATIONAL CIRCULATION; INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION; PRINTERS AS SETTLER CAPITALISTS; AUSTRALIAN SKILLS CIRCULATION AND UNION ORGANIZATION JOURNEYMEN IN SOUTH AFRICACANADIAN PRINT TRADE CASE; CONCLUSION; 2: Striking Printers: Print Trade Disputes and the Nine-Hour Movement, 1870-1880; LONDON STRUGGLES; EDINBURGH BATTLES; THE SCOTSMAN STRIKE; VIGILANCE COMMITTEES; THE EDINBURGH GENERAL STRIKE OF 1872-1873; THE NON-UNION FRIENDLY SOCIETY; UNION CANVASSING; WOMEN COMPOSITORS ENTER THE FRAME; THE STRIKE ENDS; TORONTO BATTLES, 1872; TORONTO PRINT WORKERS ACT; VIGILANCE COMMITTEES AND MASTER PRINTER COUNTERMOVES; CANADIAN TRADE UNION AND CRIMINAL LAW ACTS INTRODUCED; AFTERMATH; CONFRONTATION AND UNION ACTION IN DUBLIN, 1877-1878 MASTER PRINTERS RESPONDCOMMUNICATION NETWORKS IN ACTION; PARLIAMENTARY INTERVENTION; THE TIDE EBBS; DUBLIN SUBSIDES; CONCLUSION; 3: Creative Printers: Labour Laureates and the Typographical Trade Press, 1840-1900; MISCELLANY FORMS; PRINTER LAUREATES; EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE; LAUREATIONS; CIVIC CELEBRATIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT; DIALECT FORMS; PROSE NARRATIVES; TRADE PRINT CLASS AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS; SCISSOR AND PASTE/EXCHANGE JOURNALISM; CONCLUSION; Afterword; Appendix A; Glossary of Terms; Bibliography; Index Summary A cultural history from renowned book historian David Finkelstein, who draws on a vast range of international sources to explore how printers interacted and shared trade and cultural identities across the English-speaking world over a significant part of the long 19th century Notes This edition previously issued in print: 2018 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Print version record Subject Printing industry -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century Printing -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century Labor unions -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 19th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. Labor unions Emigration and immigration Printing Printing industry SUBJECT English-speaking countries -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century Subject English-speaking countries Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191865053 0191865052 9780192560476 0192560476

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