Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades 1778-1815
Lause, Mark
ISBN 10: 1557281858 ISBN 13: 9781557281852
Published by University of Arkansas Press, 1991
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Louse argues that the printers, who organized to combat their immediate concerns, were also part of a larger network connecting other skilled workers into associations that not only supported their societies but also helped to shape their ideology.
Synopsis: Earlier historians have generally believed that this period in American history lacked significant trade union activity, but Lause demonstrates that post-Revolutionary printers not only formed their own local trade associations, but were part of a larger network that connected printers, cobblers, tailors, and other skilled workers into associations
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Title: Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to ...
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
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