1. Five Hundred Years of Printing

Chapters in this book

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