David Finkelstein's study is a timely one - to use a printing term, a justified history.

Times Literary Supplement

In three densely argued and fact-filled chapters, David Finkelstein provides an outstanding account of how locally shaped nineteenth-century compositors operated within global contexts... Movable Types is an impressive achievement that will hopefully stimulate extensive scholarly engagement.

Sandro Jung, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society

Unlike most trade union journals which are dominated by detailed discussion of wages and conditions, those described here contain a great deal of literary material

Robert Laurie, Scottish Labour History

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this volume is intended for a wider readership than simply the printing historian. Movable Types is a reflection on the experience of nineteenth-century print workers within a dynamic and changing trade. Finkelstein argues that only by appreciating the infrastructure and mechanisms that underpinned the industry can we understand the formation and structure of local and transnational print economies.

Caroline Archer-Parré, Publishing History

This is a study of international print networks developed across the English-speaking world over a significant part of the long nineteenth century. The first study of its kind, it draws on unique sources from Australasia, North America, South Africa, the British Isles, and Ireland, to explore how printers interacted and shared trade and cultural identities across international boundaries during the period 1830-1914. Morality, mobility, mobilisation, and solidarity were central to how compositors and print trade workers defined themselves during this period. These themes are addressed in case studies on roving printers, striking printers, and creative printers. The case studies explore the cultural values and trade skills transmitted and embedded by such actors, the global networks that enabled print workers to travel across continents in search of work and experience, the trade actions reliant on mobilization and information-sharing across the printing world, and the creative ideas that printers shared through such means as memoirs, poetry, prose, and trade news contributions to print trade journals and other public outlets.
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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 nineteenth century.
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Introduction 1: Roving Printers: International Printer Migration, Skills Exchange, and Information Flow, 1830-1914 2: Striking Printers: Print Trade Disputes and the Nine Hour Movement, 1870-1880 3: Creative Printers: Labour Laureates and the Typographical Trade Press, 1840-1900 Afterword
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Offers a unique, interdisciplinary study of the development of print networks across the Anglophone world in the Victorian period Revises current views of print trade and book history, refocusing attention on transnational connections Outlines how trade unions participated in a transnational typographical communication network, supporting mobility, mobilisation, migration and creativity amongst print workers Draws on a vast range of sources from Australasia, North America, South Africa, the British Isles, and Ireland
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David Finkelstein was Head of the Centre for Open Learning at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to that he was Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee. A specialist print culture studies and media history, he is author of works such as The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (2002), An Introduction to Book History (2006), and Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805-1930 (2006), the latter of which was awarded the Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize for its contribution to the study of periodical press history.
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Offers a unique, interdisciplinary study of the development of print networks across the Anglophone world in the Victorian period Revises current views of print trade and book history, refocusing attention on transnational connections Outlines how trade unions participated in a transnational typographical communication network, supporting mobility, mobilisation, migration and creativity amongst print workers Draws on a vast range of sources from Australasia, North America, South Africa, the British Isles, and Ireland
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198826026
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
466 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
208

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David Finkelstein was Head of the Centre for Open Learning at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to that he was Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Dundee. A specialist print culture studies and media history, he is author of works such as The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (2002), An Introduction to Book History (2006), and Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805-1930 (2006), the latter of which was awarded the Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize for its contribution to the study of periodical press history.