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
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