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Sinopsis

Where labor, work practices, and prices collide in the printing world Discover the forces shaping eight-hour proposals and higher wages, and how printers, publishers, and workers think about fairness, profit, and survival.

This edition examines how changes in hours and pay affect different kinds of printers, from small shops to large offices. It explains the rival interests of employers and employees and what might change the balance in a tough, competitive market.


  • How costs and profits vary across book printing, newspaper work, and job offices

  • Why workers push for higher pay and shorter hours, and how publishers respond

  • The role of competition, both local and international, in shaping wages

  • Concrete questions asked to printers and publishers about labor and pricing



Ideal for readers of historical labor debates, trade practices, and the evolution of workplace regulations in the printing industry.

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Excerpt from The State of the Trade: Observations on Eight Hours and Higher Prices

ON the 11th June, 1872, the New York Typographical Union made an application to the employing book and job printers of this city for a conference as to the expediency of establishing eight hours as a day's work (at the rate of $20 per week of forty-eight hours) and an advance of twenty per cent. On the present prices of piece-work.' This application was made in strict conformity with the agreement made between employers and employed in April, 1869, by which each party bound itself to confer with the other concerning all matters of disagreement, and in case of irreconcilabledifference, to give thirty days' notice of any determined change of prices or rules. The spirit of this application was as courteous as its form was equitable.

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