Patrick Duffy The Skilled Compositor.

Patrick Duffy The Skilled Compositor, 1850-1914: An Aristocrat among Working Men (Modern Economic and Social History.) Burlington, Vt: Ashgate. 2000 Pp xii, 231 $7995 ISBN 0-7546-0255-9

This is perhaps an especially appropriate time for labor and social historians to take stock of those who worked to put the type, lay-out the pages, and work the presse that have produc works newspapers, magazines, posters, and handbills across the last five hundred years. At common time not so long ago, these printing skills were considered to be in such a manner important that American children

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