Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades 1778-1815

By Mark A. Lause

Book Overview

Earlier historians have generally believed that this period in American history lacked significant trade union activity, but Lause demonstrates that post-Revolutionary printers not only formed their own local trade associations, but were part of a larger network that connected printers, cobblers, tailors, and other skilled workers into associations

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557281858
• ISBN13: 9781557281852
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 9.4"