The rise and fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832-1972 : a case study of foreign domination /
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The rise and fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832-1972 : a case study of foreign domination /

A meeting of twenty-four journeymen printers at the York Hotel in Toronto in 1832 marked the birth of Canada's earliest and still continuing labour organization. This case study of the printers of Toronto traces the development of the union which began as the Toronto Typographical Society. Thro...

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Main Author: Zerker, Sally F. (Sally Friedberg), 1928-
Corporate Author: JSTOR
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1982.
Subjects:
Toronto Typographical Union > History.
International Typographical Union.
Printing industry > Employees > Labor unions > Ontario > Toronto > History.
Printing industry > Ontario > Toronto > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The York Typographical Society, 1832-1837
  • 3. Consolidation
  • 4. The international connection
  • 5. An autonomous period
  • 6. The expansion of ITU power and formalization of negotiations
  • 7. Local 91 and the allied trades
  • 8. The ITU short-hour movement
  • 9. The forty-four-hour printers7 strike
  • 10. The depression years
  • 11. Prelude to the 1960s
  • 12. Technology overtakes the TTU
  • 13. A sad finale
  • 14. Conclusion
  • Appendix: Growth of the TTU
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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