SOSC 3210 Chapter Notes -Pacific Lumber Company, Scientific Management, Domestic Worker
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Christina burr, that coming curse the incompetent compositress": class and. Gender relations in the toronto typographical union during the late nineteenth. Century, canadian historical review, 74. 3 (sept. 1993): 344-366. "the toronto printers" union was essentially a successful autonomous operation growing well in its native. Canadian environment" until the american - based international typographical union took control of the local. The printers were remarkably successful in their workplace control struggles with capital, and that the. "mechanization which ravage[s] the integrity of so many artisanal trades was not as brutal in the case of printing. Skill classifications are socially constructed to define men"s work as skilled and women"s work as unskilled or semi - skilled, and bear little relationship to the amount of training or ability required to perform them. The first part of this article examines the strategies formulated by male hand compositors in the toronto.