Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Reading : B - Typography & Graphic communication
Chapter title
The workforce
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Oxford University Press
Book title
History of Oxford University Press. Volume II: 1780 to 1896
ISBN of book
9780199543151
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
This book chapter, based on extensive research in the Oxford University Press archives, looks at the working and social lives of employees at the press from the 1780s to the 1890s and how they changed during this period of great technological and societal upheaval. It also discusses the impact on the workforce of the three men who managed the press during that period – Samuel Collingwood, Thomas Combe, and Horace Hart. It is the first study of a major printing firm of the period that not only discusses ordinary workers in general but also uncovers stories about individual pressmen and compositors.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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