Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Art Preservative: The Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Printing Trades
One: Birds of Passage: The Emergence of the Wage-Earning Printer
Two: All As One: The Organization of the Typographical Societies
Three: More Humble Followers: The Deferential Citizenship of Union Printers
Four: Let None Be Deterred: The Plebeian Crowd, Labor Ideology & Solidarity
Epilogue: To Digest a Plan: The Implications of an Early American Labor History
Appendix A: Clandestine Labor Organizations in Early American History
Appendix B: A Directory of Known Participants in Early American Associations & Combinations of Journeymen Printers Prior to 1816
Notes
Sources: Early American Labor History
Index