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- Title
A Trade Union in Sixteenth-Century France.
- Authors
Davis, Natalie Zemon
- Abstract
This article discusses the place of the Company of the Griffarins, a workers' coalition of the printers' journeymen of Lyons, France, in the history of the labor movement. The printing industry in Lyons was dominated by the great merchant-publishers, who financed the printing of books without owning a shop or presses, and who then marketed the books throughout Europe. The Company of the Griffarins was compared to the highly developed French compagnonnages of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Finally, the development of trade unions in the English printing industry was compared to the French printing industry.
- Subjects
LYON (France); FRANCE; LABOR unions; JOURNEY workers; PRINTERS (Persons); PRINTING industry; LABOR movement
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1966, Vol 19, Issue 1, p48
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2592792