Printing For School And Shop A Textbook For Printers Apprentices Continuation Classes And For General Use In Schools

Author : Frank Souder Henry
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330287255
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Printing a Textbook for Printers Apprentices, Continuation Classes, and for General Use in Schools written by Frank Souder Henry and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Printing a Textbook for Printers Apprentices, Continuation Classes, and for General Use in Schools According to the Census of 1910, printing ranked sixth among the important industries of the United States, with an invested capital of $588,000,000, and offering employment to over 258,000 persons. Since that time it has been steadily advancing. The printing business today is replete with labor-and time-saving devices, and is being conducted on the basis of both expediency arid efficiency. All well-equipped and properly conducted printing establishments have installed cost systems, and, by the use of time-stamping devices, are keeping accurate account of the time that employees spend on their jobs. While, in many respects, these changes have been of advantage to the employer, they have been to the detriment of the apprentice. Formerly it was the custom to put an apprentice in the care of some competent workman. In the course of four years the journeyman was supposed to impart to the apprentice a full, working knowledge of the trade. Today the journeyman is practically working against time; he cannot train an apprentice and still make a creditable showing, consequently the average apprentice is simply drifting along, picking up what knowledge he can. If he is apt, he may learn to perform certain operations of the trade by imitation, usually without knowing why. This lamentable condition does not exist in every office, it is true, but it is prevalent enough to demand attention. Employers are beginning to realize that in striving for efficiency in production they have been neglecting a still more vital factor - that of training efficient help. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.