Newsworkers ─ Toward a History of the Rank and File

Unlike most media histories which focus on the news industry from an institutional point of view, these collected essays concentrate on the newsworkers, primarily writers and editors, working in the press from the 1850s through the 1930s. The scholars consider issues of labor and class as they coincided with the industrial revolution, the emergence of the writer and the division of editorial practices. Two comparative essays analyze photography in relation to print, and journalistic ideology in Canada. "The exploitation of `little merchants'" completes the labor history with a discussion of newsboys. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.