Harvey Araton writes, with keen insight, of a time when power was ebbing fast from both newspapers and their unions. It's an especially bittersweet tale he tells of the people who had grown up in newspapers and unions, as they struggle to adapt to this evolving new order. And, of course, what makes
Cold Type
โ Scribed by Araton, Harvey
- Book ID
- 110378832
- Publisher
- Cinco Puntos Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 312 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781935955887
- ASIN
- B00J75HU3O
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โฆ Synopsis
In times of change, American novelists return to old themes. In Cold Typeas in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesmana son and his father struggle to hold onto what they think is right. It's mid-1990s; and "cold type" technology, a.k.a. computerized typesetting, wreaks havoc among workers in the newspaper industry. A fabulously wealthy Briton buys the New York City Triband immediately refuses to negotiate with the truck drivers' union. In solidarity, all the other blue collar unions take to the streets. Jamie Kramer is a reporter for the Trib. His father is a hardcore shop steward (unusual for a Jew in Irish-dominated unions) from the old day of "hot type," but who has become a typographer in a world he doesn't understand. His father expects Jamie not to cross the picket line. It would be an act of supreme disrespect. But that's not so easy for Jamie. His marriage has fallen apart, he desperately needs his paycheck for child support, and he needs to make his own life outside the shadow of his father.
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