International Typographical Union

…renaming in 1869 as the International Typographical Union—a designation that became common in North American unionism.

…James Coleman’s analysis of the International Typographical Union (ITU), for example, showed that sustained union democracy was possible given printers’ relative equality of income and status, mastery of communication skills, and generalized political competence, which underpinned the ITU’s unusual history of enduring two-party competition (Independents and Progressives), which mirrored the…