The Last Type

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The Last Type

I. The foreman's letter arrived on a Tuesday. It was not a dramatic thing—no shouted accusations, no dramatic firing. Just a typed sheet of paper slipped under the door of the print shop, brief and bureaucratic, explaining that the Linotype machines had replaced the hand-typesetters, and that the East London office would be closing at month's end. Thirty-seven men would lose their jobs. Thomas...

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