ΤΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΥΠΟΓΡΑΦΟΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΚΥΠΡΟ: ΑΝΙΧΝΕΥΟΝΤΑΣ ΟΜΟΙΟΤΗΤΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΦΟΡΕΣ

Abstract

The aim of this article is to trace and compare some similarities and dif­ferences between Greece and Cyprus in the field of typography and its actors. The research was heavily based on the archives of the Pan-Cy­priot Workers' Federation (PEO). Much also was gained from oral interviews with printers, employers, newspaper managers, booksellers, publishers, etc. The most striking difference lays in the fact that in Cyprus the workers in the publication of newspapers did not form a sep­arate group with their own union, as it happened in Greece, but joined the same trade unions as the other printing press workers. Additionally in Cyprus the Government Printing Office, until at least 1960, seems to have born more weight in printing events compared to the National Printing Office in Athens. In the field of printing employers, from the interviews we conducted and the other data that have been published or detected in the surviving archives, we can outline many similarities and differences concerning their strategy towards the challenge of modern­ization, the fluctuations in demand for publishing goods, the claims and strikes of the workers. Finally, few general remarks were made on the production and circulation of the publications in Cyprus.