In recent years, graphic designers have made fresh challenges to the dominant narratives and institutions of their discipline. Amid a range of intensifying social crises, long-neglected questions about working conditions and the nature of capitalism have suddenly become unavoidable. This lecture will shift attention from the professional canon to the tools and techniques of everyday practice, foregrounding a repressed saga of labor militancy, profit-driven automation, and anticapitalist critique. Our concluding discussion will explore the present-day echoes of this complex and contradictory legacy: What would it mean for graphic designers to locate themselves in a labor history of typography?