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Hot metal : material culture and tangible labour /

This work focuses on the experience of Australian print-workers between the 1960s and 1980s, concentrating on labour, production, design, and culture in the context of deindustrialisation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stein, Jesse Adams (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Colección:Studies in design and material culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series Information
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures
  • Oral history interviews
  • Authorâ#x80;#x99;s note
  • Note on the text
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I Image, space, voice
  • 1 Introduction: labour, design and culture
  • 2 The visual at work: oral history and institutional photographs
  • 3 Spatial and architectural memory in oral histories of working life
  • Part II Technological transitions
  • 4 The continuity of craft masculinities: from letterpress to offset-lithography 5 â#x80;#x98;Going with the technologyâ#x80;#x99;: the final generation of hot-metal compositors
  • Part III Challenges and creative resilience
  • 6 (Re)making spaces and â#x80;#x98;working out waysâ#x80;#x99;: women in the printing industry
  • 7 Making things on the side: creativity at a time of institutional decline
  • 8 Conclusion: factory closures, material culture and loss
  • List of terms and abbreviations
  • Select bibliography