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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stein, Jesse Adams (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:Studies in design and material culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Printing industry > Australia > History > 20th century.
Printing industry > Australia > Employees.
Deindustrialization > Australia > Case studies.
Printing industry > Technological innovations.
Industries graphiques > Australie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Industries graphiques > Australie > Personnel.
Désindustrialisation > Australie > Études de cas.
Industries graphiques > Innovations.
Social & Cultural History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
ART > History > Contemporary (1945- )
Deindustrialization
Printing industry
Printing industry > Employees
Printing industry > Technological innovations
Australia
Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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