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Hot metal : material culture and tangible labour / Jesse Adams Stein. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stein, Jesse Adams, author.
- Series:
- Studies in design and material culture.
- Studies in design and material culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Printing industry--Australia--History--20th century.
- Printing industry.
- Printing industry--Australia--Employees.
- Deindustrialization--Australia--Case studies.
- Deindustrialization.
- Printing industry--Technological innovations.
- N.S.W. Government Printing Office--History.
- N.S.W. Government Printing Office.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series Information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- Oral history interviews
- Author'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 'Going with the technology': the final generation of hot-metal compositors
- Part III Challenges and creative resilience
- 6 (Re)making spaces and 'working out ways': 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
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 6, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-2115-8
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