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Author Stein, Jesse Adams, author

Title Hot metal : material culture and tangible labour / Jesse Stein
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Studies in design and material culture
Studies in design and material culture.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Printing industry -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
Printing industry -- Australia -- Employees
Deindustrialization -- Australia -- Case studies
Printing industry -- Technological innovations
Social & Cultural History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
ART -- History -- Contemporary (1945- )
Deindustrialization
Printing industry
Printing industry -- Employees
Printing industry -- Technological innovations
Australia
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
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