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Hot Metal

- Material Culture and Tangible Labour
Af: Jesse Adams Stein Engelsk Hardback

Hot Metal

- Material Culture and Tangible Labour
Af: Jesse Adams Stein Engelsk Hardback
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Hot metal is the first book of its kind to unpack the fundamental interconnections between design, material culture and labour in the context of deindustrialisation. It centres on the lives of printing industry workers between the 1960s and the 1980s, who experienced the disruptive technological change from hot-metal typesetting and letterpress printing to computerisation and offset-lithography, shortly before facing factory closure and the obsolescence of their craft skills.

This book provides new perspectives on how the world of work is intertwined with the tangible and affective worlds of materiality. It argues that workplace culture is not just the sum of sociopolitical relationships, but is also bound up with a world of things. Through things, the social and gendered processes of workplace life are enacted and experienced. The book integrates oral histories and archival photographs from an intriguing case: a doggedly traditional Government Printing Office in Australia, providing an evocative rendering of design culture and embodied practice. The chapters examine spatial and visual memory within frameworks of oral history, gender-technology tensions, workers' strategies for survival, the rise of neoliberalism and the clandestine making of objects 'on the side'.

Hot metal is an engaging multidisciplinary text that will appeal to scholars in design history, material culture studies, labour history, the history of technology, gender studies and beyond. It is an accessible, richly argued text that will benefit students seeking to learn about the nature and erosion of blue-collar work, the integration of oral history with visual and material culture and the history of the printing as a craft.

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Hot metal is the first book of its kind to unpack the fundamental interconnections between design, material culture and labour in the context of deindustrialisation. It centres on the lives of printing industry workers between the 1960s and the 1980s, who experienced the disruptive technological change from hot-metal typesetting and letterpress printing to computerisation and offset-lithography, shortly before facing factory closure and the obsolescence of their craft skills.

This book provides new perspectives on how the world of work is intertwined with the tangible and affective worlds of materiality. It argues that workplace culture is not just the sum of sociopolitical relationships, but is also bound up with a world of things. Through things, the social and gendered processes of workplace life are enacted and experienced. The book integrates oral histories and archival photographs from an intriguing case: a doggedly traditional Government Printing Office in Australia, providing an evocative rendering of design culture and embodied practice. The chapters examine spatial and visual memory within frameworks of oral history, gender-technology tensions, workers' strategies for survival, the rise of neoliberalism and the clandestine making of objects 'on the side'.

Hot metal is an engaging multidisciplinary text that will appeal to scholars in design history, material culture studies, labour history, the history of technology, gender studies and beyond. It is an accessible, richly argued text that will benefit students seeking to learn about the nature and erosion of blue-collar work, the integration of oral history with visual and material culture and the history of the printing as a craft.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 232
ISBN-13: 9781784994341
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1784994340
Kategori: Materiel kultur
Udg. Dato: 13 okt 2016
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 176mm
Højde: 249mm
Forlag: Manchester University Press
Oplagsdato: 13 okt 2016
Forfatter(e): Jesse Adams Stein
Forfatter(e) Jesse Adams Stein


Kategori Materiel kultur


ISBN-13 9781784994341


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 232


Udgave


Længde 23mm


Bredde 176mm


Højde 249mm


Udg. Dato 13 okt 2016


Oplagsdato 13 okt 2016


Forlag Manchester University Press

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