Hot Metal - Material Culture and Tangible Labour

Informationen zum Autor Jesse Adams Stein is Chancellor's Research Fellow in the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney Klappentext Hot Metal 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. Zusammenfassung Hot Metal 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: labour, design and culturePart I: Image, space, voice1. The visual at work: oral history and institutional photographs2. Spatial and architectural memory in oral histories of working lifePart II: Technological transitions3. The continuity of craft masculinities: from letterpress to offset-lithography4. 'Going with the technology': the final generation of hot-metal compositors Part III: Challenges and creative resilience5. (Re)making spaces and 'working out ways': women in the printing industry6. Making things on the side: creativity at a time of institutional decline7. Conclusion: factory closures, material culture and lossIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jesse Stein, Jesse Adams Stein
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2016
• EAN: 9781784994341
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-434-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design Mup; Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design Mup; Studies in Design and Material
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, Printing, packaging & reprographic industry, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history, Printing and reprographic industries