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Author Stein, Jesse Adams, author.

Title Hot metal : material culture and tangible labour / Jesse Stein.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Series Studies in design and material culture
Studies in design and material culture.
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.
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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Subject Printing industry -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Printing industry.
Australia.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Printing industry -- Australia -- Employees.
Employees.
Deindustrialization -- Australia -- Case studies.
Deindustrialization.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Printing industry -- Technological innovations.
Printing industry -- Technological innovations.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Case studies.
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