Stein Hot metal

Material culture and tangible labour
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0603-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Design and Material Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stein, Jesse Adams

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: labour, design and culture
Part I: Image, space, voice
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
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Jesse Adams Stein is Chancellor's Research Fellow in the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney