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Hot Metal - Material Culture and Tangible Labour (Hardcover)
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Hot Metal - Material Culture and Tangible Labour (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture
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The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things. Hot
metal illuminates connections between design, material culture and
labour between the 1960s and the 1980s, when the traditional crafts
of hot-metal typesetting and letterpress were finally made obsolete
with the introduction of computerised technologies. This
multidisciplinary history provides an evocative rendering of design
culture by exploring an intriguing case: a doggedly traditional
Government Printing Office in Australia. It explores the struggles
experienced by printers as they engaged in technological
retraining, shortly before facing factory closure. Topics explored
include spatial memory within oral history, gender-labour tensions,
the rise of neoliberalism and the secret making of objects 'on the
side'. This book will appeal to researchers in design and social
history, labour history, material culture and gender studies. It is
an accessible, richly argued text that will benefit students
seeking to learn about the nature and erosion of blue-collar work
and the history of printing as a craft. -- .
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