[csaa-forum] New book: Hot Metal: Material Culture & Tangible Labour

[Jesse Adams Stein]

Dear list members,

Just a quick note to announce the recent publication of my book: Hot Metal:
Material Culture and Tangible Labour
<http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784994341/>, published by
Manchester University Press in the Studies in Design & Material Culture
Series.

*Hot Metal* is a cross-disciplinary title that sits somewhere between
material culture studies, labour history and oral history studies of
working life. It focuses on the experiences of workers from the old NSW
Government Printing Office (looking at the years 1959-1989), as they
shifted from hot metal typesetting and letterpress, to computer typesetting
and offset-lithography, and then promptly lost their jobs (under the NSW
Greiner government).

Apologies in advance for academic book pricing - not my decision. Book
Depository is probably the best bet but even then it's a shocker:
http://www.bookdepository.com/Hot-Metal/9781784994341


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*Synopsis*

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.


*Table of Contents*

Introduction: labour, design and culture
Part I: Image, space, voice
1. The visual at work: oral history and institutional photographs
2. Spatial and architectural memory in oral histories of working life
Part II: Technological transitions
3. The continuity of craft masculinities: from letterpress to
offset-lithography
4. 'Going with the technology': the final generation of hot-metal
compositors
Part III: Challenges and creative resilience
5. (Re)making spaces and 'working out ways': women in the printing industry
6. Making things on the side: creativity at a time of institutional decline
7. Conclusion: factory closures, material culture and loss
Index


For review copy inquiries, please contact Bethan Hirst at MUP,
Bethan.Hirst at manchester.ac.uk.


Many thanks,

Jesse


-- 
*Dr Jesse Adams Stein*
*Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow*
University of Technology Sydney
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
Office: Building 6, Level 6, Room CB06:06:69a
Postal: PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007
(+61) 02 9514 8007  |  jesse.stein at uts.edu.au
www.uts.edu.au/staff/jesse.stein
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