<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear list members,<br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Just a quick note to announce the recent publication of my book: <a href="http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784994341/">Hot Metal: Material Culture and Tangible Labour</a>, published by Manchester University Press in the Studies in Design & Material Culture Series. </font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Hot Metal</i><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> 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). </span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Apologies in advance for academic book pricing - not my decision. Book Depository is probably the best bet but even then it's a shocker: <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Hot-Metal/9781784994341">http://www.bookdepository.com/Hot-Metal/9781784994341</a></font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_158b2f0b51efa3b1" alt="Inline images 1" width="192" height="288" style="margin-right: 0px;"></font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Synopsis</b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">The world of work is tightly entwined with the world of things. <i>Hot Metal</i> 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. </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">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. </span><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Table of Contents</b><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span class="gmail-m_8772626586282500874gmail-m_-8046376309257118295gmail-m_-4260775822970888664gmail-maintext" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">Introduction: labour, design and culture</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">Part I: Image, space, voice</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">1. The visual at work: oral history and institutional photographs</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">2. Spatial and architectural memory in oral histories of working life</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">Part II: Technological transitions</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">3. The continuity of craft masculinities: from letterpress to offset-lithography</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">4. 'Going with the technology': the final generation of hot-metal compositors </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">Part III: Challenges and creative resilience</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">5. (Re)making spaces and 'working out ways': women in the printing industry</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">6. Making things on the side: creativity at a time of institutional decline</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">7. Conclusion: factory closures, material culture and loss</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">Index</span></font><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="jaf-bernina-sans-condensed, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">For review copy inquiries, please contact Bethan Hirst at MUP, </span></font><a href="mailto:Bethan.Hirst@manchester.ac.uk">Bethan.Hirst@manchester.ac.uk</a>. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Jesse</div><div><font color="#333333" face="jaf-bernina-sans-condensed, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><br clear="all"></span></font><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#666666" size="1"><b>Dr Jesse Adams Stein</b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#666666" size="1"><b>Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow</b></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:x-small">University of Technology Sydney </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:x-small">Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#666666" size="1">Office: Building 6, Level 6, Room CB06:06:69a</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#666666" size="1">Postal: PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#666666" size="1">(+61) 02 9514 8007 | </font><a href="mailto:jesse.stein@uts.edu.au" target="_blank"><font size="1">jesse.stein@uts.edu.au</font></a></div></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><font color="#666666"><a href="https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/jesse.stein" target="_blank">www.uts.edu.au/staff/jesse.stein</a> </font><u style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"></u></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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