Congratulations Jesse! Well done.
I have been meaning to put you in touch with Vicky Hattam who lectures in Politics at the New School University in New York, so have copied her onto this reply. Vicky is interested in work, labour and technology, so I thought would be very interested in your Government Printing study.
Vicky, you will remember that I mentioned Jesse's work when I met you at CMU. As you will see from the attached email below, her these work has just been published.
Warm regards, Susan
Susan Stewart, B.Sc(Arch); B.Arch(Hons); PhD
Senior Lecturer in Design l Academic Liaison Officer
School of Design, Faculty of DAB, University of Technology Sydney
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Subject: New book: Hot Metal: Material Culture and Tangible Labour
Dear list members,
Just a quick note to announce the recent publication of my book: /Hot
Metal: Material Culture and Tangible Labour/, published by Manchester
University Press in the Studies in Design & Material Culture Series.
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784994341/
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.
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.
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,
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Apologies for academic book pricing. If purchasing in Australia, Book
Depository is probably the best bet
http://www.bookdepository.com/Hot-Metal/9781784994341. If in the UK,
direct from MUP can be useful because they often have discounts. Also
available on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1784994340/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=
Many thanks,
Jesse
Dr Jesse Adams Stein
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
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