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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, [log in to unmask] 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) Office: Building 6, Level 6, Room CB06:06:69a 702-730 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007 Postal: PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007 Australia M +61 425 141 295 | W +61 2 9514 8007 [log in to unmask] UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------