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Existing studies focus on typesetting and compositors Existing studies focus on typesetting and compositors
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Letterpress and offset-lithography Letterpress and offset-lithography
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Lithography infiltrates the Main pressroom Lithography infiltrates the Main pressroom
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Craft masculinities Craft masculinities
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Embodied experience and aesthetics for press-machinists Embodied experience and aesthetics for press-machinists
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The exception: those who maintained letterpress loyalty The exception: those who maintained letterpress loyalty
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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4 The continuity of craft masculinities: from letterpress to offset-lithography
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Published:November 2016
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Abstract
This chapter considers the effect that an autonomous technical artefact – the printing press – had on the workers in charge of them, the press-machinists. It establishes how the printing press possesses material and social agency in the continuity and transformation of craft masculinity. This issue is examined in the context of the technological shift from letterpress printing to high-speed offset-lithography, which took place chiefly in the 1970s. While the compositors’ experience of technological change has received some attention in labour history and sociology, the trade of press-machining has been almost entirely ignored. Charting the printing industry’s transition from letterpress to offset-lithography opens a new window of understanding into the relevance and influence of large-scale technical machinery on the shop floor. This is related back to the reinforcement of craft masculinities in declining industrial contexts. This allows us to see how particular practices and identities are sometimes maintained and reinvigorated when a conservative institution is threatened with change.
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