Industrial craft in Australia : oral histories of creativity and survival

Industrial craft in Australia : oral histories of creativity and survival / Jesse Adams Stein.

This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising places such as Australia. Providing an alternative to the nostalgic trope of the redundant factory craftsman, this book introduces the intriguing and little-known trade of engineering...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stein, Jesse Adams (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:Palgrave studies in oral history.
Subjects:
Industries > Social aspects > Australia.
Skilled labor > Australia.
Deindustrialization > Australia.
Deindustrialization
Industries > Social aspects
Skilled labor
Australia
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Re-evaluating Industrial Craft Through the Lives of Engineering Patternmakers
  • 2. Navigating Class and Populist Politics in Contemporary Oral History Practice
  • 3. The Patternmaker's Toolbox: Making Things on the Side in Industrial Craft Apprenticeship
  • 4. Industrial Craft as Design Knowledge: Hidden Intermediaries of Design and Production
  • 5. Just Finishing: From Manual Patternmaking to CNC Machine Milling
  • 6. Not Fitting the Pattern: Women in Industrial Craft
  • 7. Patternmaker-Artists: Creative Pathways for Industrial Craftspeople in the Context of Australian Deindustrialisation
  • 8. Conclusion: Industrial Craft and Alternative Futures for Australian Manufacturing.

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