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The Lost World of the Craft Printer

By: Maggie Holtzberg

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The Lost World of the Craft Printer

By: Maggie Holtzberg

She finds that a significant number of printers independently developed similar responses to the deskilling of their craft and the threat of unemployment. Demonstrating a widespread consistency in themes and expressive forms in the printers' occupational narratives, Holtzberg-Call shows that what once served as the printers' rhetoric of tradition is now their rhetoric of displacement. Initiation rites, long apprenticeships, a complex and peculiar jargon, and a gallery of legendary figures once bound hot-metal printers into a specialized, highly regarded occupational folk community. The hot-metal printers' lore has survived in an exemplary form that functions as a source of reconciliation with the demise of their craft." "Holtzberg-Call analyzes how and why the printers traditionalize and idealize their work experience, drawing parallels between the shift from mechanical to computer typesetting and an equally disconcerting transition in the nineteenth century, when Linotype deposed handset type. She also shares her knowledge of the many aspects of hot-metal printing culture, from the life of the tramp printer to the meanings of various printing terms to the operation of a Linotype machine. One gains a sense of the conditions in the old type shops, where long hours, excessive heat, and poorly ventilated fumes from solvent, ink, and molten lead were the crucible in which camaraderie, pride, and fulfillment were forged.".

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University of Illinois Press

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0252017994

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Keepers of Tradition

Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts

By: Maggie Holtzberg

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Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts

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Throughout Massachusetts, artists carry on and revitalise deeply rooted traditions that take many expressive forms - from Native American basketry to Yankee wooden boats, Armenian lace, Chinese seals, and Irish music and dance. This illustrated volume celebrates and shares the work of a wide array of these living artists.

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Univ of Massachusetts Press

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Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts

By: Maggie Holtzberg

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The Lost World of the Craft Printer

By: Maggie Holtzberg

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The Lost World of the Craft Printer

The Lost World of the Craft Printer

Keepers of Tradition

Keepers of Tradition

Keepers of Tradition

Keepers of Tradition

The Lost World of the Craft Printer

The Lost World of the Craft Printer

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