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Wood Type Archaeology: An Inquiry Into Worker Skill In Wood Printing Type Manufacture, Daniel Schneider

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

Wood Type Archaeology uses the concept of industrial skill to frame an inquiry into the nature of workers’ agency within the processes of wood printing type manufacture. The concept of industrial skill posits that industrialized manufacture gave rise to new kinds of knowledge of practice and manual engagement intrinsically linked to the technological and social environment of the factory. The thesis defines worker skill in relation to technological and social dimensions of the industrial workplace, argues for industrial skill’s recognition as an intangible form of industrial heritage, and describes industrial skill in the context of wood printing type manufacture at …