Masculinity and Material Culture in Technological Transitions.
Between the 1960s and the 1980s the printing industry in advanced capitalist economies underwent dramatic technological change. While the transition from "hot metal" compositing to computerized typesetting has been extensively analyzed, there was another transformation occurring simultaneously: in t...
| Publicado en: | Technology & Culture Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 24 - 54 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Jan2016
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