Tim Strangleman in Reader in sociology at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent. He studies work identity, deindustrialisation, corporate photography, and nostalgia, in particular in the former Guinness brewery at Park Royal, west London.
September 11, 2009 The Remembrance to a Lost Work: Nostalgia, Labour and the Visual
Taken from the Introduction to Ming Jue: Photographs of Longbridge and Nanjing (Stuart Whipps, 2008, Walsall: New Art Gallery) Photography by Stuart Whipps [http://www.stuartwhipps.com/] One of the main concerns sociologists had in the 1960s and 1970s was how industrial workers coped with the boring monotony of their routine jobs, but ironically within two decades attention…