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Over the last thirty years the industrial economies of the West have undergone a profound transformation and millions of jobs have gone and communities have been left wondering where to turn to for their next form of employment. Traditional industries have been particularly hit hard and devastated. Has the free market and the increasingly globalised nature of the world economy led the change away from traditional industry and was this, a necessary part of the evolutionary process of industrial loss?
The nature of this loss of labour is that the sense of identity for individual and
community is questioned and there is a changing sense of place and culture of a place if its traditional industry is taken away and the socialisation of the workforce and its close embedded binds within a community are fractured. The photographs here give a contemporary picture of the dignity and stability that such productive employment gives individuals and communities. Work and labour becomes embedded in the material surroundings, environments and elements of the workplace and this gives a deeper presence and meaning than the end product being made. We abandon the legacy of the value of labour and production at what cost?
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