Vernacular workplace culture : the ghosts of collectivity haunt the future

Edensor, Timothy J. (2011) Vernacular workplace culture : the ghosts of collectivity haunt the future. Borderlands, 10 (2). ISSN 1447-0810

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Abstract

This is an essay and a collection of photographs of British industrial ruins taken between 2002 and 2004 that features fragments of a vanished industrial workplace, replete with its modes of conviviality, having fun and sharing enthusiasms. The photographs hint at a working class culture that is rapidly disappearing in the UK, but they cannot capture it. Yet they offer images for conjecture about a recent past, with its traces of collectivity, humour and solidarity that haunts a potentially more dystopian future, and aim to honour a history that is in danger of being marginalised.