Skill, gender and technical change in a Nordic environment: typesetting in Iceland and Sweden

• Published in: New Technology, Work and Employment
• Main Author: Edvardsson, Ingi Rúnar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1994
• Subjects: Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-005x.1994.tb00048.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1468-005X.1994.tb00048.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-005X.1994.tb00048.x

Drawing on empirical material from comparative research on jobbing printing in Iceland and Sweden, the author argues that the typesetting process has been subjected to deskilling, and he stresses that the development has been far more complex than often is realised. He concludes that gender, firm size, and production run and variety, must be considered in order to explain the diversity in the typesetting process.