1st Edition
The Organization of Craft Work Identities, Meanings, and Materiality
Introduction: Understanding contemporary craft work
Emma Bell, Maria Laura Toraldo, Scott Taylor and Gianluigi Mangia
1. Craft in Japan
Robin Holt and Yutaka Yamauchi
2. Crafted in America: from culture to profession
Shelby Solomon and Blake Mathias
3. Wine, the authenticity taste regime and rendering craft
Jennifer Smith Maguire
4. Organising the home as making space: crafting scale, identity, and boundary contestation
Susan Luckman and Jane Andrew
5. Smells like craft spirit: craft as empowerment and social movement in niche perfumery
Claus Noppeney and Nada Endrissat
6. Deploying social memory for international recognition: the role of place and tradition in an Italian silk tie maker
Maria Laura Toraldo, Stefano Consiglio and Gianluigi Mangia
7. Back to the brewster: craft brewing, gender and the dialectical interplay of retraditionalisation and innovation
Chris Land, Neil Sutherland and Scott Taylor
8. Craft as a contested term: meaning diversities between entrepreneurs and consumers in the craft-brewing industry
Nadine Waehning, Maria Karampela and Juho Pesonen
9. Making livelihoods within communities of practice: the place of guild organisations in the craft sector
Nicola J. Thomas and Doreen Jakob
10. The cordwainers lair: contingency in bespoke shoemaking
Robert Ott
11. Craft as resistance: a conversation about craftivism, embodied enquiry and craft-based methodologies
Ann Rippin and Sheena J. Vachhani
12. Being maker-centric: making as method for self-organization and achieving craft impact in local communities and economies
Fiona Hackney, Deirdre Figueiredo, Laura Onions, Gavin Rogers and Jana Milovanovic
13. Reflecting on the relationship between craft and history: perspectives, resources and contemporary implications
Richard Blundel
Biography
Emma Bell is Professor of Organisation Studies at The Open University, UK.
Gianluigi Mangia is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, and Head of Department of Management, Organizations and Human Resources at the Scuola Nazionale dell’Amministrazione (SNA) in Rome, Italy.
Scott Taylor is Reader in Leadership and Organization Studies at University of Birmingham, UK.
Maria Laura Toraldo is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland.
"The rise of artisanal and craft production is an extraordinary feature of contemporary consumption and employment. Whether a cynical branding exercise or a more profound nostalgic rediscovery of authentic labour this wonderfully timely book offers important new critical insights into craft work." –Tim Strangleman, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Author of Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of Park Royal, Oxford University Press
"This is an important addition to the understanding of what craft means in the 21st century. The warm feeling generated by Sennett’s book should certainly make us look carefully at the enduring impact of this turn, to distinguish reality from hope." -Kevin Murray, Garland Magazine
