This edited book focuses on the organization and meaning of craft work in contemporary society. It considers the relationship between craft and place and how this enables the construction of a meaningful relationship with objects of production and consumption. The book explores the significance of raw materials, the relationship between the body, the crafted object and the mind, and the importance of skill, knowledge and learning in the making process. Through this, it raises important questions about the role of craft in facing future challenges by challenging the logic of globalized production and consumption.The Organization of Craft Work encompasses international analyses from the United States, France, Italy, Australia, Canada, the UK and Japan involving a diverse range of sectors, including brewing, food and wine production, clothing and shoe making, and perfumery. The book will be of interest to students and academic researchers in organization studies, marketing and consumer behaviour, business ethics, entrepreneurship, sociology of work, human resource management, cultural studies, geography, and fashion and design. In addition, the book will be of interest to practitioners and organizations with an interest in the development and promotion of craft work.Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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The Organization of Craft Work develops a diverse range of theoretical perspectives for understanding craft work will be of interest both to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners in business and management disciplines.
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Introduction: Understanding contemporary craft workEmma Bell, Maria Laura Toraldo, Scott Taylor and Gianluigi Mangia1. Craft in JapanRobin Holt and Yutaka Yamauchi2. Crafted in America: from culture to professionShelby Solomon and Blake Mathias3. Wine, the authenticity taste regime and rendering craftJennifer Smith Maguire4. Organising the home as making space: crafting scale, identity, and boundary contestation Susan Luckman and Jane Andrew5. Smells like craft spirit: craft as empowerment and social movement in niche perfumeryClaus Noppeney and Nada Endrissat6. Deploying social memory for international recognition: the role of place and tradition in an Italian silk tie makerMaria Laura Toraldo, Stefano Consiglio and Gianluigi Mangia7. Back to the brewster: craft brewing, gender and the dialectical interplay of retraditionalisation and innovationChris Land, Neil Sutherland and Scott Taylor8. Craft as a contested term: meaning diversities between entrepreneurs and consumers in the craft-brewing industryNadine Waehning, Maria Karampela and Juho Pesonen9. Making livelihoods within communities of practice: the place of guild organisations in the craft sectorNicola J. Thomas and Doreen Jakob10. The cordwainers lair: contingency in bespoke shoemakingRobert Ott11. Craft as resistance: a conversation about craftivism, embodied enquiry and craft-based methodologiesAnn Rippin and Sheena J. Vachhani12. Being maker-centric: making as method for self-organization and achieving craft impact in local communities and economiesFiona Hackney, Deirdre Figueiredo, Laura Onions, Gavin Rogers and Jana Milovanovic13. Reflecting on the relationship between craft and history: perspectives, resources and contemporary implicationsRichard Blundel
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"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
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ISBN
9781138636668
Publisert
2018-08-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
544 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
278

Biographical note

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.