The Organization of craft work : identities, meanings and materiality / edited by Emma Bell ...[et al.]

Craft in japan / Robin Holt and Yutaka Yamauchi -- Crafted in America : from culture to profession / Shelby Solomon and Blake Mathias -- Wine, the authenticity taste regime and rendering craft / Jennifer Smith Maguire -- Organising the home as making space: crafting scale, identity, and boundary contestation / Susan Luckman and Jane Andrew -- Smells like craft spirit: craft as empowerment and social movement in niche perfumery / Claus Noppeney and Nada Endrissat -- 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 -- Back to the brewster : craft brewing, gender and the dialectical interplay of retraditionalisation and innovation / Chris Land, Neil Sutherland and Scott Taylor -- Craft as a contested term : meaning diversities between entrepreneurs and consumers in the craft-brewing industry / Nadine Waehning, Maria Karampela and Juho Pesonen -- Making livelihoods within communities of practice : the place of guild organisations in the craft sector / Nicola J. Thomas and Doreen Jakob -- The cordwainers lair : contingency in bespoke shoemaking / Robert Ott -- Craft as resistance : a conversation about craftivism, embodied enquiry and craft-based methodologies / Ann Rippin and Sheena J. Vachhani -- 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 -- Reflecting on the relationship between craft and history : perspectives, resources and contemporary implications / Richard Blundell -- The future of craft / Malcolm Ferris -- Index.

This 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.