Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. How-to -- 'Introductory remarks', from The Teacher's Handbook of Slöjd / Otto Salomon -- Elements of handicraft and design / W.A.S. Benson -- The wheelwright's shop / George Sturt -- On weaving / Anni Albers -- Primitive pottery / Hal Riegger -- pt. 2. Craft and the Industrial Revolution -- On the economy of machines and manufactures / Charles Babbage -- Artisans and machinery / Peter Gaskell -- 'How an aristocracy may emerge from industry', from Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Industrial biography: iron workers and tool makers / Samuel Smiles -- Capital / Karl Marx -- 'The primary effects of scientific management', from Labor and monopoly capitalism / Harry Braverman -- The workshop of the world: steam power and hand technology in mid-Victorian Britain / Raphael Samuel --Technological innovation and design economics in furniture manufacture / Michael Ettema -- Artistic America / Siegfried Bing -- In the cause of architecture: the architect and the machine / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Art and the machine / Hermann Muthesius -- Building materials / Adolf Loos -- Handwerk/kunsthandwerk / Stefan Muthesius -- pt. 3. Modern craft: idealism and reform -- 'The nature of Gothic', from The Stones of Venice / John Ruskin -- The revival of handicraft / William Morris -- Art and labor / Ellen Gates Starr -- Art and workmanship / W.R. Lethaby -- 'Slogans', 'the work ahead of us' and 'the problem of the relationship between man and object' / Vladimir Tatlin -- 'The way of craftsmanship', from The Unknown craftsman: a Japanese insight into beauty / Sôetsu Yanagi -- A potter's book / Bernard Leach -- Initiation and the crafts / René Guéron -- Indian handicrafts / Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay -- 'The relation of the past to the demands of the present', World Crafts Conference Proceedings (1964) -- Centering / M.C. Richards -- Introduction to Craftsman lifestyle: the gentle revolution / Eudorah Moore -- The soul of a tree / George Nakashima -- The long shadow of William Morris: paradigmatic problems of twentieth-century American furniture / Edward S. Cooke, Jr.

pt. 4. The persistence of craft in the age of mass production -- Shoemaker of dreams / Salvatore Ferragamo -- Crafting grand cru chocolates in contemporary France / Susan J. Terrio -- From peasant to artisan: motor mechanics in a Nigerian town / Sara Berry -- Destiny world: textile casualties in southern Nigeria / David T. Doris -- On a particular kind of love and the specificity of Soviet production / Sergei Alasheev -- Original copies / Philip Tinari -- 'What is cybernetics?', from The Human use of humans / Norbert Wiener -- Abstracting craft: the practiced digital hand / Malcolm McCullough -- 'Digital artisans manifesto', European Digital Artisans Network / Richard Barbrook and Pit Schultz -- Craft versus design: moving beyond a tired dichotomy / Rafael Cardoso -- pt. 5. Craft in theory: aesthetics, essence, status -- The nature and art of workmanship / David Pye -- 'The genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization, from Du Mode d'existence des objets techniques / Gilbert Simondon -- 'Forms in the realms of matter', from The Life of forms in art / Henri Focillon -- Rhythm / Elsie Fogerty -- The Mande blacksmiths: knowledge, power and art in West Africa / Patrick R. McNaughton -- African art: where the hand has ears / Amadou Hâmpaté Bâ -- Walter Benjamin: traces of craft / Esther Leslie -- Functionalism today / Theodor Adorno --The thing / Martin Heidegger -- Rappel a l'ordre: the case for the tectonic / Kenneth Frampton -- 'Art and craft', from The Principles of art / R.G. Collingwood -- Art and work / Harold Rosenberg -- 'Comment' and responses / John Bentley Mays -- Curatorial comment from The Maker's eye / Alison Britton -- How envy killed the crafts / Garth Clark -- pt. 6. Craft in action: life, art, design -- The enchantment of technology and the technology of enchantment / Alfred Gell -- Making something from nothing (toward a definition of women's 'hobby art') / Lucy Lippard -- 'The creation of femininity', from The Subversive stitch: embroidery and the making of the feminine / Rozsika Parker -- There's no place like home: home dressmaking and creativity in the Jamaican community of the 1940s to the 1960s / Carole Tulloch -- House-trained objects: notes towards writing an alternative history of modern art / Tanya Harrod -- The new ceramic presence / Rose Slivka -- How I spent my summer vacation or, art and politics in Nevada, Berkeley, San Francisco and Utah / Philip Leider -- Some notes on the phenomenology of making: the search for the motivated / Robert Morris -- The art of encounter / Lee Ufan -- Let the artisans craft our future / Grayson Perry -- 'Manifesto of the bauhaus' and 'Education and the bauhaus' / Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy -- Shaping America's products / Don Wallance -- Asilomar Conference Proceedings 1957 / Marguerite Wildenhain and Charles Eames -- 'The new handicrafts, ' from Hot house / Andrea Branzi -- pt. 7. Contemporary approaches -- Affectivity and entropy: production aesthetics in contemporary sculpture / Johanna Drucker -- 'Craftsmen in the factory of images', from BoysCraft / Tami Katz-Freiman -- And what is your title? / Zandra Ahl -- Craft hard, die free: radical curatorial strategies for craftivism in unruly contexts / Anthea Black and Nicole Burisch -- The politics of craft: a roundtable / Julia Bryan-White [and 4 others].