Craft and the creative economy /
By: Luckman, Susan.
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: xvi,187 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text $2 rdacontent | text Media type: unmediated $2 rdamedia | unmediated Carrier type: volume $2 rdacarrier | volumeISBN: 9781137399649; 9781137399649:; 1137399643.Subject(s): Handicraft industries | Handicraft -- Economic aspects | Industrial arts | Cultural industriesDDC classification: 338.477455Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 338.477455 LUC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0064303 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index.
Introduction -- Craft revival: the post-Etsy handmade economy -- Crafts as creative industry -- Material authenticity and the renaissance of the handmade: the aura of the analogue (or "the enchantment of making") -- Craft micro-enterprise, gender and work-life relationships -- "Self-making" and marketing the crafty self -- Craft work and "the good life": creative economic possibilities -- Conclusion -- Craft micro-economies: more than "cool capitalism."
'Craft and the Creative Economy' examines the place of craft and making in the contemporary cultural economy, with a distinctive focus on the ways in which this creative sector is growing exponentially as a result of online shopfronts and home-based micro-enterprise, 'mumpreneurialism' and downshifting, and renewed demand for the handmade.