Artisan And Handicraft Entrepreneurs

Author : Léo-Paul Dana,Veland Ramadani,Ramo Palalic,Aidin Salamzadeh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030823030

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Artisan and Handicraft Entrepreneurs by Léo-Paul Dana,Veland Ramadani,Ramo Palalic,Aidin Salamzadeh Pdf

In handicrafts and artisanal products, industry has witnessed both a technological shift and a renewed interest among customers, especially after the challenges and limitations of mass production became evident under the COVID-19 pandemic. This book portrays the worldwide development of this trend, the nature of entrepreneurship in these industries, and the unique challenges and opportunities that entrepreneurs face. The book shows how these businesses are gaining a resurgence due to customers preferring ethical, regional, and climate-friendly options to fulfill their needs. The chapters focus on artisan entrepreneurs' contribution to society by not only creating businesses, but also in terms of tourism development. The book reiterates that artisan entrepreneurs enable crucial cultural connections with tradition due to their affinity to a region, city, village, or community. Small business and entrepreneurship researchers as well as policymakers in the cultural sector would benefit from this book.

Author : Vanessa Ratten,Paul Jones,Vitor Braga,Eduardo Parra-López
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781802620795

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Artisan Entrepreneurship by Vanessa Ratten,Paul Jones,Vitor Braga,Eduardo Parra-López Pdf

Artisan Entrepreneurship analyses handicraft enterprise using different approaches at an individual, group and societal point of view, providing a better understanding about how these workers contribute to societal wellbeing and aid cultural heritage preservation for future generations.

Author : Nelly Hanna
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815651154

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Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early-Modern Capitalism (1600–1800) by Nelly Hanna Pdf

Little has been written about the economic history of Egypt prior to its incorporation into the European capitalist economy. While historians have mined archives and court documents to create a picture of the commercial activities, networks, and infrastructure of merchants during this time, few have documented a similar picture of the artisans and craftspeople. Artisans outnumbered merchants, and their economic weight was considerable, yet details about their lives, the way they carried out their work, and their role or position in the economy are largely unknown. Hanna seeks to redress this gap with Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early Modern Capitalism (1600–1800) by locating and exploring the role of artisans in the historical process. Offering richly detailed portraits as well as an overview of the Ottoman Empire’s economic landscape, Hanna incorporates artisans into the historical development of the period, portraying them in the context of their work, their families, and their social relations. These artisans developed a variety of capitalist practices, both as individuals and collectively in their guilds. Responding to the demands of expanding commercial environments in Egypt and Europe, artisans found ways to adapt both production techniques and the organization of production. Hanna details the ways in which artisans defied the constraints of the guilds and actively engaged in the markets of Europe, demonstrating how Egyptian artisan production was able to compete and survive in a landscape of growing European trade. Deftly synthesizing a wide range of economic and historical theory, Hanna reinvigorates the current scholarship on early Ottoman history and provides a persuasive challenge to the largely shallow perception of artisans’ role in Egypt’s economy.

Author : Mulholland, Jon,Ricci, Alessandra,Massi, Marta
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839106132

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The Artisan Brand by Mulholland, Jon,Ricci, Alessandra,Massi, Marta Pdf

Investigating the changing forms and dynamics of the artisanal and craft sector, this timely book considers the opportunities, challenges and uncertainties associated with artisanal businesses in new economic times. An international range of case studies is used to demonstrate that the sector must harness the transformational opportunities of technological innovation to ensure future viability and vitality.

Author : Annette Naudin,Karen Patel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786613752

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Craft Entrepreneurship by Annette Naudin,Karen Patel Pdf

Craft practice has experienced a sharp rise in popularity since the late 2000s, partly through the ‘aura of the analogue’ and the desire for authentic, handmade products in an increasingly fast paced, digitalised world (Luckman, 2015) but also because of digital platforms such as Etsy and social media enabling ‘anyone’ to become a craft entrepreneur. This book brings together historical, policy and individual narratives to inform a broad understanding of craft entrepreneurship. Drawing on case studies from around the world, Craft Entrepreneurship considers questions of identity, community, and the digital in craft entrepreneurship. In doing so, it finds craft activities to be positioned between or across the arts, heritage, notions of a bohemian lifestyle and the challenges of micro-entrepreneurship. By engaging with the contradictions and fragility of sustaining a craft practice, the chapters in this book contribute to different perspectives for entrepreneurship studies. The contributions to this volume illustrate the craft entrepreneurs’ identity, motivation and sense of creative purpose through their craft, as these collide with the tensions brought about through entrepreneurship.

Author : Millicent Lownes-Jackson
Publisher : A Business of Your Own
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0943267196

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Starting a Craft Business by Millicent Lownes-Jackson Pdf

Starting A Craft Business is a fresh and innovative inspirational business guidebook for individuals who love to make handcrafted or art items and want to make money while enjoying their talent. Whether the craft artisan is a retired school teacher, vacation bible school craft teacher, disabled professional, or simply a lover of any form of art or craft, this book will help to make their dreams and aspirations of business ownership become a reality.

Author : Rosanne Rutten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Abaca industry
ISBN : UOM:39015032663604

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Artisans and Entrepreneurs in the Rural Philippines by Rosanne Rutten Pdf

Author : Jason Antrosio,Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226302751

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Fast, Easy, and In Cash by Jason Antrosio,Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld Pdf

“Artisan” has become a buzzword in the developed world, used for items like cheese, wine, and baskets, as corporations succeed at branding their cheap, mass-produced products with the popular appeal of small-batch, handmade goods. The unforgiving realities of the artisan economy, however, never left the global south, and anthropologists have worried over the fate of resilient craftspeople as global capitalism remade their cultural and economic lives. Yet artisans are proving to be surprisingly vital players in contemporary capitalism, as they interlock innovation and tradition to create effective new forms of entrepreneurship. Based on seven years of extensive research in Colombia and Ecuador, veteran ethnographers Jason Antrosio and Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld’s Fast, Easy, and In Cash explores how small-scale production and global capitalism are not directly opposed, but rather are essential partners in economic development. Antrosio and Colloredo-Mansfeld demonstrate how artisan trades evolve in modern Latin American communities. In uncertain economies, small manufacturers have adapted to excel at home-based production, design, technological efficiency, and investments. Vivid case studies illuminate this process: peasant farmers in Túquerres, Otavalo weavers, Tigua painters, and the t-shirt industry of Atuntaqui. Fast, Easy, and In Cash exposes how these ambitious artisans, far from being holdovers from the past, are crucial for capitalist innovation in their communities and provide indispensable lessons in how we should understand and cultivate local economies in this era of globalization.

Author : Kimberly M. Grimes,Barbara Lynne Milgram
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0816520887

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Artisans and Cooperatives by Kimberly M. Grimes,Barbara Lynne Milgram Pdf

With new markets opening up for goods produced by artisans from all parts of the world, craft commercialization and craft industries have become key components of local economies. Now with the emergence of the Fair Trade movement and public opposition to sweatshop labor, many people are demanding that artisans in third world countries not be exploited for their labor. Bringing together case studies from the Americas and Asia, this timely collection of articles addresses the interplay among subsistence activities, craft production, and the global market. It contributes to current debates on economic inequality by offering practical examples of the political, economic, and cultural issues surrounding artisan production as an expressive vehicle of ethnic and gender identity. Striking a balance between economic and ethnographic analyses, the contributors observe what has worked and what hasn't in a range of craft cooperatives and show how some artisans have expanded their entrepreneurial role by marketing crafts in addition to producing them. Among the topics discussed are the accommodation of craft traditions in the global market, fair trade issues, and the emerging role of the anthropologist as a proactive agent for artisan groups. As the gap between rich and poor widens, the fate of subsistence economies seems more and more uncertain. The artisans in this book show that people can and do employ innovative opportunities to develop their talents, and in the process strengthen their ethnic identities. Contents Introduction: Facing the Challenges of Artisan Production in the Global Market / Kimberly M. Grimes and B. Lynne Milgram Democratizing International Production and Trade: North American Alternative Trading Organizations / Kimberly M. Grimes Building on Local Strengths: Nepalese Fair Trade Textiles / Rachel MacHenry "That They Be in the Middle, Lord": Women, Weaving, and Cultural Survival in Highland Chiapas, Mexico / Christine E. Eber The International Craft Market: A Double-Edged Sword for Guatemalan Maya Women / Martha Lynd Of Women, Hope, and Angels: Fair Trade and Artisan Production in a Squatter Settlement in Guatemala City / Brenda Rosenbaum Reorganizing Textile Production for the Global Market: WomenÕs Craft Cooperatives in Ifugao, Upland Philippines / B. Lynne Milgram Textile Production in Rural Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Complexities of the Global Market for Handmade Crafts / Jeffrey H. Cohen "Part-Time for Pin Money": The Legacy of Navajo WomenÕs Craft Production / Kathy MÕCloskey The Hard Sell: Anthropologists as Brokers of Crafts in the Global Marketplace / Andrew Causey Postscript: To Market, To Market / June Nash

Author : Vanessa Ratten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000582260

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Entrepreneurship in Creative Crafts by Vanessa Ratten Pdf

Popular eCommerce platforms like Etsy have attributed to a sharp increase in creative craft entrepreneurs, and craft entrepreneurship has strong links to the cultural and lifestyle field. This timely book looks at craft entrepreneurship and defines what qualifies as craft entrepreneurs and their products in a global context. The edited book begins with an overview of the craft sector and each chapter provides a holistic picture of what craft entrepreneurship entails. Different kinds of creative crafts are examined, providing a discussion of what entrepreneurship in creative crafts involves, how they differ from other types of products, and how craft makers may engage in entrepreneurial behaviour and marketing. The book helps readers understand the current state of development of the craft sector, its various challenges, and what the future holds for these businesses. Craft entrepreneurship is a new, emerging area of entrepreneurship study, and this book will interest scholars and those who are interested in craft making and wish to develop it into a small business.

Author : Tüzünkan, Demet,Alt?nta?, Volkan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522557616

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Contemporary Human Resources Management in the Tourism Industry by Tüzünkan, Demet,Alt?nta?, Volkan Pdf

The tourism industry is the largest service industry and the largest employment generator in the world. This was made possible by increasing globalization and disposable income, with the labor force playing an important role. Factors such as quality of services and business performance depend on a well-educated, well-trained, skilled, enthusiastic, and committed workforce. Contemporary Human Resources Management in the Tourism Industry is a pivotal reference source that provides research on the role of human resource departments in creating value for the workplace through innovation and efficient work processes. While highlighting topics such as organizational structure, gender equality, and employee motivation, this publication explores the development of organizational culture, as well as methods of translating business strategy into action through dramatically managing staff on all levels in the tourism industry. This book is ideally designed for human resources managers, business owners, business professionals, researchers, and academicians seeking current research on the organizational skills and strategies necessary in creating effective tourism businesses.

Author : Sanjay Kathuria,Virginia A. Miralao,Rebecca Joseph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Artisans
ISBN : UCSD:31822005211206

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Artisan Industries in Asia by Sanjay Kathuria,Virginia A. Miralao,Rebecca Joseph Pdf

Given the large economic contributions provided by Asia's artisan industries in terms of new employment and foreign exchange, there is little formal information available, a deficiency which this document sets out to change. It discusses and presents data on Indian craft exports for the world market, labour conditions in the Philippine craft industries, labour conditions in the Indonesian batik industry, women's role in this batik industry and occupational segregation.

Author : Kenn Oberrecht,Patrice Lewis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780762769292

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How to Start a Home-based Craft Business by Kenn Oberrecht,Patrice Lewis Pdf

Everything you need to know to run a profitable and satisfying craft business from your home From business and financial planning to marketing your business both online and through traditional outlets, this comprehensive guide provides practical solutions and solid advice on how to tap your creative skills to earn a living. Learn all about business plans, finding supplies on the Internet, publicity, zoning ordinances, and much more. Whatever your goals are, join the thousands of successful crafters, artists, and entrepreneurs, and experience the satisfaction of establishing and building your own home-based craft business. Look for useful charts and worksheets throughout the book, including: Market Survey Form Estimated Start-Up Costs Profit and Loss Projection/Report Balance Sheet Sample Invoice

Author : Mary A. Littrell,Marsha A. Dickson
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781565493780

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Artisans and Fair Trade by Mary A. Littrell,Marsha A. Dickson Pdf

* Addresses the cultural conditions under which artisan work provides a feasible income alternative to other employment options * Offers a methodology for assessing the socio-economic impacts of fair trade artisan work After agriculture and tourism, artisan work provides the next most significant source of income in many developing countries. Yet because of its image as a soft or frivolous industry, some politicians and development professionals question whether the handcraft sector is worthy of investment. An opposing view holds that the creation of sustainable employment opportunities for poor people and a positive alternative to mass production outweighs the costs. Until now, the debate has been hampered by a lack of industry data. The apparel group MarketPlace: Handwork of India serves as the perfect case study to provide this missing information. Like many fair trade companies, it has dual goals: to generate income in the global marketplace and foster the empowerment of the low-income workers who run and staff the business. In conducting interviews with MarketPlace’s artisans, managers, and founders, Littrell and Dickson produced an in-depth socio-economic audit of the group over time. The result, Artisans and Fair Trade, provides a quantitatively and qualitatively illuminating study of fair trade impacts and a methodology that is sure to inform current assessment practices in social entrepreneurship and business social responsibility.

Author : Inge Hill,Sara R. S. T. A. Elias,Stephen Dobson,Paul Jones
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781803824130

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Creative (and Cultural) Industry Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century by Inge Hill,Sara R. S. T. A. Elias,Stephen Dobson,Paul Jones Pdf

Both volumes of Creative (and Cultural) Industry Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century map and elucidate the adaptations and challenges faced by the creative professionals and the entrepreneurial solutions they have co-developed.