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"According to Etsy, the 'eBay for the handmade', $1.35 billion in merchandise sales flowed through their website in 2013. While Etsy may be the highest-profile online site enabling small creative producers to market internationally, it represents just part of a wider turn to home-base...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"According to Etsy, the 'eBay for the handmade', $1.35 billion in merchandise sales flowed through their website in 2013. While Etsy may be the highest-profile online site enabling small creative producers to market internationally, it represents just part of a wider turn to home-based creative micro-enterprise. Enabled by the global distribution affordances of the internet, increasing numbers of makers, a majority of them women, are working from home, often as a way of balancing caring responsibilities with paid employment. Craft and the Creative Economy examines the place of craft in the c |
| Carrier Form: | xvi,187 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781137399649 : 1137399643 |
| Index Number: | HD9999 |
| CLC: | F407.899 |
| Call Number: | F407.899/L941 |
| Contents: | 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." |