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.

Auteur
Susan Luckman is Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of Locating Cultural Work (2012), and co-editor of Sonic Synergies (2008), an anthology on creative music cultures and the global economy.

Contenu
Introduction 1. Craft Revival: The Post-Etsy Handmade Economy 2. Crafts as Creative Industry 3. Material Authenticity and the Renaissance of the Handmade: The Aura of the Analogue (or 'The Enchantment of Making') 4. Craft Micro-Enterprise, Gender and WorkLife Relationships 5. 'Self-Making' and Marketing the Crafty Self 6. Craft Work and 'the Good Life': Creative Economic Possibilities 7. Conclusion - Craft Micro-Economies: More than 'Cool Capitalism'