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oapen-20.500.12657-425672020-10-14T00:41:53Z Craftspeople and Designer Makers in the Contemporary Creative Economy Luckman, Susan Andrew, Jane Cultural Policy and Politics Small Business Australasian Culture Entrepreneurship Craft Designer Makers Self-employment Micro-enterprise Creative Industries Creative Careers open access Politics & government Cultural studies Small businesses & self-employed bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJV Ownership & organization of enterprises::KJVS Small businesses & self-employed bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Drawing upon 180 interviews with peak organisations, established and emerging makers, and four years of fieldwork across Australia, this book offers a unique insight into the motivations informing those who seek to make an income from their craft or designer maker practice, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing them as they do so at this time of renewed interest internationally in the artisanal and handmade. Offering a rich and deep collection of real-life experiences, this book is aimed both at an academic and practitioner audience. 2020-10-13T12:29:56Z 2020-10-13T12:29:56Z 2020 book ONIX_20201013_9783030449797_39 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42567 eng Creative Working Lives application/pdf n/a 2020_Book_CraftspeopleAndDesignerMakersI.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-44979-7 10.1007/978-3-030-44979-7 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 Palgrave Macmillan 259 open access
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This open access book explores the experience of working as a craftsperson or designer maker in the contemporary creative economy. The authors utilise evidence from the only major empirical study to explore the skills required and the challenges facing contemporary makers in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Drawing upon 180 interviews with peak organisations, established and emerging makers, and four years of fieldwork across Australia, this book offers a unique insight into the motivations informing those who seek to make an income from their craft or designer maker practice, as well as the challenges and opportunities facing them as they do so at this time of renewed interest internationally in the artisanal and handmade. Offering a rich and deep collection of real-life experiences, this book is aimed both at an academic and practitioner audience.
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