Fast, Easy, and In Cash : Artisan Hardship and Hope in the Global Economy /

"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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Antrosio, Jason (Autor), Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Temas:
Artisans > Andes Region > Economic conditions.
Artisans > Andes Region.
Cottage industries > Andes Region.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
economic policy, development, growth economics, artisans, cheese, wine, baskets, branding, marketing, sales, big business, handmade goods, cultural anthropology, entrepreneurship, ecuador, colombia, small-scale production, global capitalism, artisan trades, latin american communities, small manufacturers, home-based, technological efficiency, investments, case studies, peasant farmers, otavalo weavers, tigua painters, t-shirt industry, local economies, globalization.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: Tradition, Innovation, and Artisan Economy in the Northern Andes
  • 1. The Artisan Returns: Invasive Trades, Invaded Communities
  • 2. Fast Easy Cash: Artisan Risk and Peasant Markets
  • 3. Winner- Take- All Competition: How Artisan Stardom Sustains Artisan Production
  • 4. Information- Age Indian Market: Innovation in Moderation
  • 5. Artisan Public Economies and Cluster Development
  • 6. Designing Dreams: Innovation and Tradition in the Artisan Cultural Commons
  • Conclusion: Andean Lessons in Artisan- Led Revitalization
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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