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The aura of the analogue in a digital age: Women's crafts, creative markets and home-based labour after Etsy
At a time when the success of the Etsy website and the Cath Kidston label (among others) marks out a space where women's home-based crafts practice is elevated from the local market to the high street, this article examines the renewed popularity of the handmade and of craft production and its relation to economies of amateur labour. The article situates the popularity of the handmade original as a desirable aesthetic object and part of a broader return of credibility to previously disparaged women's craft practices. This credibility has occurred via younger consumers as well as through the increased potential the internet has created for small-scale business models, where amateur producers with no formal training can set up a creative business. The focus here is on the Etsy.com online marketplace and its spin-off physical markets, and on those practices employing yarn (for example knitting, crochet, needlepoint and weaving) and fabric (sewing, felting). The article then critically examines the economic, political, technological, social and cultural affordances that have enabled this re-articulation of (largely) women's domestic work. I locate current debates around home-based craft production and creative work historically by turning attention to the nineteenth-century British Arts and Crafts movement, and its longstanding association with progressive labour practices and small-scale production. Finally, the article considers the claims to radicalism made on behalf of design-craft or indie craft scenes after Etsy about the desirability of the homemade and small-scale production models.
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The new normal of working lives : critical studies in contemporary work and employment
This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves. The collection explores the formation of contemporary worker subjects, and the privilege or disadvantage in play around gender, class, age and national location within the global workforce. Organised around the three areas of: creative working, digital working lives, and transitions and transformations, its fifteen chapters examine in detail the emerging norms of work and work activities in a range of occupations and locations. It also investigates the coping strategies adopted by workers to manage novel difficulties and life circumstances, and their understandings of the possibilities, trajectories, mobilities, identities and potential rewards of their work situations. This book will appeal to a wide range of audiences, including students and academics of the sociology of work and labor history, and those interested in understanding the implications of the 'new normal' of work and employment.
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‘There’s a lot of luck involved’: Sustaining hope labour amid workplace inequality and precarity as a creative worker
The challenges of building and sustaining a creative career are well-established, as is the degree to which opportunities are either opened or foreclosed through the complex intersectionality of inequalities. Yet creative aspirants persist in pursuing creative work, sustaining themselves through survival strategies variously theorised as ‘hope labour’ and ‘aspirational labour’. Drawing upon data from an arts mentoring programme, this article explores how ideas of ‘luck’, ‘chance’ and ‘opportunity’ are implicated within such labour as sense-making resources for managing difficulties and justifying persistence in the face of precarity. It argues that the take up of these resources can function as a valuable discursive tool that also contributes to an enabling ‘repertoire of shared myths’ which sustains the career work of artists and many creative workers.
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Craft Economies
Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur and professional making within a wider creative economy. Contributors address a diverse range of practices, sites and forms of making in a wide range of regional and national contexts, from floristry to ceramics and from crochet to coding. The volume considers the role of digital practices of making and the impact of the maker's movement as part of larger trends around customisation, on-demand production, and the possibilities of 3D printing and digital manufacturing.
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\Hay mucha suerte involucrada\: Mantener la esperanza laboral en medio de la desigualdad y la precariedad en el lugar de trabajo como trabajador creativo
Los desafíos de construir y sostener una carrera creativa están bien establecidos, al igual que el grado en que las oportunidades se abren o se excluyen a través de la compleja interseccionalidad de las desigualdades. Sin embargo, los aspirantes creativos persisten en realizar un trabajo creativo, sosteniéndose a sí mismos a través de estrategias de supervivencia teorizadas de diversas formas como \"trabajo de esperanza\" y \"trabajo de aspiración\". Basándose en datos de un programa de tutoría artística, este artículo explora cómo las ideas de \"suerte\", \"ocasión\" y \"oportunidad\" están implicadas en dicho trabajo como recursos que dan sentido a la gestión de las dificultades y a la justificación de la perseverancia frente a la precariedad. Sostiene que la utilización de estos recursos puede funcionar como una valiosa herramienta discursiva que también contribuye a un \"repertorio de mitos compartidos\" habilitador que sustenta la carrera profesional de los artistas y de muchos trabajadores creativos. Palabras clave: Suerte; esperanza de trabajo; carrera creativa; recursos discursivos; tutoría artística The challenges of building and sustaining a creative career are well- established, as is the degree to which opportunities are either opened or foreclosed through the complex intersectionality of inequalities. Yet creative aspirants persist in pursuing creative work, sustaining themselves through survival strategies variously theorised as 'hope labour' and 'aspirational labour'. Drawing upon data from an arts mentoring programme, this article explores how ideas of 'luck', 'chance' and 'opportunity' are implicated within such labour as sense- making resources for managing difficulties and justifying persistence in the face of precarity. It argues that the take up of these resources can function as a valuable discursive tool that also contributes to an enabling 'repertoire of shared myths' which sustains the career work of artists and many creative workers. Keywords: Luck; hope labour; creative career; discursive resources; arts mentoring
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Uncovering Nudity
A review of Ruth Barcan's Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy (Berg, Oxford, 2004).
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Wagging the Long Tail: Digital Distribution and Peripheral Screen Production Industries
In the context of digital media convergence, Richard Harris in his recent monograph Film in the Age of Digital Distribution (2007) acknowledges the need for urgent Australian research into the future of the screen production industry when he says, “I believe that government and industry need to stand back, take a long hard look at where the industry is likely to go over the next ten to twenty years, and start asking questions about the future place of content within it” (Harris, 2007, p.61). The traditional model of distribution, based on the pre-selling of distribution rights to broadcasters and/or cinema distributors to finance a film or television program, gives the gatekeepers (television programmers, commissioning editors, film distributors, financiers) ultimate power to determine which stories will be made available to the public. At a time when user-generated content is becoming increasingly popular, much of what passes for ‘authentic’ user-generated content—low production values, hand-held or desktop camera feel, candid camera aesthetic and all—is in actual fact professionally produced (Burgess and Green 2008). [...]for the later it is possible to keep on the books even the most obscure title as the real costs associated with doing so are next to zero.
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(En)gendering the digital body: feminism and the Internet
Cyberfeminisms, as a popular avenue for contemporary feminist intervention in technologically mediated structures of power (in particular the Internet), have flourished in an environment traditionally hostile to feminist viewpoints and respond to the male dominaton of information technologies. Cyberfeminisms have set out to challenge the male centered culture of the Internet and to imprint their own models of open and accessible computer-mediated communication onto the new technologies.
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