Artisans and Guilds, History of

Ehmer, Josef

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“…This manual work requires tools, job specialization and development and honing of skills. Production of handcrafts cannot be considered a subsistence activity, but a job supplying markets and consumers who are ever more demanding (Ehmer, 2015).…”

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“…Handcrafts and artisans are intimately related with the history of the guilds, which were associations of craftsmen that existed in many historic societies and cultures (Ehmer, 2015). The Parisian guilds were strong because they served both their members and society, that is, the guilds were associations whose economic policy was the social function of the association and the struggle in defense of the guilds (Hickson and Thompson, 1991).…”

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The creative economy: an ethnographic framework for handcrafts in the Alto Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon

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Uchôa

Mendonça

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to draw on concepts from the creative economy literature to present a proposal for conceptualizing the creative industries from the perspective of the ideas underlying the concepts of industrial districts and the triple helix. The analysis lays out the foundations with a review of the literature on the creative economy and builds upon them with the terminology of creative industries and industrial districts.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis lays out the foundations with a review of the literature on the creative economy and builds upon them with the terminology of creative industries and industrial districts. A three-dimensional representation is developed, from a perspective in which the three dimensions comprise university, creative industries and government, combined with seven underlying factors that define the archetypal framework from the perspective of the creative economy of the region's handcrafts.FindingsWorking from the principal of an analysis of underlying factors, the paper presents an ethnographic study of the potentials and obstacles present in the handcrafts sector and delineates the work that remains to be done to enable construction of a creative economy.Originality/valueA prominent possibility based on the ethnographic study of the potentials listed, the creative economy of the handicraft sector is underexplored in the Amazon. Based on the Amazon heritage of the people in the Alto Solimões region, future prospects such as establishment of guilds, clusters and internationalization of production in a tourism association represent sui generis potentials for the economic development of the Alto Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon.

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The creative economy: an ethnographic framework for handcrafts in the Alto Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon

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“…48 48 See Ehmer, ‘Traditionelles Denken’, and idem, ‘Artisans and guilds’, for recent surveys of the literature, with extensive references. The argument is spelled out briefly in Epstein, ‘Craft guilds’, and more extensively in idem, ‘Labour mobility’, which also discusses why the Low Countries had few journeymen associations (Ogilvie, ‘Guilds, efficiency’, p. 318): the short travelling distances between towns obviated the need for a supra‐regional information‐gathering organization. …”

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Craft guilds in the pre‐modern economy: a discussion

Epstein

2008

The Economic History Review

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This article challenges the view, voiced especially by S. Ogilvie, that the 'revisionist' interpretation of the history of craft guilds is wide of the mark. The paper suggests that Ogilvie oversimplifies the revisionist position; ignores significant new work on European crafts; as a result underestimates the role of the guilds in England and the Low Countries; and incorrectly presents her own case study of the Württemberg worsted industry as typical of European industry in general. Rather than a return to what amounts to a generalized eighteenth-century debunking of the guilds, the paper pleads for more quantitative and regionally specified investigations of the economic contributions of craft guilds.

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Evaluation of artisan training in metal silo construction for grain storage in Africa: Impact on uptake, entrepreneurship and income

Ndegwa

Gitonga

2015

International Journal of Educational Development

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Artisans and Guilds, History of

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

The creative economy: an ethnographic framework for handcrafts in the Alto Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon

The creative economy: an ethnographic framework for handcrafts in the Alto Solimões region of the Brazilian Amazon

Craft guilds in the pre‐modern economy: a discussion

Evaluation of artisan training in metal silo construction for grain storage in Africa: Impact on uptake, entrepreneurship and income

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