Craft and the Creative Economy, 2015

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.

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 Work–Life 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'

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.