Detroit – The Artisanal Economies Project

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Reading them the riot act, and other (possible) secrets of artisanal management

April 30, 2017 — 0 Comments

(This list is just getting started. Our first entries:)

■ Mandray, Nora. 2017. “Farming in the Middle of the Motor City – a Patch of Green in the Rust Belt” | Aeon. here.

■ Fisman, Ray, and Helaine Olen. 2012. “The New Artisan Economy.” Slate, July 16. here.

■ Kamp, David. 2006. The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. Broadway. here.

■ Crawford, Matthew B. 2009. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. Penguin Books. here.

■ Vaughan, Melissa Schreiber, Susanne König, and Heather Weston. 2015. Made in Brooklyn: An Essential Guide to the Borough’s Artisanal Food & Drink Makers. Brooklyn: PowerHouse Books. here.

■ Warner, Nick, ed. 2014. Made by Hand. Black Dog Publishing. here.

■ McNamee, Thomas. 2008. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse. Penguin. here.

■ Chafkin, Max, and Jing Cao. 2017. “The Barbarians Are at Etsy’s Hand-Hewn, Responsibly Sourced Gates.” Bloomberg.com, May 18. here.

■ School of the New American Farmstead. Sterling College. here.

■ Ocejo, Richard E. 2017. Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy. Princeton University Press. here.

■ Abrams, Rachel, and Robert Gebeloff. 2017. “In Towns Already Hit by Steel Mill Closings, a New Casualty: Retail Jobs” – The New York Times. here. Accessed June 27.

■ IZA World of Labor. 2017. “Nearly 80% of Prisoners Are Interested in Starting Their Own Business.” ART + Marketing. June 28. here.