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"I make what I make" : = Petty commodity production in suburban America.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"I make what I make" :/
Reminder of title:	Petty commodity production in suburban America.
Author:	Dickie, Virginia Allen.
Description:	1 online resource (354 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04, Section: A, page: 1708.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-04A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
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"I make what I make" : = Petty commodity production in suburban America.
Dickie, Virginia Allen.

"I make what I make" :Petty commodity production in suburban America. - 1 online resource (354 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04, Section: A, page: 1708.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

This is an ethnography of the work of self-employed producers of crafts who sell their work directly to consumers at craft fairs in Southeastern Michigan. The goal of the research was to describe the manner in which crafters experience, define, and structure the domains of work, home, and marketplace. Data were obtained through participant observation at craft fairs in nine suburban cities/townships over the course of one year, and from interviews in their homes and workshops with crafters identified at these fairs. Production and direct-selling of crafts are manifestations of household income-generating strategies during a transition period between industrial and postindustrial economies. Such activities have the flexibility to meet multiple household needs including caring for others and generating income for living expenses and/or special events and luxuries. Despite the location in a metropolitan area, this work is similar to petty commodity production in peasant societies worldwide.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179959
Cultural anthropology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a Crafters' main way to achieve greater income is to increase production through improved efficiency and greater hours of work. The craft fair is essential to economic success for people who work alone making inexpensive crafts. Tremendous growth in the number of events and craft producers was occurring at the time of this study. Competition to get into the best events and seemingly capricious jurying processes place crafters in a vulnerable position. Crafters experience additional competition from inexpensive imported work. The low cost of labor in "peripheral" economies has the effect of lowering the "wages" of craft producers in America, but can provide crafters with numerous inexpensive materials as well.
520 $a Craft production at home is private work, but crafters have developed an occupational subculture maintained through craft fairs. As individuals, their work is determined by their own actions. As household members, they adjust work to meet family responsibilities. Craft work is unalienated work, with direct contact between the producer and consumer.
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