[Tagging] sneaking in tags in the wiki
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdreist at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 15:40:16 BST 2010
2010/9/15 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> On 16 September 2010 06:52, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> this might be a cultural difference, but IMHO craft is the mere
>> opposite of industrial
>
> It's somewhere between hobby and industrial...
It is not industrial, because it operates at a much smaller scale and
there is less division of labour.
it's not hobby, because they are all professionals, what is the
opposite of hobby, but you can do all this stuff as hobby as well (and
then it wouldn't be "craft" but hobby). It is something archaic,
referring to the middleages and to guilds. We actually still have the
guilds (kind of) in Germany. It has to do with traditions, permission
to do work in certain regulated professions, and so on. Basically they
control the formation/education of people in their field of operation
and used to control the market. Since not so long ago this changed a
bit due to the European Community, but there is still a lot of
reference to old traditions, especially in certain professions like
carpentry (see these pictures to get an impression):
http://www.freiburg-schwarzwald.de/fotos09jan/walz090203.jpg
http://www.nwzonline.de/nwz-bilder/art_gr/2009/05/28/_heprod_images_fotos_1_12_16_20090528_bild_zimmermann_neu.jpg
http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/00612/cn_beckstein_trink2_612612p.jpg
http://www.zimmerei-stefan-kraft.de/Fotos/Richtfest.jpg
http://www.bbs-burgdorf-lehrte.de/aktuelles/62/9.jpg
http://www.baeckerei-alber.at/team/team_baecker.jpg
cheers,
Martin
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