> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Reference:: Shelby Solomon and Blake Mathias, "Crafted in America: From Culture to Profession" in Bell, Emma, Gianluigi Mangia, Scott Taylor, and Maria Laura Toraldo. 2018. __The Organization of Craft Work: Identities, Meanings, and Materiality__. Routledge. > Date:: 2018 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Economic value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft is an enduring source of employment]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > The maker community is driving local economic activity. ### Highlights > If the craft category continues to grow within America, then the rise of craft may be the answer to sustainably revitalizing the country’s manufacturing sector and creating numerous craft-based “plaid-collar” jobs > There is a **renaissance** happening. It is one thing if you’re a romantic and you want to create a product that is wonderful but if no one wants to buy the product then you’re not going to be doing it for that long—and so what you have happening right now is the intersection of both things. You have a desire of a maker community that wants to do that and then there’s this consumer base that desires it as well. And I think that both of those things are growing simultaneously, which is really fueling the whole movement. (Craft Sausage House)