> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Jean Baudrillard > Reference:: Jean Baudrillard, “The Artisan in the Mirror of Production,” [1973] transl. Mark Foster (New York: Telos Press, 1975), 96–105 > Date:: 1975 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Social value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft strengthens relationships between members of a cultural group]]; [[Claim - Craft offers fairer and more satisfying working conditions]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary >  Artisanship resists the commodity. ### Highlights Jean Baudrillard studied artisanal communities, or self-regulating groups of producers and consumers, able to establish a discrete economy to that of manufacture. In his words, the artisanal class is predicated upon: >emotive social relations in which not only is the process of production controlled by the producer but in which the collective processes remain internal to the group, and in which producers and consumers are the same people, above all defined through the reciprocity of the group