Emma Bell is Professor of Organisation Studies at The Open University, UK.

Gianluigi Mangia is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, and Head of Department of Management, Organizations and Human Resources at the Scuola Nazionale dell'Amministrazione (SNA) in Rome, Italy.

Scott Taylor is Reader in Leadership and Organization Studies at University of Birmingham, UK.

Maria Laura Toraldo is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant and Lecturer at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland.

Introduction: Understanding contemporary craft work

Emma Bell, Maria Laura Toraldo, Scott Taylor and Gianluigi Mangia

1. Craft in Japan

Robin Holt and Yutaka Yamauchi

2. Crafted in America: from culture to profession

Shelby Solomon and Blake Mathias

3. Wine, the authenticity taste regime and rendering craft

Jennifer Smith Maguire

4. Organising the home as making space: crafting scale, identity, and boundary contestation

Susan Luckman and Jane Andrew

5. Smells like craft spirit: craft as empowerment and social movement in niche perfumery

Claus Noppeney and Nada Endrissat

6. Deploying social memory for international recognition: the role of place and tradition in an Italian silk tie maker

Maria Laura Toraldo, Stefano Consiglio and Gianluigi Mangia

7. Back to the brewster: craft brewing, gender and the dialectical interplay of retraditionalisation and innovation

Chris Land, Neil Sutherland and Scott Taylor

8. Craft as a contested term: meaning diversities between entrepreneurs and consumers in the craft-brewing industry

Nadine Waehning, Maria Karampela and Juho Pesonen

9. Making livelihoods within communities of practice: the place of guild organisations in the craft sector

Nicola J. Thomas and Doreen Jakob

10. The cordwainers lair: contingency in bespoke shoemaking

Robert Ott

11. Craft as resistance: a conversation about craftivism, embodied enquiry and craft-based methodologies

Ann Rippin and Sheena J. Vachhani

12. Being maker-centric: making as method for self-organization and achieving craft impact in local communities and economies

Fiona Hackney, Deirdre Figueiredo, Laura Onions, Gavin Rogers and Jana Milovanovic

13. Reflecting on the relationship between craft and history: perspectives, resources and contemporary implications

Richard Blundel