Hobby to Hustle: How Knitting Got Monetised

Описание: This is Part 2 of my series 'Craft, Money and Power' where I explore the relationship between Craft, Culture and Identity Politics.

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Resources & Further reading/watching for this episode.

Books:
The New Politics of the Handmade, Anthea Black & Nicole Burisch
Useful Work Versus Useless Toil - William Morris

Articles and Essays:
Trade In Medieval Britain https://www.worldhistory.org/article/...
How Hobbies Changed The Home https:// daily.jstor.org/how-hobbies-changed-the-home/
The Tyranny Of The Algorithm: Why Every Coffee Shop Looks The Same https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024...
Knit Is A Four Letter Word https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
Capitalism Is Dead. Now We Have Something Much Worse. https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
World’s Top 1% https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releas...

Watch:
Fabric of Britain, BBC    • Fabric of Britain - 1  Knitting's Golden A...  
Spies, Socks and Soldiers, Shannon Makes    • Spies, Socks, & Soldiers // The Fascinatin...  
How to Improve Capitalism    • How to Improve Capitalism  
How to Fix the Gig Economy    • How to fix the gig economy - BBC Newsnight  
Unemployment surges    • Unemployment surges to 5.2% -  UK youth hi...