Industry and Craftsmanship: The Work of Subjectivity

Instead of treating craftsmanship as an activity that is the sole preserve of a specialist, the artisan or craftsman, gifted with skills and answering to a profession, we will extend the question to cover all activities that require skills. In this vein, there are also so-called domestic practices of clothes manufacturing or culinary preparation that exist parallel to the artisanal trades of tailor or chef. We should note that industrialisation hit the domestic sphere just as hard as the artisanal trades of tailor or chef. Since the end of the 19th century, the industrial sphere has replaced many trades in the production and transformation of raw materials.