2010/9/15 John Smith <[email protected]>: > On 16 September 2010 06:52, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> > wrote: >> this might be a cultural difference, but IMHO craft is the mere >> opposite of industrial > > It's somewhere between hobby and industrial...
It is not industrial, because it operates at a much smaller scale and there is less division of labour. it's not hobby, because they are all professionals, what is the opposite of hobby, but you can do all this stuff as hobby as well (and then it wouldn't be "craft" but hobby). It is something archaic, referring to the middleages and to guilds. We actually still have the guilds (kind of) in Germany. It has to do with traditions, permission to do work in certain regulated professions, and so on. Basically they control the formation/education of people in their field of operation and used to control the market. Since not so long ago this changed a bit due to the European Community, but there is still a lot of reference to old traditions, especially in certain professions like carpentry (see these pictures to get an impression): http://www.freiburg-schwarzwald.de/fotos09jan/walz090203.jpg http://www.nwzonline.de/nwz-bilder/art_gr/2009/05/28/_heprod_images_fotos_1_12_16_20090528_bild_zimmermann_neu.jpg http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archive/00612/cn_beckstein_trink2_612612p.jpg http://www.zimmerei-stefan-kraft.de/Fotos/Richtfest.jpg http://www.bbs-burgdorf-lehrte.de/aktuelles/62/9.jpg http://www.baeckerei-alber.at/team/team_baecker.jpg cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
