French artisan food co-operatives at the intersection between the artisan dimension and industrial logic – A two case study analysis

• DOI: 10.31098/ijmesh.v3i2.244
• Publication Date: 2021-07-15T04:44:50Z
• Authors: Simon Adderley; Lee Gray
• Keywords: Craft; Factory (object-oriented programming)

This article provides two case studies of food manufacturing co-operatives in France. Both were formed after large multi-national firms ceased a specific factory and the workers, rather than accepting redundancies, established an artisan production company based on “traditional” techniques co-operative values. In order to do this it utilises often overlooked literature craft movement. While has been primarily developed around emergence artisanship third world will be argued that such conceptualisations are also useful when exploring development amongst companies who re-establishing their traditional ways working, even “developed world”. doing so builds work Dickie Frank (1996) stated “through crafts, tradition is maintained and/or invented, marketed consumers find other meanings objects.” The theoretical construct posited by maintains businesses with non-traditional economic models actually faced complex multi-faceted series pulls number different directions. Furthermore themselves as manufacturers using locally sourced materials democratic governance can directly compared producers from developing world. draws attention parallels between important research areas which have not linked before. By implications for mechanisms support given emerging priori assumptions underpin current policy.