Adventures in Fair Trade

Helping Laotian artisans find larger markets to preserve age-old skills and improve living standardsMark Sloneker,fair trade, Orijyn, Laos, artisans, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social business, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, silk, silver, Participatory Development Training Centre, handcrafts, fair trade federation

Vocational Skill Mobility and Its Effect on Occupational Engagement Among Tradesmen and Craftsmen in Building Sector

Building sector in Nigeria has suffered skill erosion overtime. Foreigners with special skill has mobilized their skill into the sector and there had been mass exodus of imported skills into the sector thereby forcing citizens to jettison idea of engaging indigenous artisans in the face of superior skills and knowledge. The aim of the study is to appraise the vocational skills and competence of the indigenous and foreign artisans, vocational mobility in building sector, job mobility pattern among artisans, sectors involved, attendant effects, both favorable and unfavorable, and possible ways of addressing identified threat. The study engaged 120 questionnaire using random sampling technique. The questionnaire was designed in Likert scale, structured on sematic rating scale 1 to 5. The study identified the following reasons among others reasons behind the disparity in occupational engagement among artisans in Nigeria building sector, the reasons include: inadequate skill and knowledge by indigenous artisans, no vocational focus, half -baked knowledge of the work, poor workmanship and poor finishing and poor education background or lack of former education among others. The study recommended the following factors as panacea to the problem; reinvigoration of artisans competence, continuous training of the artisans, value reorientation of artisans, promoting technology transfer among indigenous artisans and foreign artisans

Recrutement, mobilité professionnelle et reproduction sociale des artisans de Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, 1740-1810

Jusqu’à ce jour, les travaux sur les artisans du Canada préindustriel ont permis de mieux saisir les principaux traits familiaux et sociaux de certains métiers. Toutefois, la majorité des auteurs se sont surtout intéressés aux artisans urbains. Cet article vise à mieux définir le portrait social des artisans ruraux de la région de Montréal au tournant du XIXe siècle. Nous cherchons plus spécifiquement à définir les modalités de recrutement et la cohésion sociale de l’ensemble des artisans d’une communauté rurale spécifique : Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu. Nous définissons d’abord l’origine géographique et sociale des familles artisanales de cette paroisse. Puis, nous vérifions le degré de mobilité professionnelle de ces artisans à l’intérieur de leur cycle de vie. Nous abordons finalement les aspects de la mobilité ou de l’enracinement des artisans dans cette région sous l’angle de la reproduction familiale et sociale.Studies of artisans in pre-industrial French Canada have given us a better understanding of the workings of certain trades and the characteristics of families in a broader social setting. Most authors, however, have studied urban artisans. This paper seeks to lend precision to the social portrait of rural artisans in the Montreal region early in the nineteenth century. More specifically, it attempts to define the modes of recruitment and the bases of the social cohesion of all the artisans of one rural community: Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu. First, the paper traces the geographic and social origins of the artisan families of this parish, before measuring the degree of professional mobility of the artisans through their lives. Finally, aspects of mobility and stability of the members of the group are studied in the context of family and social reproduction

Pemberdayaan Perajin Batik Di Kabupaten Kebumen

One of the concepts of community development to reduce poverty is community empowerment. Kebumen regency has sought to empower the batik artisans in Kebumen regency. The purpose of this study are explaining the effort that have been made by the Government in empowering batik artisans in Kebumen regency, identifying the inhibiting and supporting factors of empowering batik artisans in Kebumen, and formulating the empowernment strategies of batik artisans in Kebumen regency. SWOT analysis is used to answer the research objectives. This research used descriptive qualitative methode. The informants are Service employees of Kebumen Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs); employees of Industry, Trade and Market Kebumen; and Batik artisans in Kebumen regency. The result explain that the government have tried to provide batik equipment, involving batik artisans in various exhibitions, and improving the skills of batik artisans by providing education and training program. There are 10 inhibiting factors and 10 supporting factors of empowering batik artisans in Kebumen regency. Based on the analysis, obtained 8 strategic issues in this research. Litmus Test is used to measure the strategic program that has been identified previously. Finally, 5 empowerment strategies formulated to empower batik artisans in Kebumen regency

e-Artisans: Contemporary Design for the Global Market

The aim of GoGlobal Ghana was to consider whether the creative industries in a developing country could be nurtured through design collaboration and an e-commerce model to contribute significant economic growth through increasing the level of international trade. The project was initiated with three phases planned for execution: a creative studio with design students from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London and the Kwame Nkruma University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana, an e-commerce process for supply, distribution and marketing; and finally a “hub” location to facilitate project delivery and dissemination to other African regions

Résidence et liens de parenté des artisans de Montréal en 1741

Les recherches sur les artisans se sont souvent attachées à mieux comprendre les aspects particuliers de chaque profession. Moins fréquemment, les historiens se sont attardés aux dynamiques propres à l’ensemble du groupe, en particulier dans le cadre urbain, lieu de leur regroupement. Dans cet article, les auteurs élucident certains aspects du comportement des artisans de Montréal à l’aide du recensement de 1741. L’objectif central est de comprendre l’incidence des pratiques des artisans sur leur répartition spatiale dans la ville. Ils tentent ainsi de circonscrire les facteurs qui déterminent les tendances aux regroupements entre ménages artisans. Ils affirment que les réseaux de parenté et l’appartenance à un métier artisan sont les deux causes de proximité de résidence. Ainsi nuancent-ils certains constats antérieurs de l’historiographie quant à l’existence et aux causes d’une répartition spatiale dans cette ville de la Nouvelle-France. De plus, ils abordent certains processus de reproduction sociale des artisans montréalais de cette époque.Research about artisans is usually focused on an improved understanding of each other occupation. Historians approach less often the dynamics of craft groups, especially in towns, where most of these groups emerged. In this paper, the authors examine Montreal artisans listed in the census of 1741. The main aim is to understand quantitatively how craft practices affected spatial distribution in the town, and thus discover what factors determined where artisan families lived. The authors conclude that family kinship and craft occupation were the main reasons artisans lived where they did. This enables a refinement of earlier historical scholarship about spatial distribution in this town of New France, and the reasons for it. In addition, they discuss some methods of social reproduction among Montreal craftsmen of the period

Keynote address on production, utilization and marketing in fisheries status and opportunities

Fish production from Nigeria comes mainly from 3 sources, namely - artisans engaged in either part-time or full-time fishing, commercial trawlers fishing in inshore and offshore waters, and fish farming in enclosures (ponds, tanks and raceways). An account is given of the current situation in Nigeria, considering over exploitation of fish, the fish's environment, fish utilization, and fish marketin

Artisans and the Marketing of Ethnicity: Globalization, Indigenous Identity and Nobility Principle In Micro-Enterprise Development

As a constructed category of human difference, \u27ethnicity\u27 has given way to \u27culture\u27 in its shared genealogy in the new millennium. Public knowledge about such phenomena as \u27ethnic cleansing\u27, debates on immigration, and the use of ethnicity as both a dependent and independent variable in research and policy are central realities in the domestic and foreign policies of many nations. The social psychology of group affiliation, nationalism, and the use of ethnicity (as well as gender) in workplace diversity, or the deployment of ethnicity in electoral politics continues to perplex and complicate human social interaction