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  2. Handicraft - Wikipedia

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    Batik craftswomen in Java, Indonesia Savisiipi handicrafts store in Pori, Finland A handicraft Selling-Factory shop, Isfahan, Iran Artesanato Mineiro. A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials ...

  3. Economics terminology that differs from common usage

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    Welfare economics is a branch of economics that uses microeconomic techniques to evaluate economic well-being, especially relative to competitive general equilibrium, with a focus on economic efficiency and income distribution. [13] In general usage, including by economists outside the above context, welfare refers to a form of transfer payment ...

  4. Industrial Workers of the World philosophy and tactics

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    "At the Parting of the Ways", a cartoon from the May 1919 Industrial Workers of the World periodical One Big Union which shows a worker representing the working class choosing between a path of craft unionism towards the AFL slogan "A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work" and a path of industrial unionism towards the IWW slogan "Abolition of the Wage System"

  5. Craftwork - Wikipedia

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    A craftwork is an applied form of art, a social and cultural product reflecting the inclusive nature of folk imagination. Craftwork may refer to: . Handicraft, work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools

  6. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  7. Industrial property - Wikipedia

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    Industrial designs are applied to a wide variety of industrial products and handicrafts. They refer to the ornamental or aesthetic aspects of an article, including compositions of lines or colors or any three-dimensional forms that give a special appearance to a product or handicraft. The design must have aesthetic appeal.

  8. Proto-industrialization - Wikipedia

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    Proto-industrialization is the regional development, alongside commercial agriculture, of rural handicraft production for external markets. [1] Cottage industries in parts of Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries had long been a niche topic of study.

  9. Craft - Wikipedia

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    The nature of craft skill and the process of its development are continually debated by philosophers, anthropologists, and cognitive scientists. [1] Some scholars note that craft skill is marked by particular ways of experiencing tools and materials, whether by allowing tools to recede from focal awareness, [2] perceiving tools and materials in terms of their practical interrelationships, [3 ...