An account of labor market inequality in the craft beer industry
First paragraph: Handcrafted Careers by Eli Revelle Yano Wilson successfully describes the racialized, classed, and gendered dimensions of work in the craft beer industry. The book’s research question might be stated as: How does systemic inequality in the labor market manifest in the artisanal...
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| Language: | English |
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Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development |
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| Online Access: | https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/1366 |
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Handcrafted Careers by Eli Revelle Yano Wilson successfully describes the racialized, classed, and gendered dimensions of work in the craft beer industry. The book’s research question might be stated as: How does systemic inequality in the labor market manifest in the artisanal craft beer industry? Wilson proposes that artisanal jobs in this new economy are much more idiosyncratic and entrepreneurial, and thus subject to more variation than the expected patterns shaped by structures of race, class and gender. While most research on artisanal markets suggests the opposite—that whiteness and gentrification shape access to these artisanal spaces—Wilson poses the possibility that maybe, in spite of this research, craft beer will be different. However, he finds that privilege exerts its influence here as well. “Bearded white guys” enjoy access to exhibit pure passion in the creative pathway, whereas women typically end up on the service path, and minority males are assigned hard labor roles, such as distribution and canning. And so: labor market inequality in the craft beer industry must be addressed in terms of race, class, and gender and acknowledge that micro-level interactions reproduce an invisible system of power that shapes career choices. . . .
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| ISSN: | 2152-0801 |