Industrial food -- Hippies counter culture -- Alice Waters, Mark Frauenfelder & Stewart Brand -- Ten waves and three towns -- Twenty-four things that define the artisan -- The artisan and COVID -- Future of the artisan.

Using case studies from Germany, Britain, the United States and Japan, this text traces cross-national differences in contemporary training regimes back to the political settlement achieved among employers in skill-intensive industries, artisans and early trade unions in the 19th century