Circumstances forced us into it (taking up a bit of artisanship) (9)
I believe the answer is:
situation
'circumstances' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'forced us into it taking up a bit of artisanship' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
an anagram of 'into' is 'tion' which is located in the answer.
'it' could be 't' (abbreviation. e.g. in 'tis) and 't' is located in the answer.
'a' is found in the answer.
'bit' could be 'i' (resembles 1, a binary digit or bit) and 'i' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for situation that I've seen before include "Job; set of circumstances" , "Position" , "State of affairs -- job" , "Post" , "Location; job" .)