I think that one of the most interesting things about the way in which social wasps are managed here in rural Japan is that there is no top-down management of wasp keeping. Instead, in recent decades, people have begun to practise 'wasp-husbandry' in an increasingly intensive way. Could this be an example of grassroots domestication, in its early stages?
The picture below shows a present-day wasp hive in Kushihara (left), and diagram of a wasp hive dating from 1916 (right), the earliest known mention of wasp husbandry.