Crafts: Is the “worker” the future of the artisan?

Craft trades thrive on the tension between the rarity expected by customers and the productivity demanded by markets. The temptation to separate the worker from the work is great. For Raphaëlle Le Baud, founder of the Métiers Rares agency and the podcast The Craft Project, it is by protecting this sacred alliance between the mind and the hand that crafts can once again prosper. Drawing on the reflections of an association president, an entrepreneur, and a sociologist, she asks: halfway between craftspeople and craft workers, are "workers" the future of crafts?