France: Le Monde devotes a fortfolio to the recovery of the artisanal sector

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In ten years, business creation in artisanal manufacturing has exploded, driven in particular by the retraining of higher education graduates in search of autonomy and meaning. And we begin to rediscover these craftsmen who we thought had almost disappeared: cutlers, ironworkers, ceramists, jewellers, saddlers, glassmakers, gold leaf experts and other marquetry specialists, who we can find it at the Salon Maison & Objet, from Friday 20 to Tuesday 24 January, in Paris-Villepinte.

INSEE recorded 16,000 new registrations in 2015, after peaking at 20,000 in 2014, compared to 8,100 in 2005.

Hugues Jacquet, socio-historian specializing in know-how and author of L’Intelligence de la main (L’Harmattan, 2012), discusses the changes at work in the relationship to manual work. Hugues Jacquet: First of all, we can mention a constant: there is a correlation between renewed interest in artisanal manufacturing processes and the crisis of the capitalist system. This was the case during the second industrial revolution, in France and in England, in particular with the Arts and Crafts movement of artist-craftsmen led by William Morris, an avowed socialist who advocated the liberation of the worker by returning to work. artisanal.

http://www.lemonde.fr/economie/portfolio/2017/01/16/l-artisanat-reprend-la-main_5063321_3234.html