The value of craft
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2024
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Luckman, S.
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Saad, Q.
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Futuring Craft: The Value of Craft: The Conference Proceedings, 2024 / Saad, Q. (ed./s), pp.210-221
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IOTA24 Futuring Craft: The Value of Craft International Conference (3 Sep 2024 - 6 Sep 2024 : Perth, Australia)
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This paper offers a snapshot of some of the key findings from the Australian Research Council Discovery Project: ‘The value of craft skills to the future of making in Australia’. This five-year mixed-methods study sought to identify where craft skills are employed in the Australian economy, and the financial value of them. It found that in 2021Australia’s craft economy employed 116,538 people (1.1% of the total workforce) and generated $AU19.2bn gross value added (1.0% of the total). By comparison, Australia’s craft economy is slightly larger in size and impact than the sports economy. However,what was also revealed is that as a proportion of the entire economy the Australian craft economy has been in decline since 2006. The rate of decline gathered pace from2011 to 2016 but has notably stabilised in the period 2016 to 2021, with the actual number of skilled craft workers decreasing, but their income and thus gross value added (GVA) increasing as these skills become rare
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Copyright 2024 The author(s), artists, designers, and photographers named herein