Problems and Challenges of Artisans after Globalization: An Overview

The artistic works and handicrafts are playing significant role in supporting main occupations such as agriculture and industries, especially in rural areas and majority of these works are caste based ancestral occupations. These works include carpentry, weaving, gold smithy, pottery, etc. On the other hand, globalization policies have encouraged the technology transfer, trade and commerce across the world and as an impact of globalization, there is increase in large scale industrial organizations, which produce the goods, which were earlier manufactured by artisans manually. After globalization, the increase in industries has become threat to artisans causing poverty and unemployment. Consequently, the artisans are facing many of the problems and challenges now. The paper focused on the problems and challenges faced by artisans after globalization.