In Rome, artisans and their historic workshops are having difficulty finding labor and passing on the baton to their children. The final example is the Ginocchi leather goods shop on Via Sistina. His grandmother, Giovanna Ginocchi, founded the company in 1917 in the Rome of King Vittorio Emanuele III and Pope Benedict XV. In total, 106 years of history, fashions, and customers are now gone due to a lack of staff. The Confartigianato association issues a warning. "There is a difficulty in finding just under one worker out of two - say the trade association - we are about 49%. There are numerous reasons for this, including a lack of training and technological progress, which is diminishing the appeal and income of artisan work". As a result, there are those who permanently lower the shutter. A piece of craftsmanship is lost because no replacement parts are available. Carpenters, blacksmiths, and goldsmiths are closing. You cannot locate specialized personnel, and you start losing.
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