Research On The Application Of Group Work On Intangible Cultural Heritage And The Reemployment Of Landless Women

Changshu lace is also called Changshu Cutwork lace,it is one of China's famous hand carved embroidery products,originated from the medieval europe.A woman in Changshu Xupu learned lace from Shanghai Teresa Catholic Church.From liberation to 1980 s,Changshu lace products has become an important export product.The number of lace part-time employees reached more than 160 thousand people at the height of power and splendour.Rural women and children in Changshu embroidered lace to supplement the family income in the slack time.At the end of 80 s,the traditional Changshu lace handicraft product has encountered the formidable competition and declined with the mechanization and mass production of embroidery.After twenty-first Century,more and more attention has been paid to the protection and inheritance of traditional handicraft.In 2007,Changshu declared the Jiangsu intangible cultural heritage project.This opens the road to the inheritance and innovation of Changshu lace.At the same time,since the reform and opening up,especially since twenty-first Century,Changshu's urbanization process has been accelerated.Bixi,Xupu,Wu City and so on in 2015 be builted new Bixi District,the number of landless farmers is rising rapidly.The older women in the land acquisition,regardless of age,education level,or in terms of labor skills,are in a disadvantage in the non-agricultural labor market.They can be difficult to re-employment.And most of them happen to be the dominant force in Changshu lace's heyday.For this reason,Changshou City District Women's Federation combined the reemployment of landless women with the protection and inheritance of Changshu lace,and designed a project named “the dexterous daughter-in-law weaving the future”.This project successfully received the Changshou City women's Federation of the second women's children and families to benefit from minimally invasive.It based on the perspective of advantage,used group work methods,At the same time of Changshu lace heritage protection and innovation,enhanced the re employment skills of landless women.The group through a series of lace training,innovative design,campus classes,as well as the sale of lace and other activities,achieved the goals of group members to improve the skills of lace production and enhance the value of personal.The goal of lace culture into the campus and lace technology innovation heritage protection and Heritage have been achieved.The project practice shows that the group work has a good applicability for the revival and enhancement of the traditional handicraft skills of older women.But this group work be enslaved to a short time,activity content is relatively simple,lack of sharing activities.The project of older women's income and re employment goals have not yet been achieved.