The Impact of World Trade on The Composition of Labour Force in Hand-woven Carpet Industry of Iran: the Case study of Kashan City

Every country tries to reduce the cost of production in order to increase its exports.Globalization of world economy have intensified competition,leading to winning and loosing parties. In this process, the share of most of Iran traditional exportsincluding the hand woven persian carpet in the world marlkets are declining. Using questionaires,our field work study show that competition among carpet woven industries to capture larger share of market have been responsible for the decline in realwages of workers,thereby leading to change in the composition of labour force in this industry.In This study we have found that the middle class familly who were traditionally busy in this profession have moved to other activities and their place have been occupied by Afghan Immigrants and refugees who are willing to accept lower wages,as such they are dominating the labour force in this industry.