Kerala’s labour story has always been narrated through binaries. Organised versus unorganised. Skilled versus unskilled. Local versus migrant. What rarely enters the policy imagination is the quiet but powerful infrastructure of trust that already exists inside communities. Christian artisan belts, Hindu manufacturing clusters, and Muslim trading and logistics networks have, over decades, built internal systems of skill transfer, discipline, and informal certification. These systems are not ideological. They are practical. They exist because families needed income stability, intergenerational continuity, and reputation-based survival. Vision Kerala 2047 must recognise that the future of labour lies not in erasing these structures, but in synthesising them into a common, modern framework.   The idea of Interfaith Skilled Labour Guilds begins with a simple observation. Kerala does not suffer from a lack of labour skills. It suffers from fragmented recognition. A carpenter trained through a church-linked vocational stream, a metal worker shaped by temple-adjacent workshops, ...