handworker
English
Etymology
hand + worker
Noun
handworker (plural handworkers)
- One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.
- 1915, The Boot and Shoe Industry in Massachusetts as a Vocation for Women
- Among the handworkers in the shoe factories, the least skilled are those found in the sole-leather department, if there is one. Their work, described in Chapter III, requires little judgment and less dexterity […]
- 1915, The Boot and Shoe Industry in Massachusetts as a Vocation for Women