handworker
nounEtymology From hand + worker.
1
One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.
- 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:
- Related terms
- chirurgeon, manual laborer