Lexicographical Neighbors of Handworkers
Literary usage of Handworkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boot and Shoe Industry in Massachusetts as a Vocation for Women. October by Royal Meeker (1915)
"with the handworkers they really have no more to do with the making of a shoe
... Among the handworkers the proportion paid by time, as learned from the pay ..."
2. The Pedestrian in France and Switzerland by George Barrell (1853)
"... Rhone—The approaching fete—Au revoir to Geneva —By the shore of Lake
Leman—Vessels—The road—A stranger—handworkers —Nyon—Rolle—Thunder-storm. ..."
3. Publications of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men by Institute for the Crippled and Disabled (1918)
"Here again, we may distinguish between the handworkers proper and the industrial
workers. The master guilds among the handworkers have held out every ..."
4. The Extension of Public Education: A Study in the Wider Use of School Buildings by Clarence Arthur Perry (1915)
"... handworkers' ASSOCIATION. Tliis school, open to both sexes, enrolls about 120
women to 510 men. It offers elementary instruction in German, arithmetic, ..."
5. (Alien Immigration): Reports on the Volume and Effects of Recent Immigration by Great Britain Board of Trade (1894)
"The women handworkers, made the trousers throughout with the exception of the
... In another trouser shop the 16 handworkers were generally paid Is. a pair ..."
6. Modern Democracies by James Bryce Bryce (1921)
"... anti-social attitude of the working-class leaders, who, while striving for
economic equality not only between the handworkers and other classes but also ..."
7. The Modern Factory: Safety, Sanitation and Welfare by George Moses Price (1914)
"As most of the labor was done by slaves, handworkers were in the lowest grade,
because, according to the accepted ideas of the time, " trade dulled the ..."
8. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (1915)
"Among the handworkers in the shoe factories, the least skilled are those found
in the ... In the packing department the handworkers earn higher wages, ..."
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