handicraftsman

The movement inaugurated by Luther gave to the peasant groaning under the weight of baronial oppression, and the small handicraftsman suffering under his Ehrbarkeit, a rallying-point and a rallying cry.

From German Culture Past and Present by Ernest Belfort Bax

We could not help wishing that some rural grandee, who avows that he hates all manufacturers, could see this fair specimen of an English handicraftsman.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

Now that the designer and the handicraftsman are separate persons, the work of the former is unreal, and of the latter merely mechanical.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

But to men who work with their hands there must always be something specially inspiring in the life and example of one who was a handicraftsman and so much beside.

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore

Other striking resemblances are found between the names for handicraftsman and master-builder in widely distant countries.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall

The specter of proletarian dependency haunted the lives of the country’s self-reliant handicraftsmen who watched apprehensively as shops employing wage labor began popping up across the country. 

From Salon ● May 25, 2012

The Industrial Revolution, which replaced the tools of the independent workmen with machines owned by lenders of capital, had transformed handicraftsmen who were their own bosses into hired hands subject to the orders of managers.

From Time Magazine Archive

First of all went the tabor, then those pashas who provided food for the troops, then whole legions of handicraftsmen, who had to pitch tents, then herds of pack animals, then herds destined for slaughter.

From Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

There were about 16,000 to 20,000 persons employed at the diggings, comprising all classes, from the polite professions to handicraftsmen, runaway policemen, and seamen from the shipping.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper

So soon as the towns had acquired power, and contained a well-organized body of the trades, hostility arose against new immigrants, mostly propertyless peasants, who wanted to settle as handicraftsmen.

From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon