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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

Within the consecrated precincts, we may see traces of the Mud�jar handicraftsmen amid early Gothic and Renaissance architectural details.

From The Story of Seville by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

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 Harper, Various (magazine)

The emigrants are required to be chosen from the class of mechanics and handicraftsmen, agricultural labourers, or domestic servants, and must be going out with the intention to work for wages.

From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Ward, Harriet