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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

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)

How can the wage-earners and handicraftsmen be induced to visit the library and use its books for their practical advantage?

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

It seeks to produce cultured handicraftsmen as well as cultured artists and professional men.

From Farm Boys and Girls by McKeever, William Arch