workwoman

His Majesty & Her Majesty patriotically impersonated, last week, the roles of a stupid workman and workwoman trying to operate complex factory machinery on the good old British plan for "muddling through."

From Time Magazine Archive

A workwoman, friends, she, no less than a princess; and princess most in being so.

From Saint Ursula Story of Ursula and Dream of Ursula by John Ruskin

In 1878 she heard that one of the workmen was about to marry a workwoman, since dead, who was blind, deformed, and very much out of health.

From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Frances Martin

Let this workwoman, whom the opposition of the convent has crushed, crawl to the gate of the convent—can she find an asylum there?

From Priests, Women, and Families by Jules Michelet

She had felt ashamed to be paid as a workwoman by one once her friend, and in social rank her equal; but now she raised her head, with a noble frankness and spirit.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

The workwomen who are able to execute certain more difficult parts of the watch get higher wages, and can earn from five to ten francs a day.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2011

Clients sitting mesmerized before individual mirrors, Sumner Welles at last forgotten, while cunning workwomen pull roses or bows over their right eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Circulars were sent out to the old patrons and to new houses, and workmen, workwomen, and children straggled in to see what was going on.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Various places are chosen by sundry workmen and workwomen for this practice of waiting to be hired. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

I am inexperienced in the matter of wages, but I feel sure that you either employ inferior workwomen or that you underpay them.

From Patty's Success by Carolyn Wells