workwoman

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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

He was simply told to go and work in the company's colliery, where there was better pay; and the workman or workwoman imagined this was an advance, not a degradation.

From Black Diamonds by Jókai, Mór

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 Michelet, Jules

The machine to sew hurries everything, and you find the workwoman sans ambition and busy only to hurry and be one with the machine.

From Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Campbell, Helen

If late five minutes the workwoman is fined twopence, and if not there by nine is "drilled," that is, sent away, or kept waiting near until two, when she goes on for half a day.

From Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Campbell, Helen