hand-worker

But in this day, by machinery, the efficiency of the hand-worker of three generations ago has in turn been increased many times.

Revolution 2010

RAILWAY MAP OF ENGLAND (A PROPHECY) entitled "The May Day of Steam," the writer notes the passing of the old May Day and foreshadows Labour's appropriation of that festival; and a speech is put into the mouth of a working man prophesying the ultimate unmitigated good of invention, though its first operation created great inequality and caused misery to the hand-worker.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

Barbara Cotton, an American woman of thirty-two, a skilled hand-worker in an electrical goods factory, had been self-supporting for more than eighteen years, spending the last nine in her present employment.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

But in this day, by machinery, the efficiency of the hand-worker of three generations ago has in turn been increased many times.

Revolution 1910

The coachman hates the automobile, the hand-worker hates the machine, the orthodox preacher hates the heretic, the politician hates the reformer, the doctor hates the bacteriologist and the chemist, the old woman hates the new -- all these in varying proportions according to the degree in which the iconoclast attacks laziness or livelihood.

The Price She Paid. 1911

But in this day, by machinery, the efficiency of the hand-worker of three generations ago has in turn been increased many times.

Revolution, and Other Essays Jack London 1896

He has always been what he is now, a hand-worker ( "_gemeiner Arbeiter_") in

The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches David Starr Jordan 1891

The coachman hates the automobile, the hand-worker hates the machine, the orthodox preacher hates the heretic, the politician hates the reformer, the doctor hates the bacteriologist and the chemist, the old woman hates the new -- all these in varying proportions according to the degree in which the iconoclast attacks laziness or livelihood.

The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips 1889

You, as the head of a department of the government, receive 1,400£, your neighbour the hand-worker earns merely 600£; how do you know that the latter does not feel that he is wronged thereby? '

Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

If a man is a hand-worker or brain-worker, his fate is inevitable if he regards work as the only end of life.

The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871