handworker

One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.

Noun

  1. One who carries out handwork, working by hand rather than using a machine.
    • Among the handworkers in the shoe factories, the least skilled are those found in the sole-leather department, if there is one. Their work, described in Chapter III, requires little judgment and less dexterity […] -...

Origin

From hand + worker.

Forms

handworkers

Related

chirurgeon manual laborer