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“Craft has always played a critical role in defining communities and cultures as well as for economic opportunity,” said Rebecca van Bergen, the founder of Nest, a nonprofit focused on building a global hand-worker economy.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2021

The first effect of mechanical production in the spinning and weaving industries was to displace the hand-worker.

From Problems of Poverty by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)

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

From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James

It is little comfort to the hand-worker, driven out to seek unskilled labour by the competition of new machinery, that the world will be a gainer in the long run.

From Problems of Poverty by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)

In a recent number of the Edinburgh Review Sir Lynden Macassey speaks of the widespread, almost universal, fallacies to which the hand-worker has fallen a victim.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph