But in this day, by machinery, the efficiency of the hand-worker of three generations ago has in turn been increased many times. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ 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. ❋ Edith Wyatt (1915)
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. ❋ Unknown (1911)
He has always been what he is now, a hand-worker ( "_gemeiner Arbeiter_") in ❋ David Starr Jordan (1891)
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? ' ❋ 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. ❋ James Runciman (1871)
And I apprehend that what is true for the ordinary hand-worker is true for the foreman. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)
Martha was just the wife for the honest, sensible hand-worker; and as it frequently happens with such characters, his affairs prospered from the date of his marriage. ❋ Various (1841)
Our honest hand-worker lived among the people, and therefore possessed the best means to describe them in graphic characters. ' ❋ Various (1840)
The future these persons seem to see, more or less vaguely, is of a social condition, in which, the males of the race remaining precisely as they are today, the corresponding females shall have advanced to undreamed of heights of culture and intelligence; a condition in which the hand-worker, and the ordinary official, and small farmer, shall be confronted with the female astronomer or Greek professor of astonishing learning and gifts as his only possible complementary sex companion; and the vision naturally awakens in these good folk certain misgivings as to sympathy between and suitability for each other, of these two widely dissimilar parts of humanity. ❋ Unknown (2003)
