A person who works primarily with their hands to create or repair things; an artisan or manual laborer.
From hand + worker; refers to any person whose primary labor involves manual hand-based skills rather than mental work or machine operation.
The devaluing of handworkers relative to 'knowledge workers' is a recent invention—for most of human history, handworkers were the economy, and those who couldn't work with their hands were considered deficient.
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