craftworkers

As the head of the actors union, he was forced to take sides in a labor strike by one of a new craftworkers union that leaned toward communism.

TEAR DOWN THIS WALL ROMESH RATNESAR 2009

When Reagan led the actors across the picket lines, the craftworkers responded with violence.

TEAR DOWN THIS WALL ROMESH RATNESAR 2009

By using new technology and reducing the labor requirements of production, early industrialists undermined the independence of craftworkers and opened the way for the widespread use of common waged labor.

H. North America, 1789-1914 2001

Although some master craftworkers benefited from such changes by becoming employers, by 1840 an estimated 50 percent of the nation's free workers labored for wages and found it difficult to acquire property, maintain skills, and move up in the socioeconomic system.

H. North America, 1789-1914 2001

Thus, those who felt the most severe hardships from industrialization, at least psychologically, were the artisans, craftworkers, and rural laborers who saw the value of their work decline.

4. Western and Central Europe, 1815-1848 2001

The German working class shifted from the craftworkers who had participated in the revolutions of 1848 to the growing number of industrial workers who gradually organized through the efforts of the trade organizations of the socialists, Catholics, and even the industrialists themselves.

1854 2001

Industrial developments also threatened the livelihoods of the many craftworkers who became instrumental in the early phases of the revolutions.

5. Revolutions in Europe, 1848-1852 2001

The first series of inventions resulted mainly from the tinkerings of craftworkers and inventors and required very little capital.

4. Western and Central Europe, 1815-1848 2001

Shares in Aer Lingus were up 3. 3% to 63 cent ahead of the results of a ballot by craftworkers on the company's €97m cost cutting plan.

RTÉ News 2010

Instead it has given over a chunk of some of the most expensive retail space in the world to a picture gallery of "Levi's craftworkers", a group of musicians and artists it has picked to be the faces of its new brand campaign.

economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk Zoe Wood 2010