8 sentences with “artisans”

Far more common, however, were labourers or artisans of all kinds, who made things and then sold them on behalf of their masters.

Cathedral schools in the cities offered the same, and increasingly trained not only local elites, but even the children of artisans and merchants.

Supporters of nationalism tended to be members of the middle classes, including everyone from artisans to the new professional class associated with commerce and industry in the 19th century.

Prior to this, the working classes of the pre-modern era generally had direct access to their livelihood: a small plot of land, access to common land, the tools of their trade in the case of artisans.

Manchester was close to important coal deposits, had a large textile industry, was linked to the sea by a canal from 1761, and had an army of artisans and labourers due to its historical role as a wool-producing location.

The most vulnerable group were the so-called "petty bourgeoisie", shop owners and old-style artisans, whose economic life was precarious and who lived in constant fear of losing everything and being forced to join the working class.

From the time of the Renaissance, the elites increasingly acquired basic skills, but in the eighteenth century even artisans and small merchants in the cities of central and western Europe sent their children (especially boys) to schools for at least a few years.

The coalitions of artisans, students and educated liberals who had led the uprisings were good at arguing among themselves over the finer points of national identity, but not at establishing meaningful links with the bulk of the population who did not live in or around the capitals.