0 someone who works in a trade that needs skill at using your hands, usually in the building industry --
1 a man who works in the building industry in a job that involves physical work and a practical skill: --
2 a man who buys and sells goods, especially someone who owns a store: --
Far more officers were professionals or were involved in shopkeeping, and fewer were unskilled working men, but tradesmen were spread equally among the ranks.
A key role was ascribed to an improvement in apprentissage and the professional training of independent tradesmen and retailers.
What comes across clearly in these letters is that tradesmen were easily exchanged and that threats to discontinue service were followed through.
They were smaller farmers and tradesmen without occupational specialization, and of relatively more middling wealth and status.
Within the urban cohort, the largest single group were tradesmen, who were three times more prevalent than among the rural migrants.
Rural volunteers became even less prominent after 1919, while tradesmen became more so.
The groups tried to extort public tenders in favour of the unemployed tradesmen.
By the 1820s and 1830s many tradesmen were facing the competitive and organisational pressures of an emergent industrial capitalism.
