glassworkers

Furnace-tending craftspeople

Glassworkers are people who shape, cut, blow, or otherwise work with glass as their trade.

The term covers artisans who create decorative pieces, factory workers who manufacture windows or bottles, and craftspeople who make stained glass: The glassworkers' union negotiated for better ventilation in the factory.

craft

blowers

Air-moving devices or people

glory hole · gather · molten · annealing · kiln · bench · blowpipe · jacks · shears · paddles

industrial

factory

Industrial production facility

shifts · unions · manufacturing · assembly line · quality control · inspectors · cutters · grinders · polishers · glaziers

artistic

sculptors

Artists who shape forms

goblets · chandeliers · installations · gallery · exhibitions · commissions · one-of-a-kind · signatures · collectors · apprentices

historical

guilds

Craftsmen's mutual aid societies

medieval · apprenticeship · trade secrets · glasshouses · leaded · came · glazing · ecclesiastical · Renaissance · heritage

Categories
Opposites
material worked

glassworkersmetalworkers

Artisans shaping heated alloys

woodworkers · potters · blacksmiths · ironworkers · carpenters

craft vs. non-craft labor

glassworkersoffice workers

Indoor professional employees

knowledge workers · bureaucrats · administrators · manual laborers · day laborers

Family

glassworker

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