craft

(noun)

Ability; dexterity; skill, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs; adroitness; practical cunning.

Related Terms

  • merchant
  • laborer

Examples of craft in the following topics:

  • Pacific Coast Culture

    • These nations had time and energy to devote to the establishment of fine arts and crafts and to religious and social ceremonies.
    • One of the major cultural elements that began to flourish on the Pacific Northwest Coast was the use of music and other forms of arts and crafts.
  • A New Direction for Unions

    • Traditionally, the AFL organized unions by craft rather than industry, for example, electricians or stationary engineers would form their own skill-oriented unions rather than join a large automobile-making union.
    • Most AFL leaders, including president William Green, were reluctant to shift from the organization's longstanding tradition of craft unionism and started to clash with other leaders within the organization, such as John L.
    • The issue came up at the annual AFL conventions in 1934 and 1935, but the majority voted against a shift to industrial unionism (organizing workers along the lines of industries rather than crafts).
    • The CIO formed unions with the hope of bringing them into the AFL, but in the end, the AFL rejected the idea of a more open and inclusive form of organization that would unionize workers regardless of craft or skills.
  • D-Day and After

    • Strong winds blew the landing craft east of their intended positions, particularly at Utah and Omaha.
    • The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating.
    • A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S.
  • Labor and Domestic Tensions

    • Craft-oriented labor unions, such as carpenters, printers, shoemakers, and cigar makers, grew steadily in the industrial cities after 1870.
  • The Diversity of Workers

    • But by the 1890s, the Federation had begun to organize only skilled workers in craft unions, and became an organization of mostly white men.
    • The craft unions in this industry organized their own department within the AFL in 1908, despite the reservations of Gompers and other leaders about creation of a separate body within the AFL that might function as a federation within a federation.
  • The Wobblies

    • The Wobblies' motto was " an injury to one is an injury to all ", which improved upon the 19th century Knights of Labor 's creed, "an injury to one is the concern of all. " In particular, the IWW was organized because of the belief among many unionists, socialists, anarchists and radicals that the AFL not only had failed to effectively organize the U.S. working class, as only about 5% of all workers belonged to unions in 1905, but also that it was organizing according to narrow craft principles which divided groups of workers.
    • The Wobblies differed from other union movements of the time by its promotion of industrial unionism , as opposed to the craft unionism of the American Federation of Labor .
  • The Knights of Labor and the "Conditions Essential to Liberty"

    • Disputes between the skilled trade unionists, also known as craft unionists , and the industrial unionists weakened the organization.
    • They lost many craft unionists that year to the rival Railroad brotherhoods and the new American Federation of Labor , which had more conservative reputations.
  • Culture in the Thirties

    • FAP provided funding for artists and artisans to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, theater design, and arts and crafts.
    • It established more than 100 community art centers throughout the country, researched and documented American design, commissioned a significant body of public art without restriction to content or subject matter, and sustained some 10,000 artists and craft workers during the Great Depression.
    • In architecture and design, the 1930s was the height of the Art Deco - an eclectic style inspired by industrialization that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials.
  • Progressives and the Working Class

    • Unlike the AFL, which was a group composed of separate unions for each different trade (craft unionism), the IWW supported the concept of industrial unionism, in which all workers in a given industry are organized in a single union regardless of each worker's particular trade.
  • Colonial Cities

    • Wives and husbands often worked as a team and taught their children their crafts to pass it on through the family.
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