Artisans, Ottoman and post-Ottoman - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Quataert, Donald
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Leiden
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Brill
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Artisans in Ottoman and post-Ottoman times were workers commercially engaged in the hand manufacture of goods; they worked in homes, workshops, and, sometimes, large factories. Large-scale hand manufacturing fluctuated over time and place, but it was a regular feature of the Ottoman artisanal landscape and has persisted into the contemporary era, despite ongoing mechanisation of production in nearly every industrial sector. The term "artisan" implies both a certain level of skill and an end product that is chiefly handmade. Beginning in the nineteenth century, several trends affected artisans.