Workman

Noun

 * 1) A man who labours for wages
 * 2) An artisan or craftsman

Thesaurus
blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler, navvy, office temporary, operative, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman

Etymology
From werkman:, from  weorcmann:, equivalent to. Compare werkman:,  Werkmann:,  verkamaður:.

Derived terms

 * a bad workman always blames his tools