artisanate

From artisan +‎ -ate (forming nouns denoting rank, class). Compare French artisanat.

artisanate (plural artisanates)

1. The class of artisans or skilled manual workers, collectively.
   • 1969 November 10, John Fowles, chapter 3, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1st US edition, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company […], →OCLC, page 10:

     The ‘sixties had been indisputably prosperous; an affluence had come to the artisanate and even to the laboring classes that made the possibility of revolution recede, at least in Great Britain, almost out of mind.