Latin manus (hand) plus facere (to make): manu factum, made by hand. English used it for handcraft through the 1600s; the factory system flipped the meaning to machine production without changing the word. Manus also built manual, manuscript, manage (originally to handle horses), maneuver, and emancipate (to take out of the hand).
The manage connection: from maneggiare, to handle and train horses, the word for running corporations descends from horsemanship. Every manager is, at the root, a groom with a spreadsheet.
The family's darkest document: emancipare, to release from the hand, was the Roman legal act of freeing a son or slave from the pater's grip. Liberty, in the root, is not the absence of hands but the formal opening of one.
How many of our industrial words are handmade antiques?