Handmade as opposed to what? Is there such a machine that you put leather in one end and bags come out of the other?   If you go to a production line or factory there's a tonne of people working because pretty much everything is done manually.  There's someone dying edges, punching holes, setting hardware, even a lot of the cutting is done by hand by the time they get dies for every new design. Even operating a sewing machine is far from automatic, in fact it's a bit of an art in