trade guild
Craftsmen's professional union
A trade guild is an association of craftspeople or merchants organized to protect their common interests.
Historically, guilds controlled who could practice a trade, set quality standards, and regulated prices.
Medieval guilds of blacksmiths, weavers, and goldsmiths wielded significant economic power in their cities.
Modern professional associations sometimes function as informal trade guilds, restricting entry and maintaining standards: The bar association operates like a trade guild for lawyers.
- craftsmenSkilled manual trade workers
- master craftsmanExpert in skilled trade
- merchantOne who sells wares
- merchant classTraders as social group
- artisanSkilled manual tradesperson
skilled labor · apprentice · master · journeyman · livery · charter · monopoly · workshop · brotherhood · fraternity · guildhouse · dues · wares · smiths · weavers · tanners · masons · medieval
- craft guildscraft unions
- guildsguildhalls, guildmaster, livery companies, apprentice, master
- professional organizationsprofessional association, unions, professional society, syndicates, chambers of commerce
- social groupsdemographic groups, community, clan, ethnic groups, age groups
- Islamic commerceIslamic finance, Islamic banking, dinar, dirham, business transactions
trade guildlabor union
Collective bargaining group
industrial union · at-will employment · gig economy · gig worker · precariat
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