Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship

Ken FOLLET, World without end, London : Macmillan, 2008, pag. 244:" 'An apprentice is always given his tools at the end of his...' 
'You haven't finished your apprenticeship,so you don't get your tools'  'I've done six and a half years!' 'You're supposed to do seven' "
Ken FOLLET, World without end, London : Macmillan, 2008,pag. 297:" He's done six and half years of his apprenticeship, with no wages but his food and a bed on the kitchen floor.."

Apprentice: a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.  See Oxford dictionaries.

 

Apprenticeship was the way used to pass the skills of a particulary job to a new generation. The system of apprenticeship was first developed during Middle ages and, at the beginning, it was controlled by crafts guilds and  local governments. An artinsan used to have some apprentices to work with. A master craftsmen had the right to employ a young boy, which can learn the craft and receive only food and shelter for the lenght of his apprenticeship.

For more informations check  http://www.yorkguildofbuilding.org/html/body_medieval.html

 

Last edited 05/05/2013