Capitalism and Conflict in the Medieval Cloth Trade
...k; he was more of a teacher and a master arts man. If he had a wife she would help run the shop but she wasn’t able to do all that much because she was a woman. The sons and daughters would sometimes work a long side the journeymen. The son was sometimes known as a journeyman but the daughters weren’t. The masters son might do the work of a apprentice, making some true apprentices angry at the fact that they did not get to do there jobs. A lot of the men thought that a woman had no place inside the guilds. They still had to deal with the guilds owners’ wives and daughters helping with the guild. Even though most of the men wanted nothing to do with the woman of the guild, they would still support them and their children, if their husbands died. A woman was aloud to run the guild if her husband died. Now that sounds nice and dandy but In most cases the men of the guild would take advantage of them and also force them to except there changes for the guild and rules. Even thought that was very unfair the woman was still grateful to be part of the guild. If she was a woman who wasn’t a widow or wife of a guilds man then she would have to deal will a lot more problems than that. These woman who tried to work and weren’t widows or wife’s of guilds men where taken advantage off constantly they often would get robed by other guilds and if caught selling anything would have to pay a fine. So the guilds where generally helpful to th...