0 a worker who has a skill that makes them able to do a particular job, and who usually works for someone else
Superficially the safe solution is to assume that nil and £1 assessments indicate journeymen and apprentices, while from about £5 most must have been master craftsmen.
In many cases, however, young, unmarried clothiers worked as journeymen for established clothiers for several years before beginning their own clothmaking business - and households.
Both strategies demanded increased labour inputs; hence more unpaid labour - the apprentices - and possibly more paid workers, the journeymen.
The master artisans could exercise their profession independently and were allowed to hire journeymen.
Such women may have been rather running businesses than producing goods in so far as they relied on journeymen.
Two-thirds of the offenders belonged to the bottom of the workforce, working in lowly positions as apprentices, labourers and journeymen.
When two journeymen abandoned his shops, production ceased for eleven days.
He was sure that the journeymen's powers had swollen too.
