Yet, in spite of the harsh sanctions facing them, tradespeople and merchants continued to deal on the black market.
These daughters of shop-keepers and tradespeople, educated above their station at schools designed to produce governesses, are a spectre haunting governess literature.
Twenty-six parents worked as professionals, and 11 were employed in blue-collar occupations or as skilled tradespeople.
The tradespeople and merchants were split almost evenly between the food and drink industries and other industries; eighty-six were involved in food and drink and eighty-three were not.
Is that a patriotism which stands out distinct from the general patriotism of the tradespeople throughout the country?
It could all happen again because we still have a fine tradition of highly skilled tradespeople.
They are certainly very useful to a very large number of tradespeople who secure them on the payment of a certain sum of money.
They decided to have their own newspaper, financed by their own citizens and controlled by their own tradespeople, and that newspaper dominates today.
