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Yes, they had guilds. Many times families were bakers as the family profession. This also happened with tanners, smiths, and other jobs. Some of the surnames we have today come from this time when families were "bakers". The fathers taught the sons and so the family business was carried on until something happened within the family to change the course of events.

2nd answer: Bakers were considered a skilled craftsman, much the same as a tailor or metal smith. Bakers were trained by apprenticeship, and after their apprenticeship they became journeymen and members of the guild. In theory any journeyman could go on to be the master of a shop, but the difficulty in raising the starting capital meant most bakers (as with most other crafts) remained journeymen for their career, and would work for a master who owned a shop.

There would have been additional employees in these shops who did unskilled or semiskilled jobs (hauling wood for the fire, mixing, kneading, etc). These individuals were not considered "bakers" and were not eligible to join the guild. They worked under the supervision of the master of the shop, or a journeyman baker if the master had assistants.

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Bakers baked bread, cakes, and pastries. They used ovens for this, but worked in kitchens quite unlike what one might imagine because there were no fireplaces and chimneys. The ovens had a fire chamber and a cooking chamber, and looked rather like Pizza ovens. The kitchens were places that could be very open to the weather, because they could get very hot, except in cold weather, when they were closed in.

The most important output of bakers was bread. Everyone ate bread. In England, they sold the bread for a farthing (quarter penny) per loaf, but the size of the loaf was dependent on the price of wheat and was regulated by law.

Really good bakers were paid pretty well for pastries and cakes.

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Most Medieval workers spare time was pretty limited to eating, sleeping, religious duties and family activities.

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