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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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