In Europe, businesses have tended to run apprenticeships through powerful guilds or chambers of commerce.
Bodeau had just listed the three most powerful guilds of Calimport's streets.
They are surrounded by a group of Engineers who are a powerful guild in London.
Many of the larger cities and even some of the more powerful guilds or noblemen minted their own coins.
Wealthy merchants and the increasingly powerful guilds of Brussels built houses around the edge of the square.
Lucilla reminded herself that she was supposed to represent a powerful guild whose members were immune to the common violence of the gutter.
This involves conflict with some of the most powerful guilds of the plane.
Next problem: Representatives of the city's powerful guilds demanded to know what the Empire's attitude would be toward their ancient prerogatives.
The day before, such action against a powerful guild would have been unthinkable.
He went out to the streets, to the many spies, and opened wide the eyes of Pasha Basadoni's powerful guild.