The Ancient Crafts were Learned through Apprenticeship

The MESTIERI DI UNA VOLTA was learned through the apprenticeship. The apprenticeship is the act of learning about a trade or a craft under supervision of a skilled person. This was the method that

LUGO, Italy (prHWY.com) March 21, 2013 - The MESTIERI DI UNA VOLTA was learned through the apprenticeship. The apprenticeship is the act of learning about a trade or a craft under supervision of a skilled person. This was the method that young people were using to know about a certain trade, profession, art or a craft. The apprenticeship was helping people in the following ways. The young people were acquiring the skills that will help them psychologically and financially. The master and the employer were receiving a helping hand during the apprenticeship. The apprenticeship helped the community to access quality good and skilled labor.
The modern apprenticeship requires the people to learn about a certain trade by signing a contract with the employer. The guardian and the parents can also sign on behalf of the learner. The apprenticeship is practiced within 400 occupations in around 90 trades. The learner can join when he is around 16 years old and the apprenticeship offer both the classroom and on the job training. The contract signed should state working conditions, wages and hours of the apprenticeship.
Besides the apprenticeship, the ANTICHI MESTIERI, was passed from one to another in a family tradition. The trades taught in the apprenticeship were recognized in the entire world such as Weaver, Boatwright, Taylor, Shoemaker, Carpenter, FABBRO, or Goldsmith.
With the development of the industry, the apprenticeship declined but in the past few years the apprenticeship had been developed again in both the developing and industrial countries. The programs are sponsored by industrial employers, trade unions and governments. Apprenticeship begun to take place from the time that the men begun to engage themselves in the co-operative production. The apprenticeship is always regulated and protected by the law. Sometime the artisans had to teach the handicrafts to the people they adopted to ensure the continuation of the trade. The arts that had high premiums included painters and sculptors.
In the domestic apprenticeship like SARTO, or CALZOLAIO, the learner joined at the age of 12. The contract allowed the learner to offer care and services to the master for a certain number of years in exchange, he had to received instruction, clothing, lodging and food. Many artisans such as sculptors, painters and musicians were being trained in this way.

With the industrial development, the apprenticeship system changed and the apprentice begun to receive the wages instead of clothing, lodging and boarding. The apprentice required to work on the building from the foundation to the roof ridge. He has to lay floors, carving molding, framing walls and nailed weatherboard among others. The apprentice may be required to produce the material first before he is allowed to work on any building. The FALEGNAME also can work as a joiner where he will be required to join different pieces together including window and door frames. Some arts are now being taught in the schools including the volunteers' school and formal schools. The artisans work has become easier because of using the latest techniques and tools that use the latest technology.

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