"An essential peculiarity differentiated the older lodges (they kept losing prestige in Germany from the i6th century on) from the guilds of the allied building trades (bricklayers, carpenters, etc.) as well as of all other manual trades. Whereas the constitutions of the other craft-organizations were dependent upon revocable charters granted the guilds by the civil and provincial authorities, the lodges followed a "free art" and were subject to neither the guild-compulsion nor the immediate supervision of magistrates."
http://www.archive.org/stream/psycheanderosan00stekgoog/psyc...
"Industrial capital could not arise without free workers, workers who stood in no relation of servitude, or attachment, or guild compulsion. It required the freedom of production in place of the fetters of feudalism, it had to emancipate itself from the tutelage of the feudal lords."
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1903/economic/ch19.h...

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Note added at   52 min (2012-11-25 20:37:38 GMT)
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