Characteristics of the Handicraft Workshop Form

The basic unit of handicraft production in feudal cities. Handicraft workshop owners have private means of production, decentralized business, with their own manual labor as the main source of livelihood, generally do not employ workers, only do auxiliary work of helpers and apprentices. Helpers and apprentices have no wages, only a meager remuneration to maintain their livelihood, therefore, there is no capitalist employment relationship between the workshop owner and the helpers and apprentices. The basic unit of handicraft production in feudal cities. Handicraft workshop owners have private means of production, decentralized business, to their own manual labor as the main source of livelihood, generally do not employ workers, only to do auxiliary work of helpers and apprentices. The helpers and apprentices are not paid wages, but only a meager remuneration to maintain their livelihood. Therefore, there is no capitalist employment relationship between the workshop owner and the helpers and apprentices. Handicraft workshop can be divided into two stages: decentralized handicraft workshop, i.e. simple collaboration, and centralized handicraft workshop, i.e. workshop handicraft. Simple collaboration does not change the manual labor tools and methods of operation, only in the same capitalist under the command of collaborative labor; workshop handicrafts is based on manual technology and the division of labor of hired workers based on the capitalist mass production, it is handicraft production to the transition of the capitalist machine industry in the preparatory stage. Handicraft workshop and handmade workshop compared, not only in the scale of production, the technical division of labor on the progress, the key is the handmade workshop has been the capitalist nature of the form of production organization, which is the essence of the difference with the handmade workshop.