Journeymen

Mike Gordon, Canadian training director for the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry, is eager to dispel mixed messaging about the skilled trades.

The puzzling part of the trade was that on the open market, the two-time All-Star, and three-time rebounding champion, was worth no more than a single second-round pick and two journeymen veterans on contracts that made the finances of the deal work.

Harry Gurney is becoming one of the ultimate Twenty20 journeymen.

Instead, he signed controversial and limited journeymen JaVale McGee, Michael Beasley and Lance Stephenson.

However, the journeymen organizations, which were at the time illegal, may have been influential.

Journeymen elect their own representative bodies, with their president having the traditional title of Altgesell (Senior Journeyman).

Journeymen were able to work for other masters, unlike apprentices, and generally paid by the day and were thus day labourers.

Scholars from the history of ideas have noticed that consultants play a part similar to that of the journeymen of the guild systems: they often travel a lot, work at many companies and spread new practices and knowledge between companies and corporations.

Wakefield's idea was for the Government to survey and sell the land at a rate that would maintain land values high enough to be unaffordable for labourers and journeymen.