Didn't traditional skills begin to disappear with the decline of guilds?: - The <http://the/> feudal system of industry, in which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets. The manufacturing system took its place. The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class..."
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm
