What were the main functions of a guild? a. to protect the interests of people working in an industry and maintain standards within the industry b. to demand good wages and benefits for unskilled workers in factories c. to find cures for the black death and to prevent it from spreading to the italian city-states d. to negotiate trade agreements with byzantine and muslim representatives

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.

d: social contract theory