Guild membership held very different meanings for tailors and seamstresses.

行会会员对裁缝师和女裁缝师的意义截然不同。

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To protect its assets and enforce guild membership, the Commerce guild USES combat automata such as its dwarf spider droid and its giant homing spider droid.

为了保护资产和强迫他人入会，商业行会使用矮蜘蛛机器人和巨型寻的蜘蛛机器人等战斗机器人。

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Unless, of course, guild membership does not protect wages in the same way that unions do.

FORBES: Declining Union Membership Does Not Mean Declining Wages

So, if we equate union membership with this protection through guild membership then we could say that the portion of the workforce protected has gone from 35% or so then to 40 odd percent now.

FORBES: Declining Union Membership Does Not Mean Declining Wages