Highly skilled workers, who made up about 15% of the working classes. Often bosses and factory foremen, also members of highly skilled trades that hadn't been mechanized. Committed to the family, economic improvement, good morals, etc.
Definition of appraisal for English Language Learners. : 1  the act of judging the value, condition, or importance of something : the act of appraising something. : 2  something that states an opinion about the value, condition, or importance of something.
An appraisal focuses on a specific property and ideally pegs its value to similar houses that ideally have sold within the past six months, and which are within a mile of the subject property. Needless to say, those parameters aren't always workable.