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.
The purpose of the appraisal is always to estimate a specific type of value. This is generally market value, but it could be some other type of value such as book value, insurable value, lending value, assessment value, and so on. The function of the appraisal refers to the use that will be made of the value estimate.