regularly for large craftworking enterprises. Where large-scale production took place (as, for example, in some pottery manufacture) it tended to depend on slave labour. Most free-born craftworkers worked in family units. If the amount of work exceeded what a group of close relatives could handle, the family tended to acquire one or more slaves. The household typically handled every process, from preparation of materials to final sale.13 This is particularly clear at Pompeii in the case of bakeries