Obsolete occupations

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Extinct sports Town criers Milkmen Switchboard operators Typesetters Icemen Lamplighters

Endangered craft lists are a way of keeping a dead trade half alive Switchboard operators were replaced by automated menus and then partly rehired as call centre staff A list of vanishing trades is really an obituary for a labour market Ice harvesting ended when refrigeration reached households and not when machines were invented Oral history collections are the only record of jobs that left no documents The last gas lamplighters still work in a few cities as a ceremonial job What happens to the skills of a trade after the trade itself is gone? Occupations rarely die overnight and the long decline is where the damage happens Scribes lost their trade within a generation of the printing press Some occupations survive only because the law still requires them Knocker-uppers died out because alarm clocks became cheap enough to own and not because clocks were invented Why telephone exchange operators disappeared so quickly Occupational surnames survive long after the trade they named has gone Nineteenth-century job titles we still use without knowing it Typists became data entry clerks and then the job vanished a second time

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