Obsolete occupations

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Extinct sports Town criers Milkmen Switchboard operators Lamplighters Typesetters Icemen

Endangered craft lists are a way of keeping a dead trade half alive A list of vanishing trades is really an obituary for a labour market Switchboard operators were replaced by automated menus and then partly rehired as call centre staff 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 Ice harvesting ended when refrigeration reached households and not when machines were invented Some occupations survive only because the law still requires them Occupations rarely die overnight and the long decline is where the damage happens What happens to the skills of a trade after the trade itself is gone? Knocker-uppers died out because alarm clocks became cheap enough to own and not because clocks were invented Scribes lost their trade within a generation of the printing press Why telephone exchange operators disappeared so quickly Nineteenth-century job titles we still use without knowing it Typists became data entry clerks and then the job vanished a second time Retraining programmes for disappearing jobs usually start too late

Interdisciplinarity Positions of authority Engineering occupations Occupations by type Legal professions Sales occupations Government occupations Occupational hazards Defunct organizations Works about occupations