Construction work in the 60's and 70's

 During, my parent era in the 70's construction work starts to become a skilled trade and the industry starts demanding more trained workers. The type of work is dynamic, and changing at a
rapid pace over the last thirty years. "Although not the largest industrial sector,
construction is a key industry that is by far the most labour-intensive, but which provides the main economic pillar for future survival." (Cremers, 2004).

During this time construction workers maybe concerned with fair hiring practices. Seattle’s politics of fair employment changed when African American construction workers and activists began to protest racially exclusionary hiring practices in Seattle’s construction unions in the fall of 1969.These are the types of article topics that you would see in the newspapers.The things that I suspect to be the same would be the work quality among the laborers. I also think that all the tool and machines that they would have used would be the same as today. 

 In the 1960's when my grandparents were construction workers the economic  and political atmosphere was not at rest there were many things that in addition to a day at work that the laborers had to deal with. The Civil Rights campaigns of the 1960s, one of the most outstanding forces in twentieth-century U.S. history was empowering workers to stand up for there rights.  The antiwar movement actually consisted of a number of independent interests, causing another distraction for the workers at this time.

Some of the things that you may see in the news at this time are topic in relation to Hispanic, Black, Indian, and other migrant workers. An article that I found, Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns, fought to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s. I suspect that this would be the same because today's era still treats the different migrant workers with not a lot of respect. A few of them do have respect like my grandparents company.

Most structures constructed between 1920 and 1980 run a substantial risk of harboring asbestos products in the floors, walls, roof, insulation, pipes, boilers, fireproofing materials and other areas.