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2. Ironworker - Wikipedia

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   Practically overnight, carpenters who built wooden bridges became ironworkers by the 1880s. It was seen as a new, exciting job for pioneers in America, despite its dangers. A worker could risk his life on high structures for about two dollars per day. [4] The production of cast iron parts in larger and larger sizes brought about the use of cranes.

3. List of construction trades - Wikipedia

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   Mason, a tradesperson skilled variously in brick and blocklaying, concrete finishing (the placement, finishing, protecting and repairing of concrete in construction projects). [7] Also stonemason, marble setter and polisher, tile setter and polisher, terrazzo worker and finisher. Hod carrier is a subsidiary trade (also see Laborer).

4. List of metalworking occupations - Wikipedia

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   Sometimes laborers' positions may be called by more specific names, such as oiler. Technology in general, and automation in particular, tends to exert pressure against laborer-type job creation, with the lowest-skilled positions being most at risk. For example, so-called labor gangs, groups of men assigned to shoveling or other manual tasks ...

5. Laborer - Wikipedia

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   A laborer (or labourer) is a person who works in manual labor typed within the construction industry. There is a generic factory laborer which is defined separately as a factory worker. Laborers are in a working class of wage-earners in which their only possession of significant material value is their labor. Industries employing laborers ...

6. Construction worker - Wikipedia

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   Laborers comprise a large grouping in most national construction industries. In the United States, for example, in May 2023, construction sector businesses employed just over 7.9 million people, of whom 859,000 were laborers, while 3.7 million were construction trades workers (including 603,000 carpenters , 559,000 electricians , 385,000 ...

7. Steel fixer - Wikipedia

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   A steel fixer with column reinforcement steel Fixing reinforcement for foundations and walls of sewage pump station in Sacramento, California. A steel fixer (UK, ironworker or "rod buster" in the United States) is a tradesman who positions and secures steel reinforcing bars, also known as rebar, and steel mesh used in reinforced concrete on construction projects.