Treatment of Construction Work

The stigma concerning workers in the trades has predominantly been part of class warfare since the beginning of slavery. Construction workers are often seen as dirty, sweaty, raggedly clothed, alcoholic, angry, and foul mouthed. Some might even stretch the stigma to the point of calling them "uncivilized brutes". Parents discourage their children from entering the trades to avoid the life of the animals of society, and that they can do "better". PArents who are in trades invite their children for a summer of work, but only in an attempt to frighten them to the point of reconsidering the furthering of a higher education towards a secure desk job. Part of the white-collar and every other collar dynamic, this social division, and stigma has reached a new problematic state. There are now more people in the trades that are retiring than there are new laborers entering the trades. While it would be nice to have a cozy desk job in a nice office building, in the city, this option is only possible thanks to things like road paving, constructing buildings, the establishment of an electricity grid, and plumbing systems. It is the construction worker that makes North America eligible to be a "civilization" rather than a primitive society.