Due to cultural, economic, technological reasons, the construction profession has evolved throughout American history and into contemporary American society. Contemporary American high schoolers can prepare themselves to be a constructionist. Likewise, American high school graduates must complete training and processes to become professional constructionist.
What marketable skills did most citizens need to possess during the American colonial period?
Most Colonial Americans needed to have common marketable skills such as using a hammer. A hammer was a marketable skill because a hammer allowed you to build furniture, and …show more content…
Most of the contractors in the industrial period were working with steel and iron. Because of the railway stimulated the economy in two important ways. First, the advent of cheap and efficient transport lowered the carriage cost of goods. This meant that goods were cheaper in the shops and this increased the demand. The increase in demand led to the expansion of factories which required more energy(Industrial revolution,2011,para.4). Contractors had to know how to bend and shape steel and iron to fit certain forms. But dealing with steel and iron can be very dangerous they had to be causes about getting crushed by the weight but they had to also worry about asepsis poisoning. A contractor in this period was considered a steel and iron …show more content…
There was still limited opportunity for education and children were expected to work. Since the industrial system was completely new, there were no experienced adult laborers. This made child labor the labor of choice for manufacturing in the early phases of the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution witnessed a big jump for the middle class ordinary working people they found an increased opportunity for employment with steel and iron workings. A way of becoming a steel and iron worker was to start from the bottom of the chain, get a job from the factory making it. Eventually start working with someone that works with it daily. Then when you have enough experience apply to get a job working it.
What marketable skills do most American High School graduates need today?
High School graduates are lightly skilled in the fields of Math, Science, English and Social Studies and there alternant classes (Washington state department of labor & industries, 2011,para.5). High schoolers should pursue a high education to improve their skills as college and other programs. On average a High School graduate makes just a little over 30,000 dollars a year. A graduate that went to a higher education averages anywhere from 40,000 to 65,000 depending on how far they pursued the higher