Here is a selection of fascinating photos chosen from the Evening News archive, showing people at work in factories, shops, foundry, fields, offices and elsewhere in the early 1980s.
Scroll through the pictures and get a feel for what working life in and around the Capital was like four decades ago.
1. High tech 1980s style
A young woman working at the Viewdata offices in Alva Street Edinburgh, September 1980. Prestel, a British Telecoms online service and precursor of teletext and the internet, used Viewdata to transmit its content. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
2. .Chocoloate checkers
Women make sure the chocolates are in their boxes at the Rowntree Mackintosh factory in Edinburgh, December 1981 | TSPL Photo: Crauford Tait
3. Tailor and outfitter
Tailor Stanley Banks sewing a jacket by hand in the back room of Gieves and Hawkes men's outfitters in George Street Edinburgh, November 1981. | TSPL Photo: Ian Brand
4. Steam train
A man and woman, in engineer's hat, working on one of the steam trains at Edinburgh's Waverley station in May 1981. | TSPL Photo: Alan Macdonald