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.
17. Fishwife
With her basket on her back, traditionally-dressed fishwife Nan Oliver takes her seafood and shellfish round the Trinity area of Edinburgh in May 1982. Nan offers some local children cockles in a plastic cup. | TSPL Photo: Bill Newton
18. Pet shop man
Sandy Banks in his pet shop in Edinburgh's Fleshmarket Close. The shop i had been there since the early 1900s but closed in 1982. | TSPL Photo: George Smith
19. Double glazers
Workers at the Everest double glazing facory in Livingston making replacement windows in January 1983. | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell
20. Microchip bonding
Microchips being bonded at the NEC Semiconductors electronics factory at Livingston in July 1983. | TSPL Photo: Hamish Campbell