As the world was just coming out of global conflict (world war 2) there were enormous amounts of trades across the world that were short of skilled labour. There was a push to focus young men in particular in to the engineering, and construction trades despite women having undertaken may of those trades to a degree in the war time. In the UK young men were also expected to follow "national service" (required to join the forces) for at least 2 years, this broke the apprenticeship processes in place at the time
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