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Occupations & Trades in the Scottish Shale Oil Industry

Paraffin Process Workers

At it's peak, the Scottish shale oil industry employed over 10,000 men and women in a huge variety of trades and occupations at shale mines, oil works, refineries, workshops and offices. This section aims to provide a summary of what these different jobs entailed together with wage or salary information, photographs of people at work, related museum objects etc. where such items exist.

At present, these pages have only been populated with a handful of occupations which will be added to over time

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