To add an example for clarity, think of the field of typography — until the Digital Age, typography was a specialized occupation.
As Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) explained, "Congress intended the H-1B program to allow an employer to hire a skilled foreign worker in a specialized occupation when the employer could not find an American worker with needed skills and abilities," and for many years the debate has focused on employers' claims of a STEM skills shortage.
"No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life," he wrote, "it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group".
Talk story about shad-boning, the specialized occupation of removing the bones from a shad.
The New Yorker, April 19 , 1941P. 9 Talk story about shad-boning, the specialized occupation of removing the bones from a shad.
By Mary Graham Bonner, Jervis Anderson, Russell Maloney, and Harold Ross The New Yorker, April 19 , 1941P. 9 Talk story about shad-boning, the specialized occupation of removing the bones from a shad.
By contrast, the commercial apprentices in Germany learn one specialized occupation out of 50 different commercial occupations.
At both sites the teams found remains of small, calorie-rich fish, indicating an early net fishery--a very specialized maritime occupation, notes Keefer.
The two were harshly critical of the H1-B visa, a temporary visa for workers in certain specialized occupations, which Mr. Murdoch said limits the stateside options for some foreign born graduates of masters and Ph. D. programs in valuable specialties like science and engineering.
What followed was a revolutionary change in the nature of work: as towns were established, new specialized occupations developed in commerce, law, medicine, and defense.
Widespread use of traditional healing, including such specialized occupations as bonesetting, midwifery, and minor surgery (including circumcision), continues to be important.
