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Couple that with lack of in-person communities. They are ephemeral at best now.

The repetitiveness of modern labor has moved full body physical labour to single point of failure on your body tasks with the likelier end result being you will end up crippled in some way (and having to just work with it) or have other overuse injuries which then leads to constant chronic pain.

It may not be physically as hard but I think the work is more precarious, and the cost of living is much higher for basics like housing, so the stress may be higher.

> but I think the work is more precarious

It was a lot easier to fire people in those days.

> the cost of living is much higher for basics like housing

Around Seattle there are still a number of older homes. They are tiny and cheaply built compared to modern homes.

50 years ago mean 1975, not 1935. It was a lot harder to fire people then.