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Pages tagged "Unpaid Work"


Six young mothers die

Posted on Shadow Blog by Susan Hartley · September 03, 2017 9:09 PM

Essential Island workers dying at their workplace, doing unpaid job of caring for children

mother_and_baby.jpgSince January of this year, six young Island women have died in their workplace.

To my knowledge, there has been no investigation by any government agency leading to an identification of the circumstances that led to their deaths, an implementation of - or increase in - safety measures to make the job safer or support for the family members left without a mother, wife, sister, or daughter. 

The Island women who died on the job were doing the unpaid and essential work of caring for children; their workplace was the home. They suffered with postnatal (postpartum) depression, which eventually led to their deaths. 

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