Kōrero: Rhythms of daily life

Working hard for the money: unpaid work (2 o 2)

Working hard for the money: unpaid work

It is 2.35 p.m. and Masiega So’iso’i is checking the washing she hung out on her return from work in the morning. Next she will collect her younger children from school, make dinner and spend time with her family, then sleep for four or five hours before rising at 2 a.m. to go to work.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1989/2831
Photograph by Jon Hargest

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Megan Cook, 'Rhythms of daily life - Working-age adults', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/40511/working-hard-for-the-money-unpaid-work (accessed 19 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 5 Sep 2013