Your life, your home, the food in your fridge, this very phone held in your hand, only functions because of a miraculous infrastructure beneath it. The phone towers, the pipes and pylons, the buildings going up all around us; the farms, fields, mines, and trucks, they all quietly keep society going, and at huge physical cost. So many industries that turn the world’s cogs, are run by those working themselves to death, and I mean that quite literally. To some they are called ‘the death professions’, and they are the job sectors that very few are advocating for ‘equal representation’ within. Laying bricks, driving trucks, climbing the scaffolding, descending down mine shafts, and journeying into the ocean, to feed society, often to never return. A staggering 100,000+ people die within the global fishing industry each year, and whilst it remains the world’s most dangerous job, it is by no means alone in providing these terrifying statistics. So is it time we gave these extraordinarily dangerous industries, that are dominated by men, the support, appreciation and protections they deserve? If 4,700 men die every year in America at work, why is there no Men’s Bureau (as there is for women) within the U.S. Department for Labor? We hear about the unpaid labour of women, but very little is said about the labour these thousands of men pay, with their very lives. So what is to be said about the millions of poor men and boys, working in the most dangerous places in the world, so all of us can go about our days, and do nothing to help them? What about the death professions? ~ Pew  American workplace Deaths American War Deaths Images by Zinko Hein, Ben Iwara, Bill Wegener, Ray Zhou, Noaa, Josh Olalde, Dimitri Depenov. #modernslavery #humanrights #fisherman

2023-07-22