Saturday, 18 January 2020

Death of a female pitworker at 70



Given the enthusiasm of some political figures in the United Kingdom to extend the retirement age, and the financial clobbering already given to the WASPI women, here's how it used to be.

Jeanie Seath is, unfortunately, just a footnote in history, but this little obituary from 1917 shows how hard a life she, and so many like her, had to endure.

You'd have thought a century on we would have progressed a little further, never mind legislating on turning the clock back.



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