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The decline of small commerce

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Posted on 2024-09-13 in

Source: Labayru Foundation Photo Archive. Author: Nerea Etxebarria.

The habits and ways of life of people who change over the years are prosperous, and it is ethnography that seeks collecting these transformations, to some extent.

One of these customs, which has been greatly altered by modern life, is that of small commerce. According to many correspondents and informants, the presence of women in workplaces has been one of the most significant changes in the family life of the twentieth and the twenty-first century so far. For a long time, families were larger, and it was common for three generations to live in the same house: grandparents, parents, and children. Besides, woman devoted herself to housework, and there was always someone at home.

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Geu be bagara itsasoa (Women of the sea)

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Posted on 2023-01-27 in
Oihana Garatea (neskatila), Ispasterren, 2022. Labayru Fundazioaren Argazki Artxiboa.

Oihana Garatea, net weaver from Lekeitio (Bizkaia), 2022. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

The Geu be bagara itsasoa project was unveiled at the Itsasmuseum in Bilbao this morning. Representatives of the Labayru Foundation and the Basque Government were there, along with some of the women seafarers involved in the project and who have been its alma mater.

In fact, the project seeks to highlight and showcase the important work of generations of women seafarers; to shed light on the evolution of their trades and call for their well-deserved recognition.
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