An Untidy Package: Women and the Newfoundland Cod Moratorium (1997)

An Untidy Package sets out to dispel the popular misconception that Newfoundland women weren’t major players in the cod fishery before the moratorium, and that the federal compensation they received was only added to their husband’s claims to increase their family’s allowance. We learn at the outset that one third of the 35,000 workers displaced were women. Using the viewpoint of some of these women, this video examines the cod crisis and its social implications for families.

Released Sept. 15, 1997 48 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: aspectratio.4-3, tmdb.fish, tmdb.codfish, tmdb.women, tmdb.fishery, tmdb.fisherwoman, tmdb.woman

Production Companies: ONF | NFB, NIFCO

Country: Canada
Production Country: Canada
Languages: English