shipbreaking
Shipbreaking
According to the Gujarat Maritime Board, there were approximate 230 workers who have died at Alang, the reputation ship-breaking yard in India. The Bangladeshi media announced that over 400 workers have killed and 6000 seriously injured which were data that have been reported over the last 20 years in the shipbreaking industry. Working in the ship breaking yards is an extremely dangerous job, which involves a lot of serious injuries and even death in this industry in South Asia: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in every year. Despite perceived dangerous, why people still have worked in the ship breaking yards. The obvious reason to explain the question is people have lived in misery. People do not have any choices for supporting themselves and their families than to work in the ship breaking yards. William Langewiesche, in the chapter 6 “ On The Beach” of “The Outlaw Sea” mentions the same problem is the plight of the ship breaking workers, living and environment conditions, and occupational health and safety regulations. The poverty is a cause that leads people who have to work in the ship breaking yards at Alang and Bhavnagar. The laborers are starvation and illiteracy “who would work hard for a dollar or two a day”, “keep the unions out”, “accept injuries and deaths without complaint.” The extremely cheap wages and labor exploitation are found in this industry: “They toiled under shipyard supervisors, who dispensed the jobs, generally in return for a cut from the workers’ already meager pay.” Even though workers were paid a starvation wage, they still chose to work because ship braking is a livelihood to them. The workers lived in misery just near to the yards. Their living and environment conditions are very poor: “in a narrow shantytown that had no sanitation, and for the most part no power”, “ the air there was filled with fecal odors, which mixed with the waves of smoke and industrial dust to permeate the settlement with a potent
According to the Gujarat Maritime Board, there were approximate 230 workers who have died at Alang, the reputation ship-breaking yard in India. The Bangladeshi media announced that over 400 workers have killed and 6000 seriously injured which were data that have been reported over the last 20 years in the shipbreaking industry. Working in the ship breaking yards is an extremely dangerous job, which involves a lot of serious injuries and even death in this industry in South Asia: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in every year. Despite perceived dangerous, why people still have worked in the ship breaking yards. The obvious reason to explain the question is people have lived in misery. People do not have any choices for supporting themselves and their families than to work in the ship breaking yards. William Langewiesche, in the chapter 6 “ On The Beach” of “The Outlaw Sea” mentions the same problem is the plight of the ship breaking workers, living and environment conditions, and occupational health and safety regulations. The poverty is a cause that leads people who have to work in the ship breaking yards at Alang and Bhavnagar. The laborers are starvation and illiteracy “who would work hard for a dollar or two a day”, “keep the unions out”, “accept injuries and deaths without complaint.” The extremely cheap wages and labor exploitation are found in this industry: “They toiled under shipyard supervisors, who dispensed the jobs, generally in return for a cut from the workers’ already meager pay.” Even though workers were paid a starvation wage, they still chose to work because ship braking is a livelihood to them. The workers lived in misery just near to the yards. Their living and environment conditions are very poor: “in a narrow shantytown that had no sanitation, and for the most part no power”, “ the air there was filled with fecal odors, which mixed with the waves of smoke and industrial dust to permeate the settlement with a potent