The Brickworks Ladies Convene a Meeting
May 23, 2020 15:15:24 #
West Bengal, India.
Brickworks in India are notorious for using indentured child and female labourers. They have to work in intolerable conditions of heat and dust for wages that are hardly sufficient to exist on. Their husbands are often farmers who have left the farm to seek a better-paid job in the cities in order to support their families. They soon find that the city streets are not paved with gold.
This brickworks is an exception to the rule. It was taken over by the surrounding villages and run as a co-op. A more happy bunch of ladies would be hard to find.
Brickworks in India are notorious for using indentured child and female labourers. They have to work in intolerable conditions of heat and dust for wages that are hardly sufficient to exist on. Their husbands are often farmers who have left the farm to seek a better-paid job in the cities in order to support their families. They soon find that the city streets are not paved with gold.
This brickworks is an exception to the rule. It was taken over by the surrounding villages and run as a co-op. A more happy bunch of ladies would be hard to find.
May 23, 2020 15:16:47 #
May 23, 2020 17:48:29 #
May 24, 2020 08:22:54 #
May 25, 2020 19:16:25 #
Graham Smith wrote:
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Great information about the "not so happy" brickworks. Glad to see that there is some progress for some of these workers.
Erich
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