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Shipbreaking is an absurdly dangerous job, and the "Brothers" sequence in Workingman's Death covers this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workingman%27s_Death ht

Shipbreaking is an absurdly dangerous job, and the "Brothers" sequence in Workingman's Death covers this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workingman%27s_Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workingman%27s_Death

t_mahmood 2y ago
I have not keeping track of this anymore, but, from the last time I read on this: A LOT of people go disabled, amputee from freak accidents, on a regular basis, and receive NO support from the owners, and life expectancy go really, really low. The whole business is controlled by a group of people, who have no ethical sense, and environmental concern, and these people are so powerful, no one can do anything to them. There's no pollution control here, so all the harmful chemicals go into the sea, and land, which basically have made the whole seaside area unusable for crops, which mean, people who were farmers can't farm anymore, and have to work in these yards. And die pretty fast. And obviously, as the chemicals are getting mixed in the land, it is affecting the people too. But again these people are so powerful, no one can say anything about it.
2rsf 2y ago
Is it an inherently dangerous job or is it dangerous because of how it is managed?
- TylerE 2y ago
  Both. With western automation, rules and PPE it would be no worse than building the things in the first place
  - resolutebat 2y ago
    It's probably worse than building them. When building a ship, we have a pretty good idea of how brand new materials for construction behave and have an exact plan for putting them together. Shipbreaking, on the other hand, involves chopping up enormous chunks of rusty steel of unknown but generally terrible condition (that's why they're getting broken up), meaning they can fail in unexpected ways at any time, plus you're basically flying blind because you don't have the original plans etc.

t_mahmood 2y ago

I have not keeping track of this anymore, but, from the last time I read on this: A LOT of people go disabled, amputee from freak accidents, on a regular basis, and receive NO support from the owners, and life expectancy go really, really low. The whole business is controlled by a group of people, who have no ethical sense, and environmental concern, and these people are so powerful, no one can do anything to them. There's no pollution control here, so all the harmful chemicals go into the sea, and land, which basically have made the whole seaside area unusable for crops, which mean, people who were farmers can't farm anymore, and have to work in these yards. And die pretty fast. And obviously, as the chemicals are getting mixed in the land, it is affecting the people too. But again these people are so powerful, no one can say anything about it.

2rsf 2y ago

Is it an inherently dangerous job or is it dangerous because of how it is managed?

TylerE 2y ago
Both. With western automation, rules and PPE it would be no worse than building the things in the first place
- resolutebat 2y ago
  It's probably worse than building them. When building a ship, we have a pretty good idea of how brand new materials for construction behave and have an exact plan for putting them together. Shipbreaking, on the other hand, involves chopping up enormous chunks of rusty steel of unknown but generally terrible condition (that's why they're getting broken up), meaning they can fail in unexpected ways at any time, plus you're basically flying blind because you don't have the original plans etc.