— Ship-Breakers of Bangladesh
This article is connected with an event at the Asia Society – rg
Please come out for the opening of the SHIPBREAKERS OF BANGLADESH show
@ Asia Society on June 6th. 80% of the world’s ships are now
dismantled in two countries: Bangladesh & India. In this exhibit, we
look at how this dangerous and toxic work migrated from the developed
world to South Asia.
Below is more detail about the show, as well as an excerpt from an
essay which will be in a catalogue given out to show visitors.
1. Ship-Breakers of Bangladesh: The Myth of Global Labor Equality
Opening June 6 @ Asia Society
http://deepquote.net/w8t0i9lrphu
2. Dirty Ships, Dangerous Work and Global Labor
http://www.shobak.org/new_comments.php?id=218_0_26_0_C
3. Preview of Robert Bailey’s Photos
http://www.baileyphoto.com
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Shipbreakers of Bangladesh:
Dirty Ships, Dangerous Work and Global Labor
by Naeem Mohaiemen
“It is brutal and primeval. One of many injustices in Bangladesh,
dressed up as a success story by a deceitful elite.” – Farid Bakht,
journalist
In 1992, The Economist revealed a memo written by the World Bank’s
former chief economist Lawrence Summers. The memo discussed the
economic rationale for “encouraging more migration of dirty
industries” to Less Developed Countries (LDC):
“The measurements of the costs of health-impairing pollution depends
on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality. From
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