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Brick Kiln Workers

Documentary on the lives of brick kiln labourers

Author : Aide Et Action (South Asia) | 2012
Published By: Aide-et-Action

A documentary feature describing the severity of the lives of migrant labourers in India's brick making industry. The brick making industry in India, is the largest in the world, second only to China with more than 150,000 production units and providing employment to an estimated 10 million workers. With rapid urbanization, the demand from this industry has increased, luring more and more people to look for wage employment in this sector. Most of the workers are migrant families forced to migrate due to distressed conditions in the state of their origin. Lack of farm income, low agricultural productivity, limited access to development schemes has been contributing to the mass exodus of communities, sometimes even entire villages to the brick kilns. Primarily based in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, theses units are infamous for their harsh working conditions where labourers have to work for about 16 hours a day under inhumane conditions. Even children are not spared and contribute to the family income. This feature by Aide-et-Action, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), captures the deplorable working conditions and the blatant abuse of human rights that goes unnoticed in this industry.

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