The Wire Nest...life In Mumbai's Shipbreaking Yards
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2013
- We all have heard of the Titanic, its love story, and how it laid to rest under the ocean. But for lesser ships there is a different grave waiting. One which is an obscure & lucrative business for a few known as Ship breaking, Countless numbers of used ships are sent to developing countries like China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Turkey where they are systematically broken down by the cheap labor hired by these ship breakers . 'The Wire Nest...Life In Mumbai's Ship-Breaking Yards' is a documentary on the condition of these workers, the majority who live in filthy and hazardous circumstances .This documentary specifically gives an insight on the conditions of the ship breaking workers in Mumbai the city which is the hub for many activities known and unknown. To build awareness and give an insight on the deteriorating conditions of the workers. And the shocking lack of human consideration given to them. Take note as this time we go even deeper into the graveyard taking a closer glimpse into the hardships and tragedies these workers face, doing their job while constantly being under real mortal danger .The story of a family man, a lady who lost her family, a family who got compensation for their dead son, and the result of the workers strike for a fellow worker. A honest glimpse into the cogs that run the ship breaking industry.
- Krátké a kreslené filmy
If you ever think you are having a bad day at work, just remember to come back to this clip and see what hell some people's lives are
Ha, if you think this is bad, trying working for dementia Joe and Kamalahoe🕷.
The guy cutting the circle with a torch though!!
At 9:10 what makes me proud as Indian. He still has a flag next to Gods pics. He is not a gaddar, he sends his kids to school, and he goes to his “duty” even he is hungry. That’s the dedication of a true India. Lalan, you are a superhero sir.
Thank you. You understand responsibility, many commentors live in a fantisy land where the government or rich people are to blame for problems the percieve. I think the fellow working very hard needs to be congratulated, that is how, families, communities and people grow into prosperity, not by condimnation of workers or where they work. It is work, where it is sparse.
I live in Mumbai. I live in a nice life. I dont have any troubles because my family is rich. Now i realized how poor people survive. I cryed that time. This gave me a inspiration that if poor people can survive like this than i have a nice life and i should also give my best. Jai Hind!!!!!!!
One of carreers most eye opening trip was to India. I'll never forget the kindness and spirit of the workers I meet. Willing to share a meal, knowing it's all they could afford. Some didn't even own a pair of shoes.
They don't use condoms, do they? You're the typical superior-feeling Westerner who wants to show how very compassionate he is to the poor, stupid yet happy and wonderfully generous people in this part of the world.
Backpacker Thrulife...............what's your fucking problem, Fred was merely relating a positive encounter he had traveling. How is his comment in anyway "superior feeling" or pretending to show HIS compassion? As well you're beaking off about...condoms WTF? You're just a miserable asshole striking at people anonymously. You're a loser.
clearly you lack schooling.
Flying into Mumbai airport for the first time was such a shock. The shanty towns are right up against the fence surrounding the airport. The city was a massive contrast for me, seeing mega rich and mega poor often within yards of each other. I will never forget my visit.
I can't even imagine the ratio of accidents at work in this place, it must be crazy
@Joel Really? And they have nuclear weapons, carriers and submarines. How They do that ?
A lovely film with powerful storylines. Beautifully shot and an authentic, insider's, view of the harsh working conditions and lives of India's poorest workers. Keep up the good work!
Excellent film. Well done, and thanks!
Great documentary Prathamesh. I had the pleasure of meeting your dad and sister while I was in Mumbai last year - very solid, hard-working unionists fighting the good fight. I also took a tour of the yards, which was a staggering reminder of how harsh work is for many. This doc captures both the awfulness of the yards, and the fantastic effort folks are making in defending themselves against some pretty horrendous employers.
Crazy to think that ship breaking yard was once a pristine natural habitat
Kev so was your driveway and the roads you drive on. Amazing how you snowflakes cherry pick
john knowing it’s crazy how my neighborhood was once a pristine habitat. Don’t worry I thought of that too you prick. You don’t know anything about me.
Kev I know a hell of a lot about people like you city/suburbanites that go around thinking you one with nature and tout that for a social standing thinking your stewards of the earth and special better then others. So explain why you say “it’s crazy how my neighborhood was once a pristine habitat” what does that even mean, your such a snowflake.. man needs a place to live stupid called neighborhoods/cities. But you have no problem using manmade pollution products such as buying a P.C. boated from overseas to post you hiking trips. Actually you snowflakes never get the big picture. You all bitch about the habitat going away yet have kids etc to perpetuate the earth recourses being consumed, or places like India’s double the birth rate and how not that long ago close to half of India’s population daily shits in the public streets and beside roads and wipe their ass with their hands and they having double the births rates VS other countries,, NOPE you Liberals cant say this, that’s racist.. Me I grew up with a creek in my backyard and woods and near the Amish that live more off grid then most others yet theirs no such thing as living off the grid. Wrap this around your head. You people will NEVER really do anything about keeping things in large form “pristine” what’s even wackier is you liberals don’t give a rats ass your voter base Ghettos polluting our city streets and do nothing about the Liberals voter base street killings and how a kid told to sleep on the floor in case a stray bullet flies through the house and the floor less chance of a stray bullet hitting that child sleeping. But oohh lets save, rescue a dog so you Libs can act like they are better then the average Joe. Oh lets not use plastic bags and use paper straws to save a planet.. So you say “ Crazy to think that ship breaking yard was once a pristine natural habitat” so what’s YOUR solution to this. Yep your a typical Liberal bitching about using a “pristine natural habitat” but NO solution this necessary process. So where should this be done stupid not using landmass. So how much did YOU buy in your lifetime goods that came by a ship? So when you stop being the cause of this and have NO solutions then shut your liberal crap Ass I mentioned living in Puerto Rico part time.,On the roof most all have a solar hot water heater and why isn’t that used in the states like Fl. Calf etc and NOT use so much electric? When projection TVs came out in 1947 mass-produced in the 2000. They had a parabolic lens that in the sun produces up to 2,700 degrees, which can be focused on a heat exchanger to heat homes OR make a mini heat turbine to make electric, why isn’t this done. The Liberals have NO platform to say vote for me and well have clean energy, which we already have with the parabolic lenses
So if the unemployment is solved like Trump did pre virus, and we have clean heating of homes then what will the Libs tout fort their agendas to win votes. Just on a side not global warming comes from asphalt roads and roofs. Liberals wont tell you this because how do you stop building roads!!! So far all the house roofs and public roads in the U.S. combined would cover several states. Asphalt on the in gets up to 140 degrees. That said I KNOW you and how you process pinhead
john knowing sorry bro I didn’t read any of that. Waaaaay to long
Kev Lol you really expect me to believe you didn’t read my whole post, a page long at best.. Just by you responding means you read the whole post.. It hit home so much all you could come back with is a lame “way to long to read” Human nature says you probably read it more then once.. I’ve always said you humans are so simple and think all this is new in life. I realized this back in 7th grade and came up with a saying that depicts just that. “He who knows what one knows not, knows not what there really is to know” Humans (liberals) like you are so predictable in cause and effect responses and your patterns. So when was the last time you questioned why are you so insecure to think you’re a steward of nature and the planet not unlike how Dem libs took a house pet, dog into a status symbol to worship an animal as you eat animals.
I can't decide what's worse. Dying in these shit holes. Or growing old in them...
Oof. That’s depressing
Never say you hate your job again! It's almost embarrassing how spoiled and entitled America is becoming. Be incredibly thankful and mindful how great we have it here..
My heart really goes out to these people. May God bless and protect them.
Great Documentary, I have visited the place and could relate to your material..
Thank you for the good insight.....
I would say that if their union is 92 years old and this best they get after all these years, then they need a new union! Ridiculous.
+mel faulkner The union was port & dock workers they changed their constitution & name to port trust dock & general workers to help Ship breaking workers & have been doing it since 2003
Well... back again for another "head check".
Amazing how one 22 minute video can make my "problems" instantly disappear.
A magnificent video; hope the working conditions will improve.😊
Very impressive how aware and well articulated that guys is, despite being illiterate and spending his whole life in such extreme conditions.
He said illiterate not retarded
I think the birds are showing great resourcefulness, in using what is available and not necessarily that they must use it.
The thing that pisses me off is the devastation to the environment that is happening. The oil, fuel, waste, being sucked into the ground and out to sea.
Then the people living in these countrys wonder why tourists do not come, farm lands wont grow, fish are becoming endangered etc etc.
I'ts not the people they are just doing a job .. if they don't they starve
EXACTLY CDN
Its thr companies... the people need work to buy food and support their families.. im sure you or i would do anything if we were desperate... think before you speak sir...
CDN Welding by
As I pointed out in a post above, this industry employs a miniscule fraction of the available labor force, but it's probably poisoning the environment for tens of millions.
I came here from watching large cruise ships in stormy weather..........however i gave this documentary a chance and ended up watching the whole film, very touching, sometimes wee in the west just don't know how lucky wee are. I prey that the work with the union continues to improve for these men and women that work in these horrible conditions.
Great work!
It was after I had done this work in Wilmington NC that I discovered the reasons that it was no longer done in the US. It was just as dangerous for me as it is for the others in the world who end up doing this sort of work. I was there in Wilmington for their movie business. The man I worked for told me he was certain DeLaurentis was a mobster. His US story was one of making big money from going bankrupt. No doubt about it that I am proud I have survived doing work that is as dangerous as any working man may end up doing to get a few bucks.
I bet the shipbreaking managers and upper supervisors drive around in Mercedes benz and sports cars, and in the meantime these workers don't even earn a plate of food after a hard days work . That is so unjust.
Yah it is called globalism. Both socialism and capitalism are colonizers. Happy times... money is leaving the west to only end up in the hands of the elites overseas muahaha. Inequality for all.
Actually I know some people who were in the ship breaking industry, it would be convenient to paint them as the bad guys, but the industry is dead in Mumbai, because all the owners went bankrupt. and unfortunately for the workers they dont even have these jobs anymore. because the ship-selling companies demand huge prices for their discarded ships.. so as usual a lion share of all money flows back into the western world's bank accounts...
Overseas means europe also.
DeltaLou lol so true. Esp with illegal which both liberals and conservatives like for different reasons. Though tbh the minimum wage in most US states is laughable.
nice documentry ... good work.
Great video documentary
"Every day one ship, every day one dead."- Alang proverb.
Shipbreaking is an ugly, filthy business. But you'll have to admit it's very interesting watching those guys cut those things up. It's like a carefully choreographed art, as it demands skill and many very watchful eyes.
clearly you lack schooling.
@@cataclysmal5315 Clearly you've never put in a solid day's work in all your fucking life. Skill doesn't always come with a college degree. Actually it never comes with schooling. Skill comes from experience.
government should ensure that proper safety equipment is provided to all workers, this documentary is really raising this issue ,thanks for their efforts. 👍👍
The fellow at 2:21 is quite skilled with that cutting torch. One-handing a curve like that isn't as easy as it looks. Shame that talent gets so little reward. There is no progress for labor without collective bargaining.
This is actual men doing actual work. Holy shit
We have an airplane breaking yard at our regional airport that literally everyone hates. It’s only here because it was kicked out of the last airport they used to occupy. I imagine it’s only a matter of time before they get thrown somewhere else. In 20 years I bet it’s also in India.
How could an aircraft scrapping outfit be problematic unless residential areas grew around it after it was established? Aircraft scrapping (I'm a lifelong aircraft mechanic familiar with the process) is simple, tidy and clean while recovering valuable alloys after removing parts for remanufacturing. NAME THE YARD and I'll find out for myself.
@@obfuscated3090 it’s loud as fuck on days when they are chewing the fuselages up. They also stack loads and loads of airplanes that they may or may not ever break down? Some have been sitting for years, kind of an eye sore. Our airport is next to one of the largest neighborhoods in town that was already there prior to the airport leasing the hangers to this company. Luckily I don’t live in the neighborhood any longer although my mother still does.
Why aren't the subtitles, much larger, and, in black, so we can see and read it properly.? Didn't you check the video before you published it.?
Thank you for the very enlightening video. It is abhorrent that people should consider basic necessities like clean water, food, and basic hygiene a luxury. Please ignore the negative comments people choose to leave, they're angry and don't know how else to express themselves. God bless you!
All them people looting and burning in the USA should be sent to Mumbai for a year
You dumb ass. The only reason it’s better in the USA is because of protests. That included the Boston tea party which was looting and burning. I do not condone looting and burning but at which point does a population say, enough?
@@frankbutaric3565 Zip it Frank you too can go over to the Mumbai. Both my storefront and my vehicle were vandalized and stolen from. My insurance did not protect me because I was behind on a payment due to expanding store costs. Is that enough, for you? I am to be quiet and suffer the cost because you are incapable to holding your neighbor accountable. YOU are who is enabling the destroying the social cohesion of the country
Another video that makes me thankful for what I have and where I live!
Wow! Makes me really appreciate what I have and live for in america
This video is much better than the one from National Geographic.
Note the HUGE piles and truckloads of acetylene tanks around the yard; my bet is that the breaking yard pays more for cutting fuel than they do for labor; acetylene isn't cheap.
I think those are the oxygen cylinders. They seem to be using propane for the combustible fuel. Propane is much cheaper than acetylene. I used propane myself for doing commercial scrapping in the U.S., and learned from other scrappers and scrap yard owners. These propane tanks are shown piled at: 2:28, many blue with red. Also shown are the longer cylinders. I won't swear they are all only oxygen, but they usually go the very cheapest route they can. And you make a good point. If they paid the workers more, they would substitute machines for workers wherever possible
They make their own acetylene from carbide in most yards.
You know things are tough when the birds are making nests from steel wire.
wow i didnt know how good i have it here till i watched this, i feel sorry for those people.
How much did they pay for the hotel to hold the conference.
That amount could pay the workers for at least a month.
Even the union guys want to live large.
When your country's biggest resource is a total lack of environmental protection and worker safety laws, and an unending supply of desperate men.
It is amazing what they do, but still the situation is so sad.
Felling bad for the elder brother, RIP 😢💐
In Canada, on job sites, you use the stuff around the site to build tools to make the job easier and solve the problems....scraps of all kinds would be used, invented by the workers, use the torches, other stuff on hand and make it easier
God bless the hard working men of India.
Someone has to earn too little for someone else to earn too much
Someone is allowed to earn more. There's millions of poor for thousands of rich. Allowed. That's the word dummy.
Even if the CEOs dropped their salaries; there’s not enough to pay hourly 125k a year.
Musk, Bezos etc have assets not $$ in the billions.
That said; look up properties/real estate. 40% of home sales go to investment properties; meaning the owner won’t be living in the home... they’re gonna rent it out.
This 40% cuts into the supply and keeps real estate inflated, pushing out middle/lower income earners.
Perpetual renters; perpetually poor.
These people should get together and change things
This was hard to watch, the living conditions for these workers is unimaginable. Breaks my heart.
13:57 What?! You need an ID in India to vote? What a strange policy... And as for the poverty - that's just what happens in an overpopulated country ruled by people with power who just want more power and money.
Google it dumbass.
Many countries have an identification system for elections.
Perhaps ur country doesn't hold fair elections, that is why ur fucking shocked
Yep, somehow Biden and Pelosi claiming the black community can't get free ID or a driving licence isn't racism or the bigotry of low expectation!!
They've learnt how to win an election with a shit candidate so they want to disenfranchise 51% of voters...appalling. New voting rules are unconstitutional and encourages fraud but if you're flooding communities with illegals then it all makes sense. Democrats have lost all their integrity and no longer want to represent working classes-just want to ensure their votes don't count.
At 2:21 that's some skilled torch work.
Right?! I was like damn! Clean ass cut!
+phlodel its on a compass
+superhyphy129 No, it's not on a radius cutter. Freehand. He's using his hand as a pivot point.
+phlodel india has one of the most skilled
people in the world ,
kailash verma which one is he?
this made me want to cry.
God bless thoses working man and woman
8:15 - - i am thinking of the children who have to grow up in such places, then stay there the rest of their lives. Everything they know is distress, hunger, poverty and death 😥
But the government, they can afford building the world's biggest statue 🙄
These men and women work very hard. I can take you to many places where they work as hard. Their pay, while very low by European and other developed countries is none the less PAY, God bless these people as they are doing their best as uneducated people to better their situation. India today is improving itself just like China, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and The Philippines have, via enterprise, not permanent state welfare. Let them have their job let them educate, let them improve. Our world condemnation will eliminate their job. Then what, they go back to the farm and no work. Let them decide, we have no right to look down on them. They are working. There are millions who cannot find a job. That is the hard truth.
True. UN promotes this condemnation because they don't really care about the workers. Instead of condemning this enterprise they should be helping to set up better living conditions and educate the people to help themselves. Notice, these people have no idea about hygiene and allow themselves to live in trash. This is totally fixable.
I appreciate your comment.
still looks better than some of the places i have worked in the uk
Brings home the truth!
This is a country with a space program.
Narrator says shipbreaking "...provides employment to about 66,000 workers in India..." Lemmie do the math; that's about ONE HALF of ONE ONE-TEN-THOUSANDTH, of the population, or 0.005 percent! And India poops out sixty-six thousand more babies every freakin' DAY! So, even if this 'industry' were ten times bigger, and performed in an environmentally responsible way, it would have ZERO measurable effect on India's poverty level. You have a bottomless pit of desperately poor people who will toil for a bowl of rice a day. Why would wage levels ever rise?
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Hi Prathamesh,
thanks.
We've added the video on our channel favorites :)
very nice
If the living conditions are such hell and the wages barely keeps them fed, why do they keep having kids?
They have kids as a form of insurance for later life . To look after them when ( if) they get sick or old. And so the cycle repeats itself.
condoms are also expensive)
Check average IQs for these areas. The upper castes keep the lower oppressed, backward and starving.
3:20 dude almost yeeted himself off the ship
i immediately thought of star wars as i saw the wide muddy landscape of the shipbreaking yard
suko ka ya? maayo padayon
Kann mann bygge omm noen båter til brakkerigg til arbeider og bruke vann rensesystemet ombor på båtene til og lage ferskvann ?
Breaks your heart to see such hardship and poverty in a world so full of rich bastards and fkn corrupt political leaders!!!
They are not taking care of port workers becz they are not contributing with their votes in elections ..
nothen like moving rusty metal with sandals..
A very, very good documentary, well shot, well edited and fairly well written abet the British regionalisms. But a bit detached from the key theme of a bird's nest of wire. The subtitles are nearly impossible to read! Why not a bigger font and a contrasting color?
Yeah.
See that PPE just everywhere...
video be like: It is no doubt that hundreds of humans are suffering at these shipwrecks, but also... birds. Birds are suffering more and need to build their nests out of wires
just no
Edit: I understand ecology and stuff is important and the birds are very impacted but I value humans more
Sad. Just sad.
...and, if they closed down these yards, the work would just go next door to breaker's yards in Pakistan or Bangladesh, where it would be welcomed. Every hulk that's driven ashore in those Hell Holes means that some of the locals eat for another week or so.
What's name of music while closing this video ?
Thank you for helping to make these great men known, an thank you for making this documentary. it makes me smile to see there union grow strong, we all need a union, every job, every worker needs a union.
Nothen like speed loading steel into the back of a truck with sandals on... 👍
It is the people whom we must blame..The reason why we are back is simply because we accept what is given. Once these people raise their voices united then they can sort out a solution, Instead of living life with problems. Also, they know what need to be done to get the benefits, but yet these people accept things.
I used to work at this ship yard ,
Back then i had to walk ten miles in the snow every day just to get to work had to share my safety flip flops with another worker on the night shift . . . Never complained once!
even today in 2017 the situation is no longer different than when this video was shot in 2012
5:28 "It is the responsibility of the employer to ensure every worker they hire is adequately paid, insured, and provided for by their provident fund, gratuity and pension"....."it is compulsory to provide PPE". Yeah.....right!! 26 year old worker gets killed, body lies in mortuary, employer doesn't give a fuck. Union boss call for strike and EVERYONE out.....one day later employer pays $9000 compensation to deceased mans family and everyone goes back to work. Glad to see also the dramatic changes brought about by the help of the Italian guy. The power of Trade Unionism.
5:12 "Birds have to use wire to build their nests because there's nothing else."
They could also fly a couple of kilometers away and build decent nests with branches. It's not like there's a shortage of bird real estate on the entire planet.
We have doves build nest from stainless wire and we have plenty of trees around the refinery.
Very sad state of affairs for those hardworking & poor workers. The odds are stacked against them and their families and no one ( who is legally responsible) from their employers to the authorities. Gives a toss about their welfare.
Documentary was covered some years back, now shipbreaking companies do compile with gobal practice for safety of workers, it should be other way round the shipowner should not sell the ship to company who don't adhere the safety and environment policy.
maybe these people should stop having kids everyone has like 8 of them cmon just stop
They have to have 8 so 1 or 2 survive to adulthood...
Who's going to look after them when they can't work any more?
@@justmeandjack 1-2 kids are ok but having 8-10 kids is not good.
@@JoshDisher insted of wasting money on rasing 8-12 kids hoping that only 1-2 kids will will last at end, they should raise only 1-2 kids. This will save them lots of money which they would have to spend on those extra 6-8 kids and survival of those 2 kids will be very high.
Hahahah i have only 4 should i make more ????
There’s many issues at play in this situation, ultimately it’s the people buying the scrap that drive the demand that creates this problem but it’s also overpopulation which is the case with so many undeveloped countries creating an endless supply of impoverished people desperate to work for a shitty existence so birth control should be addressed. If peoples lives weren’t so cheap the owners of these ship yards would have to employ systems and technology that would in the long run create a more economical and environmentally friendly solution to disposing of the old ships.
Hard to think that people live like this in the 21st century...
i know i cant even afford a plastic ring and that one worker had 2 gold rings.
Fines vel saltvann til ferskvann konvertere i Di store båtene eller
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They dont have basic necessities but they have satellite dishes? Priority?
who said they don't have basic necessities? all the workers are well fed and have homes, and the kids go to school.
And my coworker is worried which trash can his plastic water bottle goes in 🙄
The pays different... But work conditions are the same In Australia...
Note the workers being patted down as they leave the yard; that's to make sure they aren't walking out with any valuable metals like copper, brass, bronze, or stainless steel, or aluminum.
Why have children when they cannot survive 😭
how to stop them from mating
brijesh mishra im not sure. Maybe contraceptives and safe sex education
@@KevAlberta These both are out of reach of these people. The man is illiterate so is his wife.
V E no it doesn’t hurt my feelings. But it does tic me off that they basically condemn their children to the same fate their parents brought them into
V E
Look, America has it’s own issues. No question. Plenty of things America gets wrong. But any job site like this would be shout down immediately. Unsafe work conditions are not tolerated in the states.
a five year old video, they talk about "safety". and nothing has happened.
14:00 I bet every worker is happy to pass the strict security search..
They can’t even wash?! These poor precious people oh my god no one deserves a life like this
This type of illegal & inhumane work conditions cannot work in Western countries. Thus, these unfortunate folks in the developing countries have to risk their lives/health -- all for the sake of making a living wage. But, is this really living? This is HELL on earth, IMO.
This was the US and western nations 100+ years ago during our industrial revolutions. Workers fought against similar conditions and got all the rules and regulations we now enjoy. If India enacts similar regulations, these industries will move to Africa. The capitalist will always look to exploit whatever and whoever they can to make a buck.
No race of humans should have to live like this in 2019. SHAME ON THAT GOVERNMENT. God please help feed, bath and provide shelter for these people!
Shame on government i will give u 100thousand person in poor condition and u have make everyone wealthy education and fullfill all basic need then i will see how u will do ...our government person have more that million of people in territories ...
_Nitin _ Well, you should really first learn how to write before you give a reply like that.
Russ Gallagher Let me guess! You are one of those that profit from this shame, don’t know what government is? Look it up !
Race, what are you talking about, this is about people not race or any other bloody division, how old are you 13? 1F
Nice
Good luck to the workers.