In the third world, the absolute worst has to be the "shit sweeper" caste of India. It is the job of some such members to jump in the hole of an outhouse and clean the insides. Their ancestors have done the same for eons as will probably their children even in this day and age.
Indian shipbreaker is one of the worst and ironically the result of environmentalist actions here in the U.S. Ship breaking used to be done dry dock, mostly here and Canada, but the enviro whack jobs got there way and made it too expensive to do here. India has no such burden and the environmental/labor rights nightmare is the result. Another disaster brought to you by the radical left.
The labourers that break apart a ship, I think India has most of them. They have no protection and run around in shorts and bare feet cutting apart the ships. Oil, asbestos is all over the place.
There was a program on one of those learning channels (TLC, History Channel, etc..) republicans can't bear to watch over the weekend showing shipbreaking in Baltimore Maryland. The so called environmentalist whackjobs saw it fit to first remove the asbestos and other harmful materials first before a large crane with a claw would dismantle the ship and cut it into pieces for transport to a recycling facility.
So now it's done right on the beach by slave labor, polluting miles upon miles of land and ocean, while killing hundreds of people in the process. You would call that progress?
Its done in an old shipbuilding yard that has been converted into shipbreaking. There is no beach. There is no killing hundreds of people, its in Baltimore, Maryland not Baghdad, Iraq.