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What are the hazards of running the glass bangle industry?

Solution

Running the glass bangle industry is full of hazards. Workers are not easily available. The temperature of the glass furances is very high. There is neither sufficient light nor air in the dingy cells. This spoils the health, eye-sight and other parts of the workers’ body. The low-paid workers leave their jobs of suffering a perpetual state of grinding poverty. The owners of industries have to employ the child labour illegally. Such children have no access to education. They are contrained to lose the brightness of their eyes before they become adults. Their industries are nicknamed ‘slaughter-houses or cripplers’. If the industrialists pay higher wages to labourers, their margin of profit will be lessened. As a result, they would be forced to lead a life of misery and deprivation. Above all, there is an intervention of middlemen, moneylenders, politicians and policemen.