LabourStart’s Photo of the Year: Child Labor in Bangladesh

[Omaha Steve]

Several links in story at link.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/11/09/labourstarts-photo-of-the-year-child-labor-in-bangladesh/

by James Parks, Nov 9, 2009


This photo of a Bangladeshi boy working in a shipbuilding factory is the winner of the 2009 LabourStart Photo of the Year contest.

Subscribers to the global online labor news service LabourStart selected K.M. Asad’s striking photo of a Bangladeshi boy working in a shipbuilding plant as the Labor Photo of the Year. These factories employ young boys as apprentices without pay for the first few years. They work in extreme conditions without safety tools or other protective gears.

The photo contest is designed to encourage and recognize the talents of worker-photographers around the world while encouraging activists to tell the stories of workers’ struggles in photos. This is the group’s second photo contest. Click here to see the 2009 finalists.

The first prize is a two-year pro account on Flickr.com. The runners-up received a one-year pro account. The finalist photos also are displayed in the art gallery on the Union Island in Second Life.

Finalists were selected by a three-judge panel. The judges are photojournalist and author David Bacon; Gretchen Donart, a communications organizer in Seattle; and Mac Urata, secretary of the Inland Transport Sections of the International Transport Workers’ Federation and a leading labor photographer.

LabourStart provides daily labor news links in more than 20 languages and a news syndication service used by more than 700 trade union websites. News is collected from mainstream, trade union and alternative news sources by a network of more than 500 volunteer correspondents based on every continent.

It also conducts e-mail outreach campaigns, the Radio LabourStart network and UnionBook, an online social network for union members and activists. In August, LabourStart held its annual conference at the AFL-CIO here in Washington, D.C. Click here, here, here, here and here for coverage of the conference.

To subscribe to LabourStart, visit the news service’s home page here and sign up at the bottom.

[madrchsod]

1. this is what i had to compete against....

as a former steel worker i feel sorry for these guys. i can`t imagine working hot steel with no protective clothing,gloves, and masks.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmasad/3951173038/