Next time you wear inexpensive Bangles, consider this...

[hollydolly]

Amazing, .. no health and safety rules here..

 

[Blessed]

You always find such interesting stuff. I had never heard of glass bangles. They are pretty, is it something that is available in the UK?

 

[hollydolly]

You always find such interesting stuff. I had never heard of glass bangles. They are pretty, is it something that is available in the UK?

oh yes.. we can get them easily enough especially in areas where there's a high concentration of Asians...

 

[Disgustedman]

There's also "Ship Breaking" these poor souls are thrilled making $3-$5 a day. Their job is as every bit dangerous as these making the bangles.

 

[Tish]

Wow, that is amazing.

 

[Victoria]

Wow!

 

[Rossana]

Thank you for sharing this information, hollydolly.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Of course, we in the UK also had our "Dark Satanic mills". In some areas spinning cotton was the chief occupation with young children employed and often injured or killed, to scramble under working machinery to collect the cotton waste. With all the noise and dust, the adult workers often became deaf or succumbed to lung diseases.

We at least have 'cleaned up our act' and these days are long gone, though my late M-i-L was a linen weaver and still suffered some hearing loss.

 

[George1959]

Of course, we in the UK also had our "Dark Satanic mills". In some areas spinning cotton was the chief occupation with young children employed and often injured or killed, to scramble under working machinery to collect the cotton waste. With all the noise and dust, the adult workers often became deaf or succumbed to lung diseases.

We at least have 'cleaned up our act' and these days are long gone, though my late M-i-L was a linen weaver and still suffered some hearing loss.

The Mini series "North and South" (BBC 2004) gives a good example of this stuff.

 

[hollydolly]

Of course, we in the UK also had our "Dark Satanic mills". In some areas spinning cotton was the chief occupation with young children employed and often injured or killed, to scramble under working machinery to collect the cotton waste. With all the noise and dust, the adult workers often became deaf or succumbed to lung diseases.

We at least have 'cleaned up our act' and these days are long gone, though my late M-i-L was a linen weaver and still suffered some hearing loss.

yes but that was a hundred years ago... not now ..

 

[hearlady]

They're very pretty. It's amazing to learn how much labor and sweat goes into the finished product!