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One of the young workers at the Dhaka port carries chain and spanners, Dhaka port, Bangladesh, July 2007. There is no formal worker-management relationship, job security or social safety-net schemes for them. 98% of the labor in scrapping yards are illite
Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

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