Thursday, February 10, 2005

Miners get the Blind Shaft

MINING DEATHS IN CHINA
1995 - 5,990 dead
2002 - 5791 dead
2004 year to Sept - 4153
Sources: Official figures; IEA and China Labour Bulletin
and see link above for BBC article

Also, if you get a chance to see the new movie Blind Shaft by Yang Li, Bubba says go.

The setting is in present day Chinese coal mines. The theme is not really about labor rights or dangerous working conditions however. It is about the nitty-gritty grimness of working life in China, and the callously selfish corruption that emanates from such conditions.
Blind Shaft as a film is one of the best released this past year.

This is an update for our previous bloggence about coal mines in China.


posted by E. Heroux @ 6:02 PM

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