Check out Al Jazeera's depressing/fascinating/shocking series "Working Man's Death". In today's technological age, is heavy manual labour disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? From the exhausted mine shafts of Ukraine to the bloody slaughterhouses of Nigeria, this series offers an unflinching portrait of physical labour in the 21st Century, talking to the people working in dreary, demanding, dangerous jobs. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/workingmansdeath/
Here is one program from the series. It is entitled "Ghosts" and is set in east Java where men climb steep paths carrying heavy loads of sulphur rock from the mouth of a volcano, in what looks to me like a living hell:
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