Sunday, December 07, 2008

Piling on the Bricks


With a population of around 7.5 million, laborers are plentiful in Chennai. You see people sweeping the highways and roads with a broom, cleaning out the road drainage by hand (even during the rain), and conducting a fair amount of the construction with manual labor. This man carefully balanced himself as he proceeded to pile more bricks on top of each other, walking with the load on his head towards the apartment construction site. Watch your step!

3 comments:

Dan Enderle said...

wow.. and barefoot too! ouch! I'll use a wheelbarrow thanks!

Melissa Enderle said...

No steel-toed shoes for him!

Pat said...

Yeah, safety standards are often overdone in the US, but it's better than having your toes or head crushed. My son had a great "Malaysian brick stacker" video I'll send you if he still has it on his email.