A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY ON WORKING CONDITIONS AND HEALTH HAZARDS OF BRICK KILN WORKERS IN COIMBATORE DISTRICT

Abstract

The Indian brick manufacturing industry is a centuries-old unorganised sector that employs a large number of migrant women workers (Bijetri and Sen 2014).Women have become an essential part of the manpower resources in these unorganised sectors, but the female workers here suffer in silence. Employees in the brick business are a group that come from low-income backgrounds. The poorest and most vulnerable people in rural life are brick kiln workers. (Rajanna 2020). Although some mechanisation was introduced in developed countries, conditions in India have not improved and human drudgery still prevails (Bijetri and sen 2014).