Ship breaking industry

I am intrigued by the similarity between what is going on at the moment between the government and the ship-breaking industry - and a particular point in British history.
A few months ago, I attended a lecture that told listeners of the appalling facts of the ship-breaking industry and that it was in the hands of around 20 very rich and powerful individuals who had, so far, successfully resisted all attempts to reform it.
In 2007, the UK celebrated the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. (Slavery itself was abolished throughout the British Empire later.) It had brought huge wealth into Britain, especially the ports of London, Liverpool and Bristol. The very idea of abolishing it seemed absurd. Indeed, the Prime Minister, William Pitt, said to William Wilberforce, the major Parliamentarian in the fight, “It is a great idea, William, but you can't do it because it would split the Tory (later, the Conservative) Party!”
But the campaigners did it. In fact, they invented some of the techniques of campaigning that others were to copy later. They built up an enormous, nation-wide, educational programme, teaching rich and poor alike the ghastly facts of the trade - and significant people joined them. Josiah Wedgewood, in the Potteries, made a mug that people bought and put on their mantelpieces, with the picture of a black man in chains and, if I remember rightly, the caption was 'The slave - my brother.' Slowly the campaign destroyed the awful assumption of most white people of those days, that those with brown or black skins were not as admirably human as they were.
Slowly the nation was driven to the point at which enough people believed that, even if the slave trade was hugely profitable, it stank to heaven and had to go. Parliament abolished it in 1807.
However, the truth remains that no country wakes up one morning to discover it is a developed country! It can only be achieved by years of persistent hope, selfless sacrifice, amazing courage, dogged faith and caring love - all of which inspire people not to run away from the painful business of facing up to the evils of society and those 'politico-businessmen' who bluster and threaten as they see the power of their ill-gotten gains disappearing. It takes public support and the readiness of a large crop of carefully cultivated New People who are able to take their place and cleanse the rotten old ways of doing things and replace them with good. (No cleansing of an industry will work if the Old Management is replaced by a New Management which is no different.) There is no short cut and the answer is a great deal more difficult and personally demanding than “Give us more money”.
So, what about the Bangladeshi ship-breaking industry about which moving, and shocking, documentaries have been made - and shown round the world? What group of people will start a project that may take more than 30 years to triumph as the early anti-slave traders did, not fearing the initial 'It's impossible!' and continuing until 'We've done it!'