Laborers in Traditional Industries

Images depict laborers in various settings: a brick factory, a laundry area, and a tannery. Each scene shows workers engaged in physical tasks, highlighting daily life and industry.

Man lifting heavy buckets with water.

Labourers are working at a brick factory on May Day. May 1st is known as International Workers Day, and celebrated in over 80 countries across the world. Agartala. Trupura, India.

Mahalakshmi Dhobi Ghat, a large laundry district, Mumbai, India, Asia

Man lifting heavy buckets with water.

pakistan, karachi, daily life, worker

Tannery in Fez, Morocco

woman making brick, jaunpur, uttar pradesh, India Copyright: xNirmalaxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

Labourers are working at a brick factory on May Day. May 1st is known as International Workers Day, and celebrated in over 80 countries across the world. Agartala. Trupura, India.

People at work in the Chouwara Leather Tannery of Fez, Morocco

A man washes gold dust with water on in Sudan.

A LABOURER KEEPING LARGE BLOCK OF TILE TOGETHER

Indian washing clothes, Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Tannery, Medina, UNESCO, Fes, Morocco

Deep Maasai wells at Loibor Serrit where cattle paths are cut deep into the soil to allow livestock nearer to the source of water. Four fit, young men are necessary to bring water to the stock troughs about 30 feet above the water level at the bottom of the hand dug wells.

In the late afternoon, men draw water from a deep well at Naqa. The large leather buckets are raised to the surface on pulleys using donkeys or camels.

China, Hubei Province, Workmen with load of gravel for building road bed in small Yangtze River village of Lian Feng

People work in and around a water basin and use baskets to extract material, the sapphire and gemstone mines at Ratnapura in Sri Lanka

Workers, Chouwara tanners' and dyers' quarter in Fes El Bali, Medina, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Fes, Craftsmen working with leather in a traditional tannery, Northern Morocco, Morocco, Africa, Two workers working with coloured water in barrels under the sun, Africa

Workers at a construction site engaged in manual unskilled work ; Ahmedabad ; Gujarat ; India

A woman brick maker at the brick factory in a village of Sangli, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

GRADING COFFEE BEANS, CAMEROON. SW Province, Mount Kupe - Nyasoso. Coffee harvest at the warehouse. .

Woman in marble factory, india, asia Copyright: xArunxMishra/DinodiaxPhotox

WILD HONEY, CAMEROON. Mount Oku, Bamenda Highlands. Collecting honey from a hive in the forest. . About 2000 people in the villages around Oku have hives in the forest.

Chouwara tannery, Medina Fez el-Bali. Fez, Morocco, Africa

The Mahalaxmi Dhobi Ghat in Mumbai, India.

SAMBHAR, INDIA - NOVEMBER 19, 2012: Women mining salt at lake Sambhar, Rajasthan, India. Sambhar Salt Lake is India's largest inland salt lake

Nepal, Kathmandu, Pashupatinath. An Indian worker cleaning and dyeing cotton.

Cane juice being boiled into sugar after sugar cane harvest, Gujarat state, India, Asia

A man washes gold dust with water on in Sudan.

Rock collectors, Jaflong, Bangladesh

dyers working, Chouwara tannery , Medina Fez el-Bali. Fez , Morocco, Africa.

Female workers on a construction site carry cement in steel bowls, on their heads in Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Road construction workers dig the road to lay an underground drainage pipeline in Bombay now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xAkellaxSrinivas/DinodiaxPhotox

Workers handling barrels on an outdoor construction site in a collaborative effort

agricultural workers winnowing grains, india Copyright: xAshaxAdatia/DinodiaxPhotox

UBTEC NGO in a village near Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso. Cooperative leader Cissé Ousseini using cattle manure to produce biogaz.

Brick Makers, Antsokay, Toliara Province, Madagascar

China, Xinjiang, Kashgar. Logs lean like pick-up sticks in a lumber yard at Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.

Archaic forge, craftsman forging iron nails under a roof over an open fire fanned by bellows, Unguja, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa

Stacking tins, Tamil Nadu state, India, Asia

Chouara tannery, Fez, morocco, africa.

India, Rajasthan. In the countryside, life continues as it has for centuries with a cattle-powered water pump providing the brute force for a farmer to irrigate of his fields and crops.

Mahalakshmi Dhobi Ghat, a large laundry district, Mumbai, India, Asia

Bricklayers working on the construction of a house, Sinchaj, San Bartolomé Jocotenango, municipality of the department of Quiché, Guatemala, Central America.

A worker is reusing scrap metal in Bamako, the capital and largest city of Mali.

Two men engaged in labor, possibly panning for minerals in a rocky stream.

Famous tannery in the medina of Fes, where leather is being processed for generations, Morocco, Africa

Kashgar, China - 07 September 2025: View of bakers meticulously arranging dough inside a tandoor oven, their hands moving with practiced precision amidst the heat and tradition.

Chouwara tanning and dyeing district, Fez El Bali, Medina, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Fez, Morocco

Potters making pottery, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India Copyright: xMohammedxSharif/DinodiaxPhotox

Earthen bricks making worker moulding Tamil Nadu India NO MR Copyright: xPxKarunakaran/DinodiaxPhotox

An artisan working on brass lamp at Nachiyar Koil near Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia

Dani Mann tapping stones, Baliem Valley, West Papua, Indonesia, Asia

Workers sorting out pottery after the burning process, Kathmandu Valley, Thimi, Kathmandu District, Bagmati Zone, Nepal, Asia

A woman on the oil pressing mill regulating flow of mustard seeds Rajasthan India Copyright: xRajeshxVora/DinodiaxPhotox

A woman using stone grinding wheel to split mustard seed before putting in the oil pressing mill Rajasthan India Copyright: xRajeshxVora/DinodiaxPhotox

Vats for tanning and dyeing animal hides and skins, Chouwara traditional leather tannery in Old Fez, Fez, Morocco, North Africa, Africa

Women work in construction project in countryside near Udaipur, Rajastan, India

Woman sifting grain, Vaishali, Bihar state, India, Asia

Fez, Morocco. Chouara Tannery, man preparing the leather

Sierra Leone, Kambia, Young Women Using Hand Water Pump.

Women working in a cashew nut factory on the eve of International Women's Day on the outskirts of Agartala. International Women's Day is globally celebrated annually on March 8 to commemorate the cultural, political and socio economic achievements of women. Tripura, India.

Man working with leather hides in tannery in fez, Morocco

Children sieving and washing small gems from mine waste, Mogok ruby mines, near Mandalay, Myanmar Burma, Asia

Workers, tanners and dyers in the Chouwara quarter Fez El Bali or Medina, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Fez, Morocco, Africa

BRAZIL GOLD MINERS IN THE RAIN FOREST AMAZON

West Africa, Africa, Togo, Tamberma Region. Batammariba man working on traditional Takienta mud fortified dwelling.

Drying cow dung, a valuable fuel in all India, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, Asia

dyers working, Chouwara tannery , Medina Fez el-Bali. Fez , Morocco, Africa.

In the absence of river sand, Coarse building sand is mined from a cliff just outside Kisoro town, Uganda, Africa

Worker carrying jute bag containing wheat to be emptied while other worker directing him at Harsud Mandi Bhopal Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

WORK, INDIA. Andhra Pradesh, Rishi Valley. Women preparing trays for silk worms. .

People doing construction work, Ladakh, India

Construction workers resting on a building site, Tejgaon Slum Area, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Villager making palm oil in Dokoue, Benin

Workers, Chouwara tanners' and dyers' quarter in Fes El Bali, Medina, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Fes, Craftsmen working on leather in a traditional tannery, Northern Morocco, Morocco, Workers in a leather tannery, surrounded by large barrels filled with water, Fes, Northern Morocco, Morocco, Africa

Jowar grains being cleaned at Ralegan Siddhi near Pune ; Maharashtra ; India

Small fish are dried on simple grates on the beach of Mui Ne, MÅ i Ní , a woman with conical hat sorts them out. Mui Ne Binh Thuan Province Vietnam FB_2024_4431

Hemayetpur, Bangladesh - 04 August 2021: View of a tannery worker amidst stacks of raw hides, the air thick with moisture and the ground slick with runoff.

Workers making firecrackers at a workshop for upcoming Diwali or Dipawali festival, on October 25, 2021 in Barpeta, Assam, India. Traditional firework industry of Barpeta had been worst hit for ban on bursting firecrackers due to COVID-19 pandemic, this year they are hoping for good business. Diwali is a festival of lights celebrated every year in India.

Men making halwa at Kozhikode; Calicut, Kerala, India, Asia

Potter working, T Neduncherry, Tamil Nadu, India

Labourers, Kathmandu, Nepal, Asia

Mali, Songho Village, Man Getting Water Out Of Well To Water His Animals

Kolkata, India - 08 July 2015: View of molten metal cascading into molds under the watchful eyes of laborers in a dimly lit foundry, a dance of fire and shadow.

Worker living in bonded labour in a brickyard, most of the workers belong to the Christian minority in Pakistan and are particularly affected by discrimination and persecution, Christian settlement of Youhanabad II, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, Asia

A LABOURER PASSING BLOCK OF TILE TO ANOTHER LABOURER

Women are working in turmeric Haldi factory in Sangli Market, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Man loading bricks.

Men work at a limestone quarry, near Matanzas, Cuba.

England, Lincolnshire, Grimbsy, national Fishing Heritage Centre museum, exhibit, sailors with catch,

MOROCCO, Fes: Fes El, Bali (Old Fes), Traditional Tanneries

Tools made from recycled metal, Bamako, Mali

A man making eco-friendly bamboo strips basket, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

In the absence of river sand, coarse building sand is mined from a cliff just outside Kisoro town, Uganda, Africa

Tradesman, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa

Drying the cassava in the African village of Datcha, Togo, West Africa, Africa

A LABOURER PASSING BLOCK OF TILE TO ANOTHER LABOURER

View of a worker shoveling dust in a brick kiln with a three-wheeled vehicle, creating a hazy atmosphere, Xiapu, Fujian, China.

A man stands in a mud pit and holds a loaded basket, the sapphire and gemstone mines at Ratnapura in Sri Lanka

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