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.

Africa, West Africa, Mali, Songo Village. Man organizing maize.

Worker standing in a vat of red paint to dye leather in a tannery, tanners and dyers quarter, Fez, Morocco, Africa, Africa

Worker working in cashew nut factory at Devgarh Konkan Maharashtra India Copyright: xSanghamitra/DinodiaxPhotox

Houses of out of wood been made. The slum of Duari Para in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, home to mainly climate migrants from the southern countryside where they have suffered the effects of climate change: rising water levels, soil erosion and salinisation. Bangladesh.

A man carries baskets on a yoke in a brickmaking region under the sun

Sudanese farmers collect water from a deep well close to the archeological site at Naqa.; Naqa, Sudan, Africa.

Child labour, 14-year-old boy working in a brickyard, member of the Christian minority, which is particularly affected by discrimination and persecution in Pakistan, his entire family is working in bonded labour in the brick factory, Christian settlement of Youhanabad II, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, Asia

Potter, Assam, India, Asia

A gold miner works in a shaft using hand tools in Sudan.

Ghana, Industry, Mining, Sieving For Diamonds.

August 12, 2011 - Miner breaking up sulphur deposits at Kawah Ijen volcano, Java, Indonesia.

Man dyeing Indigo blue, Kofar Mata Dye Pits, Kano, Nigeria

Africa, Senegal, Dakar. The Pink Lake of Retba. Salt harvesting along the briny lake shore. Salt sorted in piles by color and grade.

Brick Makers, Antsokay, Toliara Province, Madagascar

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

Workshop where peanuts are transformed into klui klui sticks in central Benin.

Morocco-Fes City-Fes Tannery

Dhaka, Bangladesh - 24 January 2021: View of women hauling a cart laden with bricks through the dusty landscape near a brick kiln, smoke rising in the distance.

Dhaka, Bangladesh - 24 January 2021: View of laborers hauling bricks in a dusty brickyard, their figures silhouetted against the hazy sky and earthy tones of the landscape.

A labourer washing sand to win moonstones, Moonstone Mine, Nindana, Southern Province, Eranawila Region, Sri Lanka, Asia

An artisan making Aranmula kannadi metal mirror at Aranmula, Kerala, South India, India, Asia

Flour mill workers, Ahmedabad, Gujarat state, India, Asia

Lahore, Pakistan - 21 December 2025: View of men gathered at a roadside stall amidst stacks of tires, reflecting the gritty, everyday life of the city.

Woman wearing traditional Vietnamese conical hat making pottery in a factory, Long Son, Phu Tan, An Giang, Vietnam, Asia

Woman weighting grains on weight machine, Carm Daksh, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Stonemasons using traditional manual skills at stone workshop at Humayuns Tomb, in New Delhi, India

Workers living in bonded labour in a brickyard, child labor is rampant, 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 carpenter repairing wooden cart near Madurai, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia

Workers sewing jute bags containing food grains at Harsud Mandi food-grains market in Bhopal Madhya Pradesh India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Tanning vats, animal hides and workers at the Tannerie Al-Shoura tannery, Fes, Fès-Meknès, Morocco

Man cementing floor of cowshed, Rwanda

Workers are busy processing dried fish at the Lama Kazi area of Sylhet. Every year, when the winter season comes, the small species of fish caught in the local river canal, Bilhaor, are bought at wholesale rates, dried, and sold to wholesalers in different parts of the country, with an estimated value of hundreds of crores of Taka. Around 70 businessmen build lofts in certain places to dry goods. 1500 to 2000 people are involved in the work of drying goods. Sylhet, Bangladesh.

Man loading bricks Tori. Benin.

Packed wheat Gunny Bags loaded in Trolly Tractor , Village Mahangwa , District Narsinghpur , Madhya Pradesh , India

Bangladesh, Khulna the 2021-10-26. Daily life in Khulna (Bengali: লনা), the third largest city in Bangladesh and the capital of Khulna division. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.Bangladesh, Khulna le 2021-10-26. Quotidien a Khulna (bengali : লনা), troisieme plus grande ville du Bangladesh et capitale de la division de Khulna. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Traditional tanneries, Fez, Morocco

The tanneries souk at the Medina (old town). Fes el Bali, Fes. Morocco

Stonemason using traditional manual skills at stone workshop at Humayuns Tomb, in New Delhi, India

Boys searching for ruby stones in Mogok mining sites, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Sahajanpur, Bangladesh - 19 December 2021: Aerial view of a person working with clay pots in a factory, Bangladesh.

Workshop where peanuts are transformed into klui klui sticks in central Benin.

India, Orissa, Kotagarh - near, Local man making terracotta pots

Lepe (Huelva), 07/28/1999. Fisherman untangles fishing nets.

Workers 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

Winnowing grain in the streets of Bungamati, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Women worker carrying coal on her head to the brick factory, Sangli, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManoejxPaateel/DinodiaxPhotox

Bogura, Bangladesh - 17 April 2022: View of women meticulously shaping white, circular dough pieces against the contrasting backdrop of coarse jute and weathered metal trays.

Local produces bricks, Uganda, East Africa, Africa

migrant Burmese workers transporting salt to shore north of Chao Samran, Phetchaburi Province, Thailand

Workers on a construction site shipbreaking Bangladesh

Peanut production factory, workers sorting peanuts by size and quality, Tan Chau, Vietnam

Ceramic factory Mosaique Et Poterie De Fes, Mosaique Et Poterie De Fes, Fes, Fès-Meknès, Morocco

OBREROS TRABAJANDO LA OBSIDIANA. Location: TALLER OBSIDIANA. MITLA. CIUDAD DE MEXICO.

Workers at the Kenya United States Liaison Office (KUSLO) warehouse re-bag and weigh food prior to loading it onto the pallets for air delivery missions in support of Joint Task Force Kenya, operation Noble Response. (Duplicate image, see also DM-SD-02-04711 or search 980310-M-5083B-001). Subject Operation/Series: NOBLE RESPONSE Base: Mombasa Country: Kenya (KEN)

Copper shavings washed by hand from toxic industrial slag, earning a living from recycling waste in the slums of Howrah, Hooghly, West Bengal, India, Asia

production of palm oil in Nagero

Women workers are processing wheat in a mill in Narayanganj, Bangladesh. As wheat is the second most important staple food crop after rice in Bangladesh, there is an increasing demand of it. Wheat production in Bangladesh goes through a few basic stages. In pre-production stage, the seeds are selected by the farmers based on their yield and varieties followed by harvesting leading to transportation and storage. Then, the imported wheat is brought in and kept in the warehouses. After that, the wheat is processed in mills in various ways one of which is to filter out the dirt using a large wooden filter. Finally, the finished product is transported to the market for sales. Bangladesh.

Sri Lankan wood carver making wooden statue of asian elephant, The Factory, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, Asia

Nigeria, Kano, Workers Building Pyramids Made From Sacks Of Groundnuts

A donkeys takes dried leather from a tannery in the medina of Fes A donkeys takes dried leather from a tannery in the medina of Fes, Morocco ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/imagoDensx 21543156 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released

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

FUELWOOD, DALOA TOWN, IVORY COAST. .

Myanmar, Taukkyan, Road Construction Workers At Taukkyan Near Yangon.

Child labour, 12-year-old girl and her 14-year-old brother working in a brickyard, members of the Christian minority, which is particularly affected by discrimination and persecution in Pakistan, the entire family is working in bonded labour in the brick factory, Christian settlement of Youhanabad II, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, Asia

A local contractor spreads concrete for a development site May 30, Nangarhar Province Afghanistan. The development is monitored by the Provincial Reconstruction Team, Forward Operating Base Finley-Shields, Nangarhar. The PRT is responsible for development and reconstruction projects in Nangarhar Province. The projects are built by local and contractors and are designed to improve the livelihood of the people living in the area.

Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Oman, Ad Dakhiliyah, Bahla. Man working at a potter's wheel at the Al-Adawi pottery factory in Oman. (Editorial Use Only)

Asia, Middle East, Republic of Yemen, Sana'a. Old town, Bazaar

EROSION,BURKINA FASO, West Africa, Yatenga Province, Kalsaka village. . Every Monday and Tuesday in the dry season stone lines are built to prevent erosion. The lines, like very low dykes, slow down rain running off the land and dam it back uphill leaving it time to soak in and noursh root crops. The stones have to be aligned. exactly along the level contour, by means of a cheap housepipe level. The lines increase crop yields by 50% on average, much more in drier years.

Togo, Atakora region, blacksmith

Worker cutting a skin with a large knife in a tannery, tanners and dyers quarter, Fez, Morocco, Africa

Africa, Morocco, Fes. Man dyeing cloth in pool.

Minjibir, Nigeria - 27 May 2025: View of a weaver working on a traditional loom, threads stretching out in bright colors against the dry, sandy ground of Gidan Gabas village.

Traditional tanneries and dyeworks Fes Morocco

Men making Athangudi kannadi kal, Process of making tile in Athangudi, Chettinad, Tamil Nadu, South India, India, Asia. Cottage Industry Small scale industry, Asia

Tinsmiths in market, Lilongue, Malawi, Africa

Male and female workers are breaking LC stones with a crusher machine in Bholaganj area, known as the 'Stone State' of Sylhet Companyganj Upazila. These workers whose health is at risk, earn 500-600 taka at the end of the day. Around 2000 workers are employed in more than two hundred crusher machines, and stones worth 3-5 crore rupees are broken every day. Sylhet-Bangladesh.

People working in Brickworks, Nepal. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

Bogura, Bangladesh - 27 January 2020: Aerial view of rows of earthen pots drying in the sun, contrasted by a woman in a vibrant red sari.

A MANUAL LABOURER WEARING FACE MASK LIFTING LARGE BLOCK OF TILE

Bullock cart maker, carpenter shaping wheel Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Brick factory financed by a loan from ENCOT microfinance, Uganda, Africa

BRAZIL NUTS, BRAZIL. Belem. Brazil nuts are unloaded from barges that have collected their cargo from agents in the jungle. . Millions of dollars worth of Brazil nuts are exported each year but deforestation is destroying many of the trees.

The Kolay Market in Delhi.

Blacksmiths making farm implements at Ambatovaky, a village of blacksmiths not too distant from the Ranomafana National Park.

A man loads charcoal into a waiting truck in Para, Brazil.

Smith with scrap metal for making musical instruments, Babungo, Cameroon, Africa

Minjibir, Nigeria - 27 May 2025: View of a craftsman weaving vibrant blue threads on a traditional loom, while a bucket with a portrait sits nearby.

Tanning vats, animal hides and workers at the Tannerie Al-Shoura tannery, Fes, Fès-Meknès, Morocco

Hands lifting a homemade mud brick

grain mandi, punjab, india Copyright: xRajeshxSharma/DinodiaxPhotox

VIETNAM - The horticultural village of Sa Dec. Located in southern Vietnam in the Mekong Delta region, Sa Dec is known as the birthplace of writer Marguerite Duras. There is her autobiographical novel The Lover, award Goncourt 1984, in which she delivers the story of her first love in the heart of French Indochina."Garden of Cochin China" is Sa Dec was baptized in the mid-nineteenth century. Bonard, then French governor of Cochin China, saw a land nestled between two main arms of the Mekong and a favorable climate for floriculture. He therefore brought seeds from many species of France.It is six o'clock in the morning when the city comes to life. We start working before the big heat. At sunrise, 300 hectares of chrysanthemums, marigolds, dahlias, hydrangeas, roses, bonsai and others are revealed. At each plot, various smells are interfering with us. We are immersed in the scenery of a film by Hayao Miyazaki.Day after day, trucks and boats queue on the dock to load the more than 12 m

Sea salt raw flakes from wadala salt farms Mumbai Maharashtra India Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Exhibition of cod fish in a museum, National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England

Sea salt raw flakes from wadala salt farms Mumbai Maharashtra India Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

BARAKA (1992), directed by RON FRICKE.

Soy sauce is made in large earthenware pots in a backyard in the small village of Báºßn Yíªn Nhín on the outskirts of Hanoi, two women with conical hats are working. Ban Yen Nhan Hanoi Province Vietnam FB_2024_3480

Workers with bricks on their heads in the brickyard, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Chinese shark fin/sea cucumber dealer with Mozambique buyer

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