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There are millions of people around the world engaged in manual labor. The toil is so commonplace that we often overlook just how fascinating these daily routines look in motion. Browse this gallery and take a look at these thought-provoking images of manual laborers at work around the world.

▲Workers pick tea leaves at a plantation in Nandi Hills, in Kenya's highlands region west of the capital Nairobi.
▲A woman works at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Yangon. 
▲A worker carries a fresh Parmesan wheel off a storehouse shelf at a dairy cooperative in Modena. 
▲A Palestinian pottery maker works in his pottery factory in downtown Gaza City.
▲Prospectors pan for gold at a mine set in a cocoa farm near the town of Bouafle. 
▲Hauling wheat across a field in Bhaktapur. 
▲A Vietnamese worker puts freshly cut chopsticks into a 20 kg (44 lb) bundle at a small roadside chopstick factory in the country's rural Central Highlands.
▲A woman carries dried clay to be used in floral vases on a platform as she crosses railway tracks at Mahishadal village, south of the Indian city of Kolkata.
▲A worker clutches canes of sugar during harvest time in Sidoarjo, in Indonesia's East Java province.
▲An elderly laborer loads sacks at Port Sudan, in the country's Red Sea State.
▲Working on the production line at the Taiwan Fuji Latex Condoms Discovery Center in New Taipei City.
▲Green keepers work to move pools of water on the eighteenth fairway at Castle Stuart golf course near Inverness.
▲A worker collects palm oil fruit inside a palm oil factory in Sepang, near Kuala Lumpur. 
▲Prospectors work at an open pit at the Ndassima gold mine near Djoubissi, north of Bambari.
▲An employee sews a doll's hair to its head inside a Buenos Aires toy factory. 
▲A group of men pull a pontoon to construct a temporary bridge for the Magh Mela festival on the river Ganges in Allahabad. 
▲A Muslim boy carries a basket of corn at Mathwar village, 36 km (22 miles) northwest of Jammu. 
▲Workers sew prayer caps, which are high in demand during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a factory in old Dhaka. 
▲A migrant worker gathers rose petals on a rose field near the village of Pevtsite. 
▲A laborer sits alone inside the manufacturing unit of iron parts at a factory on the outskirts of Kolkata. 
▲A wrecking crew dismantles parts of the decommissioned Indian Navy Ship INS Vikrant at a ship-breaking yard in Mumbai.
▲A worker checks on the production of copper rods at Truong Phu cable factory in Vietnam's northern Hai Duong province, outside Hanoi. 
▲A man uses wooden rafts to transport pieces of salt rocks after extracting them from the bed of Lake Katwe, 497 km (309 miles) west of Uganda's capital Kampala.
▲A worker pulls a cart loaded with watermelons towards a wholesale supplier in São Paulo. 
▲Miners pose for a photograph at the coal face inside a mine in Choa Saidanshah, Punjab province.
▲Garbage pickers carry bags while looking for recyclable materials at a rubbish dump in the outskirts of Baghdad. 
▲An artisanal gold miner tosses a bucket of muddy water to clear the way for work on a small-scale gold mine in Kalana. 
▲Grape pickers harvest fruit from the vines at a vineyard in Mailly-Champagne. 
▲A Nepalese porter carrying a pile of mats walks along the streets of Kathmandu. 
▲Suited employees process laptop accessories at a factory in Dazu, Chongqing municipality.
▲A worker carries salt before loading it onto a supply truck at a salt pan on the outskirts of the southern Indian city of Chennai.
▲A workman moves a barrel in front of a stow of casks at the Speyside Cooperage in Craigellachie in Speyside.
▲Maintaining a balancing act, a laborer carries iron hand pumps through an alley at a wholesale market in Kolkata. 
▲An employee loads firecrackers into a container at a factory in Kimbulapitiya. 
▲Laborers work on an incomplete fishing ship during its construction in the port city of Manta.
▲Laborers balance precariously on iron poles while building a stage for an event in Colombo. 
▲A man carries strands of vermicelli, a specialty eaten during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, to dry at a factory in Lahore. 
▲A worker sorts baobab fruit at the Bioessence factory, a cosmetic and nutrition company using baobab and shea products, in Dakar. 
▲A boy makes bricks at a brick-making factory in La Paz Centro town, about 62 km (39 miles) west of Managua. 
▲An employee works at a garment factory in Quanzhou county, located in the Guangxi Ethnic Zhuang autonomous region. 
▲A painter works on the roof of a building under renovation in Lagos' Surulere district. 
▲A sulfur miner risks life and limb working on the Kawah Ijen volcanic crater in East Java. 
▲Nepali and Indian laborers haul dirt while working on a road widening project in Chuzom, Bhutan.
▲A worker performs stitch-processing at a garment factory in Bandung, West Java province.
▲Laborers work in unison at the construction site of a commercial complex in New Delhi. 
▲An employee affixes a band on a cigar at the El Titan de Bronze cigar factory and store in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, Florida. 
▲Female employees work on the production line of a wine bottle cap factory in Ganyu county, Jiangsu province. 
▲Laborers work at a project site owned by Thai energy giant PTT in the Map Ta Phut industrial estate in Rayong province.
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A worker climbs up beams at a condominium under construction in Boca Chica, 32 km (20 miles) from Santo Domingo.

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There are millions of people around the world engaged in manual labor. The toil is so commonplace that we often overlook just how fascinating these daily routines look in motion. Browse this gallery and take a look at these thought-provoking images of manual laborers at work around the world.

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