▲Labourers work at a project site owned by Thai energy giant PTT in the Map Ta Phut industrial estate in Rayong province.

▲Suited employees process laptop accessories at a factory in Dazu, Chongqing municipality.

▲A workman moves a barrel in front of a stow of casks at the Speyside Cooperage in Craigellachie in Speyside.

▲Workers hang dried fish onto poles at a processing facility on the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province.

▲Workers sew prayer caps, which are high in demand during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at a factory in old Dhaka.

▲Afghan laborers polish metal pots at an aluminium factory in Herat city.

▲A mud-brick maker wipes dirt off his hands while working in Heremakono, a village in the Ségou region of the country.

▲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.

▲A Nepalese porter carrying a pile of mats walks along the streets of Kathmandu.

▲His face covered in dust, a miner takes a short break inside an unregulated coal mine in Sabinas.

▲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.

▲Prospectors work at an open pit at the Ndassima gold mine near Djoubissi, north of Bambari.

▲Prospectors pan for gold at a mine set in a cocoa farm near the town of Bouafle.

▲A Palestinian pottery maker works in his pottery factory in downtown Gaza City.

▲A Muslim boy carries a basket of corn at Mathwar village, 36 km (22 miles) northwest of Jammu.

▲An employee places a newly painted glass Christmas and New Year decoration in a drying rack at the Biryusinka toy factory in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

▲A worker collects palm oil fruit inside a palm oil factory in Sepang, near Kuala Lumpur.

▲Green keepers work to move pools of water on the eighteenth fairway at Castle Stuart golf course near Inverness.

▲Gold miners form a human chain while digging an open pit at the Chudja mine in the Kilomoto concession near the village of Kobu, 100 km (62 miles) from Bunia.

▲Men push a log out of the water near Okobaba sawmill at the edge of the vast Lagos Lagoon.

▲An exhausted laborer takes a break at a coal dump site outside Mazar-i-Sharif.

▲Workers pick tea leaves at a plantation in Nandi Hills, in Kenya's highlands region west of the capital Nairobi.

▲A wrecking crew dismantles parts of the decommissioned Indian Navy Ship INS Vikrant at a ship-breaking yard in Mumbai.

▲A woman works at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Yangon.

▲An employee sews a doll's hair to its head inside a Buenos Aires toy factory.

▲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.

▲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.

▲Miners pose for a photograph at the coal face inside a mine in Choa Saidanshah, Punjab province.

▲Laborers balance precariously on iron poles while building a stage for an event in Colombo.

▲An artisanal gold miner tosses a bucket of muddy water to clear the way for work on a small-scale gold mine in Kalana.

▲A worker clutches canes of sugar during harvest time in Sidoarjo, in Indonesia's East Java province.

▲A hand of a laborer pushes bricks at a traditional brick factory in the Arab Mesad district of Helwan, northeast of Cairo.

▲A laborer sits alone inside the manufacturing unit of iron parts at a factory on the outskirts of Kolkata.

▲Hauling wheat across a field in Bhaktapur.

▲A migrant worker gathers rose petals on a rose field near the village of Pevtsite.

▲Maintaining a balancing act, a laborer carries iron hand pumps through an alley at a wholesale market in Kolkata.

▲A man carries strands of vermicelli, a specialty eaten during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, to dry at a factory in Lahore.

▲A group of men pull a pontoon to construct a temporary bridge for the Magh Mela festival on the river Ganges in Allahabad.

▲Garbage pickers carry bags while looking for recyclable materials at a rubbish dump in the outskirts of Baghdad.

▲An employee works at a garment factory in Quanzhou county, located in the Guangxi Ethnic Zhuang autonomous region.

▲Working on the production line at the Taiwan Fuji Latex Condoms Discovery Center in New Taipei City.

▲Workers fill sacks with onions after sorting them at a wholesale market in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.

▲A worker sorts baobab fruit at the Bioessence factory, a cosmetic and nutrition company using baobab and shea products, in Dakar.

▲A painter works on the roof of a building under renovation in Lagos' Surulere district.

▲A boy makes bricks at a brick-making factory in La Paz Centro town, about 62 km (39 miles) west of Managua.

▲A worker performs stitch-processing at a garment factory in Bandung, West Java province.

▲A worker checks on the production of copper rods at Truong Phu cable factory in Vietnam's northern Hai Duong province, outside Hanoi.

▲Laborers work in unison at the construction site of a commercial complex in New Delhi.

▲A worker lifts a pot to load on a truck at a pottery clearance depot in Lalejan, outside Hamadan, 376 km (234 miles) west of Tehran.

▲An elderly laborer loads sacks at Port Sudan, in the country's Red Sea State.

▲A worker carries a fresh Parmesan wheel off a storehouse shelf at a dairy cooperative in Modena.

▲Grape pickers harvest fruit from the vines at a vineyard in Mailly-Champagne.

▲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.

▲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.

▲Nepali and Indian laborers haul dirt while working on a road widening project in Chuzom, Bhutan.

▲A sulfur miner risks life and limb working on the Kawah Ijen volcanic crater in East Java.

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A worker climbs up beams at a condominium under construction in Boca Chica, 32 km (20 miles) from Santo Domingo.

▲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 like in motion. Browse this gallery and take a look at these thought-provoking images of manual laborers at work around the world.

▲A steel-worker is pictured at a furnace plant in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony.

Hard at work: images of manual labor around the world

Unskilled and semiskilled jobs that nevertheless require strength or aptitude

17/03/19 por StarsInsider

LIFESTYLE Manual labor

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 like in motion. Browse this gallery and take a look at these thought-provoking images of manual laborers at work around the world.