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India - 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.

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

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

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Vietnam - 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Democratic Republic of the Congo - 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.

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

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

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

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Central African Republic - Prospectors work at an open pit at the Ndassima gold mine near Djoubissi, north of Bambari.

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Russia - 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Uganda - 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.

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Nepal - Hauling wheat across a field in Bhaktapur. 

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Brazil - A worker pulls a cart loaded with watermelons towards a wholesale supplier in São Paulo. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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India - 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.

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

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Sri Lanka - An employee loads firecrackers into a container at a factory in Kimbulapitiya. 

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Ecuador - Laborers work on an incomplete fishing ship during its construction in the port city of Manta.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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USA - 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. 

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Iran - 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. 

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China - Female employees work on the production line of a wine bottle cap factory in Ganyu county, Jiangsu province. 

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Thailand - Labourers 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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Dominican Republic -

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

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