223 Child labour in India
In the nineteenth century objections to child labour started to surface in Europe, but family income long remained a major consideration. Around 2000 this Indian family – parents and two boys, ages six and eight – travelled eight hundred kilometres from Etah (Utar Pradesh) to the factory in Gandhinagar (Gujarat), where they kneaded clay daily from midnight until noon and pressed it into wooden moulds to lay on the ground for the bricks to dry before they are baked in the oven.
Date:
1997
Number:
223 Location
Gandhinagar
India
