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Bengali men ferrying loads of mud in a “food for work” project to dig a canal for monsoon flood drainage. Even for moving the vast volumes of earth required, human labor in Bangladesh is much cheaper than mechanical power. For a day’s work these men will earn just enough grain to feed their families, and they fight for any open position. Bangladesh, 1977

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© Gordon Wiltsie
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Bengali men ferrying loads of mud in a “food for work” project to dig a canal for monsoon flood drainage. Even for moving the vast volumes of earth required, human labor in Bangladesh is much cheaper than mechanical power. For a day’s work these men will earn just enough grain to feed their families, and they fight for any open position. Bangladesh, 1977