Bonded Labor
Brick laborers are paid in pairs. Two pair of hands working together can produce 2000 bricks in a 12 hour work day. 1000 bricks are worth 150 rupees. Workers live and mold bricks in the same complex for six days a week and on Saturdays go to town to buy rice for the following week. Few manufacturing sites provide school for the laborer’s children, and if there is no school, children work right along side their parents.