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Describe the working and division of labour in the brickyards of South Gujarat. 

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The Brickyards are owned by upper castes like Parsis and Desais. 

  • Members of the potter caste are also acquiring brickyards as an extension of their traditional business of mud work. 
  • the workers are usually local or migrant Dalits. they are employed by contractors and work in gangs of nine to eleven members. 
  • while the men knead the mud and mould the brick, the little children carry each brick to the place where they are dried. 
  • a gang of women and girls then carry the bricks to the kiln where they are fired by men, and from there again to the trucks where the bricks are loaded. 
  • from the age of six, children are woken during the night to carry the fresh bricks made by their fathers. When they turn nine, they are promoted to carry two bricks. 
  • Thus, the division of labour is based on age and sex. 


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