Cast in Mud: Child Laborers
of Cairo

COLIN FINLAY / SABA

Finlay: This boy's job is to cut pieces of clay and get it ready for the spinner who is throwing bowls for hookah pipes. You can see how all the clay has hardened on the boy's body and actually changed the color of his skin to the color of the pale clay. He is wiping the sweat from his brow because it is late summer and quite warm.


Child labor exists outside of developing countries. More than 11,000 children labor illegally in the U.S., and up to 26 percent of 11-year-olds in the United Kingdom work.

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