Photos and drawings from Small Change: Bonded Child Labor in India's Silk Industry

Ten-year-old girl's drawing of children standing over basins of boiling water, "cooking" cocoons to dissolve the protein that holds them together. Children who cook cocoons must dip their hands into the boiling water to palpate the cocoons to determine whether the fibers have loosened enough to be unwound.

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