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


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Nine-year-old boy's drawing of himself, with friends, "cooking" silkworm cocoons to dissolve the protein that holds the fibers 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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