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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 or Desais. 
  • Members of the potter caste are also acquiring brickyards as an extension of their traditional 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 their father. When they turn nine, they are promoted to carry two bricks. 
  • Thus division of labour is based on age and sex.

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