At a brick plant near Hurhua, India, women and men work from sunrise to sundown carrying bricks on their heads and across their shoulders. They carry the bricks from the brick furnace to a loading area 100 meters away. There they stack each brick in long, neat piles. The women carry 10 bricks at a time on their heads. The men carry 20 at a time tied to a stick across their shoulders. Everyone works in nearly complete silence. After each load is carried and stacked, as each worker returns to the brick furnace for another load, they walk past the foreman sitting in a plastic chair. Without words or eye contact, the foreman puts a 10 rupee coin - a little more than 10 cents - in the woman’s hand (20 rupees for the men). Then she walks on to the furnace to carry another load.