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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
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Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0331.JPG
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100309-Jharia-Coal-0235.JPG
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
    Suzanne20100309-Jharia-Coal-0145.JPG
  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100309-Jharia-Coal-0084.JPG
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0648.jpg
  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100309-Jharia-Coal-0132.JPG
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0606.JPG
  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0597.JPG
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0583.JPG
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0325.JPG
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
    Suzanne20100309-Jharia-Coal-0315.JPG
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0477.jpg
  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0404.jpg
  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0608.JPG
  • After transporting coal by foot from dawn to dusk, the young miners spend 4 hours of their evenings burning coal piles, to prepare the coal for sale the next day, on the fringes of the coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. The coal-pickers live in a small coal-picker's hamlet a distance away from a higher-caste hamlet where the children go to school and do not mingle with the lower-caste coal-pickers. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • A miner returns to the coal-picker's hamlet on the perimeters of the open-pit coalmines after a long day of work underground in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. In the coal-picker's hamlet, every member of the families living there work as coalminers. While the women and children work in the open-pit mines, the boys and men work underground. On 6 September 2006, 54 miners died in a major underground blast at the Bhatdih colliery in the Jharia coalmines. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100312-Jharia-Coal-1547.jpg
  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • A young teenaged miner carries heavy solid coal rocks on her head while walking barefoot for kilometers, across sharp stones and hot coals in the open-pit coalmines of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. She, like many other girls, has been working since childhood in the mines and has never been to school. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0335.JPG
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
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  • Child Labour in India's Coal Mines:<br />
<br />
Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0889.jpg
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
    Suzanne20100310-Jharia-Coal-0510.jpg
  • Families of coal miners live above fire in Jharia, a small town near Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. Men, women and young children live on the perimeters of the government coal mines, stealing coal pieces to sell to the coal markets at a small profit. Efforts have been made by the government to relocate these squatter villages to nearby towns but these families would rather live above the burning mines, risking regular ground cave-ins and death by accidental falling into the holes of fire. Photo by Suzanne Lee
    Suzanne20100309-Jharia-Coal-0058.jpg
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