work to do in the fields, workers of all ages come from rural parts of Bangladesh, to earn a little money in the brickyard

They often stay for months, living in houses built in the yard, often with their families.   The work is backbreaking and exhausting, to say the least.

One can find clusters of men dealing with different stages of the process. 
One group is busy extracting mud from which the bricks are made, mixing it with water to keep it workable. 
The mud is then transported by wheelbarrows to another group of people, the brick makers. 

This is where the mud is put in wooden molds to give the bricks the desired shape.  The brick makers work extremely fast as they are paid per brick made.

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