Manufacture
Over 3 million Indians are employed in the manufacture of beedies, a cottage industry that is typically done by women in their homes.
Workers roll an average of 500–1000 beedies per day, handling 225–450 grams of tobacco flake,. Studies have shown that cotinine levels in the bodily fluids of beedi workers are elevated even among those who do not use tobacco.
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Famous quotes containing the word manufacture:
“The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this—that we manufacture everything there except men.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“Yes, that’s what I needed. Living flesh from humans for my experiments. What difference did it make if a few people had to die? Their flesh taught me how to manufacture arms, legs, faces that are human. I’ll make a crippled world whole again.”
—Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Wells (Preston Foster)
“The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.”
—William Bolitho (1890–1930)