From the archive record
These daily wage labourers turn up in large numbers at the labour market at Gujjar Chowk in New Delhi. They are hoping to get hired for the day, for manual labour or construction work with daily wages in the Rs. 40 to 750 per day range (US$5 to 10 per day). They band up with labour group heads who carry placards or sticks, to show their allegiance to a particular labour contractor who then gets hired with his group of men. Labour market morning gathering on road at Gujjar Chowk in Fatehpur Beri : These men need paid work! This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest HD and 4K collection from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion and Full HD.