A worker harvests rice in the Sakon Nakhon province of Thailand in the last decade of January 2024. (Photo by Natnattcha Chaturapitamorn/Solent News)

A worker pauses for a sandwich, resting on a girder during the construction of a skycraper. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1930

A worker is immersed in a kaleidoscope of colour while they paint traditional umbrellas in Juwiring, Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia in December 2023. The workers who spend around 8 hours a day, depending on order quantities and customer deadlines are paid around Ј200 a month. They will paint a batch over the period of two to three days until each layer of paint is dry. Extras of the traditional umbrella will be made as many tourists come to buy them. (Photo by Lia Indriani/Solent News & Photo Agency)

Workers sleep on a railway track under repair in New Delhi, India, June 15, 2018. (Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/Reuters)

Workers carry a metal sheet at a dockyard in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 5, 2018. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)

A brick factory workers stack bricks on carts in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 9, 2019. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)

A worker polishes an Oscar statuette at R.S. Owens & Company during a media demonstration February 9, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A Myanmar worker prepares corn for drying in a field during the harvest in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 23 August 2018. (Photo by Hein Htet/EPA/EFE)