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Metal Grinder, Malatya                                                                    2004

(photograph available)

In spite of the growing globalization of economies and the incessant spread of inexpensive goods from Asia, local small-scale manufacturing still survives in eastern Turkey. With an economy of movement, the thin metal worker sharpened the brush hook that he and a worker just beat into final shape on the anvil.

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