Thirty years and fifty jobs: An Indian woman worker’s unnoticed labor.

She made tea strainers, doorknobs, picture frames, toy weapons, prepared savory dishes, shelled almonds, and cut jeans threads. In addition, she made jewelry and beaded school bags. She labored diligently, but her meager pay was only 25 rupees (30 cents; 23 pence) for constructing a thousand toy guns.
The subject of writer Neha Dixit’s latest book, The Many Lives of Syeda X, Syeda moved to Delhi with her family in the mid-1990s following religious unrest in the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh.