Women workers in the tea industry (Sri Lanka)

In Sri Lanka women continue to pick tea by hand, and the industry generates enormous benefits for the country. Women represent over 60% of the workforce, and work about de la 8 hours a day at high altitude to earn about 5 dollars a month (687 rupees), and they have become part of the industrial process.

They are a clear example of joint generational transmission of poverty and occupation, as the workers are mostly descended from the Indian workers who began working for the British colonists.