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Wage workers
Duong Thi BeSau ("Baby Six," right), 23, Duong Thi BeTam ("Baby Eight," center), 18, Duong Thi BeBay ("Baby Seven," second from left), 22 and cousin Pham Quynh Diem Trang, 23, work in foreign-owned factories in the Thu Duc District of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The 4 girls share a single room in a dormitory populated primarily by other factory workers. Factories such as Danu Vina, where Baby Six works, have recently been a site of wage protests from workers demanding higher wages.
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