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Slaughterman, Sydney, Australia

This Month in Photo of the Day: Images From National Geographic Books

"Wouldn’t be doing anything else," says Rick Seymour, a slaughterman at the government-owned Homebush Abattoir Corporation in Sydney. He started at age 16, washing out the plant after school. Seymour is among the 57 percent of the nation’s work force that holds a union card.

From the upcoming National Geographic book The Image Collection, due fall 2009. Shop for other photography books from National Geographic.