"Oh, no, that's mine," says Elijah, and the worker picks a plastic bag and hands it over with a smile.

On Thursday, for instance, his workers picked 23 bags of corn; during a normal summer with rain, that figure is up to 125 bags a day.

Migrant Burkinabe workers pick most of Ivory Coast's fruit.

Coalition members say that the system encourages workers to pick more but that at the end of the day it pays less than the piece rate.

The homeless workers picked and ate the vegetables in the landscape, as did other homeless people occupying the tunnels.

Having enough workers to pick crops was the main goal of the legalization program for farm laborers.

And once again, the workers picked Mr. Kerry to win.

Currently, almost all workers can pick the doctors who will diagnose and treat their injuries.

Electrical lighting had to be assembled so workers could pick their way through the burned and twisted wreckage, strewn with the bodies of the victims.

An average worker picks four to six trays an hour.