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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California at dusk with moon. USA
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  • Tobacco - The Clifton Walton family strips dried tobacco from the stalks in their barn in Charlotte, Tennessee. USA.
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  • A woman carrying water in a plastic teapot in a traditional manner walks to the city of Djenne, Mali, on market day.  Published in Material World, page 20. Material World Project.
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  • Tomatoes: Tomato cannery facility, Modesto, California, USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA. The harvester has a scanner that sorts green from red tomatoes. Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Tomato production facility cannery, Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Rice: rice harvest. Richvale, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED. 1980.
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  • Orange harvest: Lindsay, California, USA. Oranges are picked by hand.
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  • Irrigation: portrait of a field worker with [strawberry] field behind. Sprinkler irrigation. He is wet because his job is to adjust the sprinkers while they are running. Kern County, California. USA.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm worker in flower fields grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Aerial of a tractor cultivating rows of flowers in Lompoc, California.
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  • Aerial photograph of orange harvesting by hand. Lindsay, California. San Joaquin Valley.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of cabernet sauvignon that will be made into wine for Opus One winery.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of red varietals that will be made into wines. Harvest can be sweaty, dirty work.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of red varietals that will be made into wines. Johnson Turnbull Wine.
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  • "Noodling" for opals at an opal mine in Coober Pedy, South Australia.
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  • Preparing food for desert museum animals. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, outside Tucson. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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  • Tobacco - cultivating tobacco with a mule near Charlotte, Tennessee. The farmer's broken down tractor is in the foreground. USA.
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  • A husband and wife push their broken down car on Mother's Day in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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  • Sorting freshly picked tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Picking tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Jackie Ray Clem operating a Joy Continuos Reach mining machine at the Stillhouse 2 Coal Mine, in Harlan County, Kentucky. The Joy Continuos Reach cuts an eleven foot wide swath of coal.
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  • Workers make mud bricks near Al-Hawta, near Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen.
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  • Women and girls pound millet grain to make flour for porridge in Djenne, Mali. Talking and singing often accompany this very physical task. Material World Project.
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  • On market day in Kouakourou village, Soumana Natomo buys and sells rice and other grains. After haggling with the female wholesalers, he returns with two sacks of rice to store in the house that he shares with his first wife, Pama Kondo. His second wife, Fatouma Toure, is two years younger than Pama and lives in a small one-bedroom apartment up an alley 250 feet away. Published in Material World, page 17. Mali.
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  • Women and girls pound millet grain to make flour for porridge in Djenne, Mali. Talking and singing often accompany this very physical task. Published in Material World: A Global Family Portrait, page 16.
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  • Most women in Africa are excellent multi-taskers. Here a woman offers peanuts for sale to passersby on a dirt path in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, and uses the time between customers to spin cotton thread. Material World Project.
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  • Women harvest wheat in terraced strips through the hillsides near their home in the village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. Each strip is devoted to a different crop, and dependent on the season: wheat, rice, chilies, or potatoes. The wheat harvest, now in full swing, is assigned to the women. They take two long, dowel-like sticks, pinch a fistful of wheat heads between them, and then pull up, snapping off the heads. For long-term storage, they cut the whole stalk, bind it into sheaves, and store the result in the attic, from where it is threshed little by little, as the family needs it. The family of subsistence farmers lives in a 3-story rammed-earth house in the hillside village of Shingkhey, Bhutan. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project that showed 30 statistically average families in 30 countries with all their possessions.
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  • Tai Leu weaving village and market near Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Aerial photograph of J.R. Simplot cattle feedlot near the J.R. Simplot potato processing plant in Idaho. The cattle are fattened on grain and also on potato waste. J.R. Simplot company is the largest supplier of French fries to McDonald's fast food company. USA
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester at night, near Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Orange harvest: Lindsay, California, USA. Oranges are picked by hand.
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  • Aerial of harvesting lettuce at Harris Farms in San Joaquin Valley, California. Two large trucks pull conveyors with farm workers sitting low to the ground, enabling them to cut the lettuce as workers on the trucks pack it in crates as they move through the fields, harvesting 16 rows at a time. USA.
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  • Irrigation: California Agriculture, Kern County. Sprinkler irrigation. Imperial Valley, California. USA.
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  • Aerial of farm workers culling variant marigold flower plants grown for seed, the shadow of the photographer's plane is lower left: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • .An aerial view of fields of flowers in Lompoc, California.
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  • Flowers: Lompoc, California.
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  • An aerial view of fields of flowers in Lompoc, California.
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  • Harvesting grapes for Opus One winery near Far Niente Winery in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Wine grapes being picked and de-stemmed by a single-row harvesting machine in the Napa Valley, California. USA.
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  • Napa Valley, California. Hand harvesting of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, which will be made into red wine.  Field worker picks leaves out of the grapes for a "clean pick". Johnson Turnbull Winery.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Meat cutters on the disassembly line at the Oscar Mayer Company slaughterhouse in Perry, Iowa. USA.
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  • Women plant rice fields near Menghan, Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • A smiling woman in a pink shirt picking tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • A sky scrapper under construction looms above the rows of dormitories in which Huang Neng shares a room with nine other workers in Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Because the household's second wife, Fatoumata Toure, is still nursing her newest baby, Pama Kondo, the household's first wife, carries all the water from the village well for the family's use. This morning, the water has an immediate use: bathing the children in her family courtyard. In the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Published in Material World, page 19.
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  • A villager makes fried grain cakes called "ngome" to sell at the Sunday market in Kouakourou, Mali. Kouakourou is the home village of the Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses near the banks of the Niger River. Material World Project.
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  • Members of the Natomo family eat their communal dinner of fish and rice. In the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • Members of the Natomo household sit around their communal dinner of fish and rice. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. Material World Project.
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  • The children and adults in the two households of the Natomo family squat in the shady courtyard of the main house and share their communal dinner of fish and smoked rice.   Published in Material World, page 18-19. The Natomo family lives in two mud brick houses in the village of Kouakourou, Mali, on the banks of the Niger River. They are grain traders and own a mango orchard. According to tradition Soumana is allowed to take up to four wives; he has two. Wives Pama and Fatoumata are partners in the family and care for their many children together. Material World Project.
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  • River fish cut up for a festival at the Wat Phanluang Buddhist temple annual celebration across the Nam Khan River from Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • An aerial view of fields of flowers in Lompoc, California.
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  • Redwood logs in the millpond awaiting processing at Scotia Redwood Mill, the largest redwood mill in the world.  The town of Scotia is owned by Pacific Lumber Company and populated entirely by its employees. Humboldt County, California, USA.
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  • A brickmaker crumbles dry weeds onto the mud mixture that will become bricks in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. The village is built of sun-dried mud bricks. Material World Project.
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  • Public works road project in Bhutan. This is a major highway through mountainous Bhutan. The work crews are made up of guest workers from neighboring Nepal and India. From Peter Menzel's Material World Project.
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  • Redwood logs in the millpond awaiting processing at Scotia Redwood Mill, the largest redwood mill in the world. The town of Scotia is owned by Pacific Lumber Company and populated entirely by its employees. Humbolt County, California, USA.
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  • Child workers take a break at the JRB brick factory near Sonargaon, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Unlike the garment industry, where child labor restrictions are more closely monitored, rural agriculture and industry are less regulated and there is little if any oversight or enforcement. When queried, some laborers at a nearby site defended the use of child workers, saying poor families need their children to be breadwinners now if they are to have any kind of future. The heavy clay soils along the river near the market town of Sonargaon are well suited for making bricks. At the JRB brick factory, workers of all ages move raw bricks from long, stacked rows, where they first dry in the sun, to the smoky coal-fired kilns.
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  • Bread bakes inside circular ovens at Akbar Zareh's bakery in the city of Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The son of a baker, Zareh began working full-time at age 10 and regrets that he didn't attend school and learn how to read and write. By working 10 hours a day, every day of the week, he has sent his four children to school so they don't have to toil as hard as he does. The product of his daily labor is something to savor?his fresh, hot loaves are as mouthwatering and tasty as any in the world. After baking in the tandoor clay ovens (at left), most of the rounds of fresh bread are dried and broken into bits.
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  • Here COG,(short for cognitive) is seen using a slinky toy. Cog's designer is Rodney Brooks, head of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Cambridge, Mass. Although some might be discouraged by the disparity between the enormous amount of thought and labor that went into it and the apparently meager results (simulating the intelligence of a six month old baby), Brooks draws a different conclusion. That so much is required to come close to simulating a baby's mind, he believes, only shows the fantastic complexity inherent in the task of producing an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. Robo sapiens page 59
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  • Wafaa Al Haggan, assisted by one of the many foreign guest workers who do virtually all the manual labor in Kuwait, shops at her local co-op supermarket in Kuwait City. Although Kuwait imports 98 percent of its food, much of it from thousands of miles away, the choice and quality of the goods on display in supermarkets in Kuwait easily match those in European or U.S. markets, and the prices are lower. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • An outside view of the Ananta Clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
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  • A busy day at the Ananta apparel factory where Ruma Akhter works as a seamstress.  (Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The factory is located on Elephant Road, downtown Dhaka, Bangladesh.  While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
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  • An outside view of the Ananta apparel factory on Elephant Road, downtown Dhaka, Bangladesh. While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
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  • Ruma Akhter, a seamstress and one of over 6,000 employees at the Ananta Apparels company  in Dhaka, Bangladesh with her typical day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food for a typical day in December was 1800 kcals. She is 20 years of age; 5 feet tall; and 86 pounds. While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Cutting fabric at the Ananta apparel factory where Ruma Akhter works as a seamstress. (Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets) The factory is located on Elephant Road, downtown Dhaka, Bangladesh. While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
    BAN_081215_031_xw.jpg
  • A busy day at the Ananta apparel factory where Ruma Akhter works as a seamstress.(Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets) The factory is located on Elephant Road, downtown Dhaka, Bangladesh. While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
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  • Samuel Tucker, a lobsterman, with his typical day's worth of food in front of his boat at the Great Diamond Island dock in Maine.   (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in March was 3,800 kcals. He is 50 years of age; 6 feet, 1.5 inches tall; and 179 pounds. Sam works the lobster boat by himself, saving on labor, but in the summertime his son Scout comes along. ?He's a blast,? says Sam. ?I take him and some of his friends out; they're all just leaning over the rail in their life preservers looking to see what's in the trap when it comes up. They're pretty good at saying, 'He's got a keeper.'? Sam's state license restricts his traps to the bay, where he averages only one lobster for every two traps. After paying for fuel and bait, there's not much profit. He supplements his income with fish auction commissions, and his family's diet with venison culled from the island's deer population.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Here COG,(short for cognitive) is seen using a slinky toy. Cog's designer is Rodney Brooks, head of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Cambridge, Mass. Although some might be discouraged by the disparity between the enormous amount of thought and labor that went into it and the apparently meager results (simulating the intelligence of a six month old baby), Brooks draws a different conclusion. That so much is required to come close to simulating a baby's mind, he believes, only shows the fantastic complexity inherent in the task of producing an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. Robo sapiens page 59
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  • Here COG,(short for cognitive) is seen using a slinky toy. Cog's designer is Rodney Brooks, head of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, in Cambridge, Mass. Although some might be discouraged by the disparity between the enormous amount of thought and labor that went into it and the apparently meager results (simulating the intelligence of a six month old baby), Brooks draws a different conclusion. That so much is required to come close to simulating a baby's mind, he believes, only shows the fantastic complexity inherent in the task of producing an artificially intelligent humanoid robot. Robo sapiens page 59
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  • Sewing jeans at the Ananta apparel factory where Ruma Akhter works as a seamstress. (Ruma Akhter is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The factory is located on Elephant Road, downtown Dhaka, Bangladesh. While nearly half of Bangladesh's population is employed in agriculture, in recent years the economic engine of Bangladesh has been its garment industry, and the country is now the world's fourth largest clothing exporter, ahead of India and the United States. Dependent on exports and fearing international sanctions, Bangladesh's garment industry has implemented rules outlawing child labor and setting standards for humane working conditions.
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  • A few miles down the coast from Yomitan Village, in the town of Chatan, construction workers building Okinawa's biggest hotel, a 24-story complex, begin their day with compulsory exercises (until recently, a method of instilling esprit de corps that was common throughout corporate Japan). Unlike most other developed nations, Japan does not depend on foreign workers to perform hard physical labor. The overwhelming majority, if not all, of these men are Japanese. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 189). This image is featured alongside the Matsuda family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • Fresh dough, about to be baked in circular ovens, in Akbar Zareh's bakery in the province of Yazd, Iran. (Akbar Zareh is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The son of a baker, Zareh began working full-time at age 10 and regrets that he didn't attend school and learn how to read and write. By working 10 hours a day, every day of the week, he has sent his four children to school so they don't have to toil as hard as he does. The product of his daily labor is something to savor. His fresh, hot loaves are as mouthwatering and tasty as any in the world. After baking in the tandoor clay ovens, most of the rounds of fresh bread are dried and broken into bits.
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  • Jerry and Sigrid Seps who owns Storybook Mountain Vineyards display their wine cave which still shows pick marks left by Chinese laborers over a Century ago. Napa Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Workers rest in the living quarters of a construction company in the fast-growing Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (From the coverage of welder Huang Neng in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Living quarters and food services are on site, and at least 10 workers share one room. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Manual laborer stirring cow manure at a unit producing methane gas from manure. The methane production unit is located on a farm belonging to the National Dairy Development Board at Anand, Gujarat, India. (1986).
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  • Workers enjoy a meal in the cafeteria of a construction company building the Zhrong Rong Jasper Tower in Pudong, Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Welder Huang Neng (top left) and his fellow workers rest in the living quarters of a construction company in the fast-growing Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).  Living quarters and food services are on site, and at least 10 workers share one room. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Workers buy food from a company cafeteria at a construction site in Shanghai, China. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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