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All its equipment was spotless and functional, unlike most places, where they have a minimum of working equipment, the infrastructure is crumbling, and unloading is done by "lumpers," independent contractors who work for cash, without benefits or insurance.

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There, it's said that there are two types of biologist: the "lumpers" and the "splitters".

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There had been heroism in the passive struggle of six months before, when the seamen left the boats at the wharves for the sake of others and when the "lumpers" threw their coats over their shoulders and stood by the seamen and when the miners came up from the mines so that no coal should go to help fight comrades they had never seen.

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Six lumpers at the warehouse filed a class-action lawsuit on the heels of the state investigation.

The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse 2011

"By the end of the day, your body hurts so bad," says Dickerson, who was among a small minority of females working as lumpers at the warehouse.

The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse 2011

And, last of all, are the unskilled laborers, the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the ditch-diggers, the men of pick and shovel, the helpers, lumpers, roustabouts.

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But on most days the warehouse teemed with lumpers, many of them wearing different colored t-shirts to signify the different agencies they worked for.

The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse 2011

As one of the relatively few female lumpers, she says she was often fending off crude overtures from male co-workers.

The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse 2011

His pay had risen to $14 an hour -- still not a living wage for the area by some measures, but more than many lumpers will ever see.

The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse 2011

Officials allege most of the lumpers were being paid on a piece rate plan that many of them couldn't understand, in what officials have described as a "concerted effort" to cheat the workers out of their wages.

The New Blue Collar: Temporary Work, Lasting Poverty And The American Warehouse 2011