traditionally, hop pickers were paid by the number of bushels picked
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In Kent, hop pickers are shown harvesting the hops and in their hoppers' huts after work.
The farm cottages were once used to house fruit and hop pickers.
I don't see any hop pickers standing out over the bins picking the hops from the bine in time-honoured fashion.
"I live at the brewery more than I like to admit," said a hops picker who lives right next door.
There were many hop-related occupations, like the hop master who was generally employed to oversee the business, and the hop picker, measurer, and tally man.
The smart hop picker knew the importance of gaining the best information about these specifics.
Hop pickers from the East End of London have been arriving in the Kent hop fields during the last few days, and already they're hard at work.
He believed a hop-picker's union would be doomed to failure, as "about half the pickers are women or gypsies, and are too stupid to see the advantages of one".
When women responded to the call for manufacturing jobs during World War II, the colorful days of the hop picker all but came to a close.
The sociologist took a job as a hop picker and surveyed 27 of her co-workers in a Willamette Valley field during the summer of 1907.