Oct 18, 2010

People at Work

I love this photo document of workers all over the world, which I found at the Boston Globe. We're all just trying to have an ok life - no matter where we are in the world. Here's a selection! And now, get to work - it's MONDAY!


A worker walks near stacked containers at the Jakarta International Container Terminal January 13, 2010. (REUTERS/Beawiharta




An employee shelves books in the old books collection area at the Municipal Library of Lyon, France on January 15, 2010. The government of France is currently undertaking a 750 million euro ($1 billion) project to digitize its libraries and museums. (REUTERS/Robert Pratta)


Laborers work inside a cashew nut processing factory at Gakulnagar on the outskirts of Agartala, India on January 7, 2010. (REUTERS/Jayanta Dey




Workers clean fish along a busy street in Manila, January 11, 2010, before they put it on an improvised wooden stove for smoking. The vendor sells the smoked fish for 80 pesos ($1.77) a kilogram. (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco)




Workers wait to release balloons prior to the inauguration of the expo boulevard at the World Expo 2010 site in Shanghai, China on January 22, 2010. (PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images)


A worker walks out of a store at a steel market in Shenyang, Liaoning province, January 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Sheng Li