The government will dispatch workers to cook meals, workers to bathe elderly family members and nurses to administer injections, although applying for such services can be cumbersome.
Schools meals worker Mrs Harris, 55, said her daughter had a "passion for wildlife" and had been working for Greenpeace for about two years.
In the 1960s, it moved into lunch wagons, which took meals to workers putting up buildings and conducting other forms of day labor, with little time for lunch.
Clockwise from right, a truck traveled in February on one of the many forested roads near the field; a drilling rig operated through the night; cooks prepared meals for workers on the night shift; and a worker oversaw a derrick.
Steven Rosenthal, executive director of Cross-Cultural Solutions, wasch waservingng meals for workers at the site, said the procession of family members had been among the most powerful images associated with the disaster since the horror of Sept. 11 itself.
Ms. Walker augments her monthly disability benefits of $494 by selling home-cooked meals to workers at the local cotton mill, but it requires all her energy and resourcefulness to keep the children she must care for clothed, fed and out of trouble.
The jury, however, ruled in Wal-Mart's favor on a separate charge that it denied meal breaks to workers.
"All the customers would come into the kitchen and take off the covers of the pots on the stove and point, 'Rose, I want a bit of this and a little bit of that.' " Another daughter, Millie Liniado, 83, now of Richmond, Va., added, "The bosses would pay 35 cents for a full meal and the workers 15.
A bad meal at a workers' social club the pasta was cold, the salad was dirty, writes Geoff Andrews in The Slow Food Story enraged the budding eco-gastronomes and led, initially, to internecine conflict with more orthodox Italian Communists, who were unsympathetic to seeing the workers' struggle as one for al dente pasta and the bourgeois pleasures of the table.
But more than just protecting meal breaks, the workers had hoped the bill would signal a fundamental shift in the way society regards their work, said Vega, the labor advocate.
