(1) He began to work as a ragpicker and lived in the railway station.(2) His father still works as a ragpicker , pushing his handcart around the city streets, collecting scraps of discarded cloth that he sells to a contractor.(3) The Tapias are ragpickers who earn a living from a nearby municipal dump.(4) More often, contemporaries described such youths by their street occupation or activity: newsboys, copper pickers, wood-stealers, ragpickers , swill-gatherers, bootblacks.(5) Labourers, ragpickers in the mornings or film poster affixers during the night are the worst hit, not to forget children who are drawn to them and two-wheeler riders.
