"Well, they dropped the price like you said. An’ they was a whole slew a new pickers so goddamn hungry they’d pick for a loaf a bread."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 26. Pa Joad announces that the Hooper Ranch employers have gone back on their word to pay five cents per peach box picked. They have shown their inhumanity by cutting the pay in half. But people are so hungry they will work for a loaf of bread, Pa says.