Usage examples (5)

• "I live in one of those old-lady garment-worker socialist buildings which has now gone capitalist," she said from the Lower East Side.
• After many years spent as a garment-worker, she became a teacher in the Manhattan Trade School for Girls.
• Her youth had slipped away, and her strength had been sapped by weary years as an ill-paid garment-worker, so that exposure to cold and wet found her power of resistance...
• No one can suppose that every Greek boy desires to become a shoeblack, or that every Scandinavian girl is fitted for domestic service and for nothing else; that every Slavic...