"I live in one of those old-lady garment-worker socialist buildings which has now gone capitalist," she said from the Lower East Side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eight Day Week] Reference

After many years spent as a garment-worker, she became a teacher in the Manhattan Trade School for Girls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trade Union Woman] Reference

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 gone, and a few weeks later she was no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trade Union Woman] Reference

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 Jewess should become a garment-worker; that every Italian man should work on the roads; that the Lithuanian and Hungarian, no matter what their training or their ability, should be compelled to go into the steel-rolling mills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trade Union Woman] Reference

A sweatshop, let us say as a garment-worker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trade Union Woman] Reference