Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemstitchers
Literary usage of Hemstitchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wages and Regularity of Employment in the Dress and Waist Industry of New by Nahum Isaac Stone (1915)
"Only a few shops, comparatively, employ hemstitchers. In most shops, there is
insufficient work to keep a hemstitching machine busy all the time, ..."
2. Textiles: A Handbook for the Student and the Consumer by Mary Schenck Woolman, Ellen Beers Mcgowan (1920)
"She distributes to the hemstitchers, the Corneli machine workers, or the trimmers
the parts requiring their skill, and the waist is later put together by ..."
3. One of Them: Chapters from a Passionate Autobiography by Elizabeth Hasanovitz (1918)
"Sometimes there were styles of which parts had to be sent to the hemstitchers
outside. (My boss did not keep any hemstitching machines. ..."
4. The New Unionism in the Clothing Industry by Jacob M. Budish, George Henry Soule (1920)
"... finishers, tuckers, hemstitchers, and pressers. The introduction of new
machinery bringing with it increased specialization strengthens this tendency. ..."
5. Publication by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.) (1916)
"hemstitchers earn $10 to $14 and a guimpe maker in one shop earned $12. Errand girls
were found at $3 and $6; stock girls at $8, $12, and $13; and shoppers ..."
6. Dressmaking and Millinery by Edna Bryner (1916)
"hemstitchers earn $10 to $14 and a guimpe maker in one shop earns $12. Errand girls
were found at $3 and $6; stock girls at $8, $12, and $13; and shoppers ..."
7. The Girl and the Job by Helen Christene Hoerle, Florence B.. Saltzberg (1919)
"... skirt makers, belt makers, hemstitchers, tuckers, hemmers, binders, pipers,
lace runners, trimmers, buttonhole makers and button setters. ..."
8. Housing Conditions of Employed Women in the Borough of Manhattan: A Study by Katharine Bement Davis, Hester Donaldson Jenkins (1922)
"... Embroiderers and Crocheters 26 Factory Hands 145 Feather and Flower Workers
7 Finishers and hemstitchers 19 Gold Layers 12 Hairdressers and Manicurists ..."
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