working-women

Though low-wage service industry jobs typically last less than a year, the low-wage working-women I met were not unwilling to work.

Sarah Damaske: Women on the Margins of the Labor Market Sarah Damaske 2011

Though low-wage service industry jobs typically last less than a year, the low-wage working-women I met were not unwilling to work.

Sarah Damaske: Women on the Margins of the Labor Market Sarah Damaske 2011

Though low-wage service industry jobs typically last less than a year, the low-wage working-women I met were not unwilling to work.

Sarah Damaske: Women on the Margins of the Labor Market Sarah Damaske 2011

Mrs. Eder, Mrs. Sieff and I as we toured the country were very impressed by the hard work done in rebuilding Palestine by the devoted Halutzot, a new term at that time, for our pioneer working-women.

Rebecca Sieff. 2009

Favourite, Dahlia, Zephine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, perfumed and radiant, still a little like working-women, and not yet entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall in woman.

Les Miserables 2008

She sewed seventeen hours a day; but a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings of working-women to nine sous.

Les Miserables 2008

The Bawlmer term of endearment, Hon, short for Honey, embodies the warmth and affection bestowed upon our neighbors and visitors alike by historic working-women of Baltimore.

BALTIMORE’S HONFEST: REPRESENTING CLASS » Sociological Images 2008

Chuck sounds cute and funny, and Lipstick Jungle is a no-brainer even if working-women dramedys are a tough sell on television these days (how to avoid both cliché and dirtiness in a show like this?)

NBC: 'We've Got the Class, Here Comes the Mass' 2007

Mother and daughter took charge of the family linen, and spent their days so conscientiously upon a labor properly that of working-women, that if Eugenie wished to embroider a collar for her mother she was forced to take the time from sleep, and deceive her father to obtain the necessary light.

Eug�nie Grandet 2007

Once I remember to have observed two working-women with a baby halting by a grave; there was something monumental in the grouping, one upright carrying the child, the other with bowed face crouching by her side.

Memories and Portraits 2005