shirtmaking

Wages Boards in certain industries employing great numbers of workpeople, such as tailoring, shirtmaking, and so on.

Constructive Imperialism Viscount Milner

Many of these schools, and some others have also hosiery, shirtmaking, and similar industries, and some, as

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Every man who let out a tenement-house in workmen's dwellings was to be haled before the law and punished if a tailor on his premises did his work at home, if a widow took in shirtmaking to keep her children.

Sir George Tressady — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885

My friend elicited these important facts under the pretence of wishing to employ her himself in the shirtmaking department of his own business.

Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871

A band of women workers were prepared to associate for the mutual benefit of the operatives in the shirtmaking and clothing trades.

An Autobiography Catherine Helen Spence 1867

To such length has the Leave-alone principle carried it, by way of organizing labor, in this affair of shirtmaking.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

Many things have been written about shirtmaking; but here perhaps is the saddest thing of all, not written anywhere till now, that I know of.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

I think Coffin's book on shirtmaking claims that the hem vee should match the bottom vee (not that that means you have to do it that way).

The Stitchery 2009

Whilst shirtmaking can be very gratifying, I find it takes the wind out of you after the second one or so, even when spaced days apart …. personal experience of course.

The Stitchery 2009

County Donegal; his first play, The Factory Girls (1982), which drew on his mother's and aunts 'experiences in shirtmaking factories; and Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (1985), his dramatisation of the lives of a group of Protestant soldiers as they made their inexorable way to the horror of July 1 1916.

Slugger O'Toole 2008