The layoffs didn't surprise Martha Didio, who had been a Hulme seamstress since 1984.
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For two years, Walker worked as a seamstress for James Lesley, a young merchant and abolitionist.
"Sometimes supervisors cheat us over wages, " said Sakina Begum, a seamstress in the Mirpur suburb of Dhaka.
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Eight years ago, he moved from his native Hebei province to Beijing with his seamstress wife and eldest daughter.
His mother saved money to buy the instrument by working as a seamstress.
His mother, a seamstress, worked from the family's one-room flat in Tel Aviv.
He met neighbours who described his family as happy, his father a well-regarded doctor and his mother a talented seamstress.
The seamstress whose feet were tired, the pastor whose voice echoes through the ages -- they weathered some hard winters.
They were ordinary human beings, mostly women, who became extraordinary because of their deeds: a farmer, a seamstress, a journalist, a housewife.
Saira Banu, a seamstress from a factory in Rana Plaza who suffered broken ribs in the collapse, says she would like to quit.
He says she had on hand "a seamstress, a makeup person, a hairdresser and someone to iron her clothes" in order that everything look perfect.
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Mera dropped out of school at age 11 to work as a seamstress, then helped her then-husband make dressing gowns and lingerie in their home.
Nazneen supplements the family's income as a seamstress, working from home.
Her mother had worked as a waitress during the day and a seamstress at night to earn money to bring her daughter to the United States.
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Watching her mother sew beautiful gowns for low profits, Demmellash thought there had to be a way for her to increase what she was making as a seamstress.
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Reshma recently had separated from her husband and was bringing up her 5-year-old son, working as a seamstress in the New Wave Bottoms factory in Rana Plaza, she said.
Nowadays, if Kendall wanted to live as his own father had lived, he was going to have to hire a cleaning lady and a seamstress and a social secretary.
Fiandaca grew up in East Boston, where his mother was a seamstress, and opened his own shop in 1960 after studying at schools including the Massachusetts College of Art.
On December 1, 1955, our Nation was forever transformed when an African-American seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger.
Mobile financial services also allow a talented village seamstress to obtain a microfinance loan, enabling her to purchase another sewing machine, employ other women in her village, and provide for her family instead of relying on aid or depriving her children of basic education.
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Rozina Akter, a 21-year-old seamstress who was working at Phantom Apparels, a factory on the fourth floor of Rana Plaza, at the time of the disaster, says the industry offered her family a salvation of sorts, as they faced starvation in her old village.
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building outside of Bangladesh's capital was panicked, dehydrated and suffering from insomnia as she recovered in a hospital Saturday, but was in generally good condition, according to her doctors.
Ricky Ian Gordon is composing "Intimate Apparel, " with Lynn Nottage adapting her 2003 play about an African-American seamstress in 1905 New York, and composer Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner are working to expand "A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, " their one-act opera based on Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill that opened at Cooperstown's Glimmerglass Opera in August 2011.
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