needle trades

American  

plural noun

1. the occupations and organizations involved in the manufacture of clothing.

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Etymology

Origin of needle trades

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Part i includes the early struggle of the needle trades workers to be born and survive as a union.

From Time Magazine Archive

And between Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky there is no lost love, although at the C. I. 0. convention last October the two leaders of the needle trades made a brave effort to demonstrate harmony.

From Time Magazine Archive

Supreme Court Justice, who in his early days was a kind of compromising needle trades Henry Clay.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, Mr. Dubinsky, who has always played second fiddle to Mr. Hillman in the needle trades, though his union is bigger, is now in a jurisdictional war with Mr. Hillman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Likewise, the provision of rest periods as in telephone-operating and the needle trades, has in nearly every case increased the amount and quality of the work performed.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin