needle trades
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of needle trades
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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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
Part i includes the early struggle of the needle trades workers to be born and survive as a union.
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
One of the most informative sections of Tailor's Progress describes in great detail the connections between the needle trades and the underworld.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their critics failed to conceive the remarkably various economic and political histories of the enormous concourse of human beings engaged in the needle trades of New York.
From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Clark, Sue Ainslie
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