Literary usage of Buttonholers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1897)
"Women employed as fitters, machinists, buttonholers and table-hands. Uppers then
transferred to the maker, who works either at home or in an associated ..."
2. The Economy of High Wages: An Inquiry Into the Cause of High Wages and Their by Jacob Schoenhof, Thomas Francis Bayard (1892)
"The " sweater " pays his hands by the day, except the buttonholers, ...
The buttonholers furnish their own silk and cord, while the " sweater" furnishes the ..."
3. (Alien Immigration): Reports on the Volume and Effects of Recent Immigration by Great Britain Board of Trade (1894)
"In comparing the earnings of the English women with those of the Jewesses, the
wages of the Jewish buttonholers must bo set off against those of the English ..."
4. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Industrial Relations. Division of Labor Statistics and Law Enforcement, California Bureau of Labor Statistics (1890)
"Of the forty-seven finishers, including turners, stitchers, senna buttonholers.
pasters, stayers, folders, ..."
5. Women's Work and Wages: A Phase of Life in an Industrial City by Edward Cadbury, M. Cécile Matheson, George Shann (1907)
"•IT- ri *uui Sub-divisions. Very few learn more than one branch, or sometimes
than one sub-division of one branch. Buttonholers and machinists often pay a ..."
6. Indiana Historical Society Publications by Indiana Historical Society (1911)
"But the greatest merriment was late in the day when "the last of the Mamalukes"
were running the gauntlet arm in arm with the buttonholers. ..."
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