Sam Johnson passed away the other day. For much of his life, he ran a little sewing machine shop in Raleigh and even invented sewing-machine devices that made sewing easier. We revisit this 2010 ...
According to the Museum of the City of New York, a garment worker in 1905 was expected to sew at a rate twice that of her 1900 counterpart. The factories had scant safety or fire protection, mandated ...