The 1947 play by Tennessee Williams, named for an actual streetcar that once served the clerks, maids, dockworkers, hard drinkers, downtown matrons and others who lived or worked in or around the city's French Quarter, went on to become a favorite of high school English teachers and a standard in college and community theaters.
A recent study concluded that most tourism jobs in Los Angeles County are low-paying and include waiters, hotel clerks, maids and theme park attendants.
Catalyst reports that the top female-dominated U.S. occupations are as follows: secretaries, childcare workers, receptionists, teacher assistants, registered nurses, accounting clerks, maids, home health aides, personal care aides, and office clerks.
The MGM star Norma Shearer saw her photograph at a ski lodge where her parents were working as desk clerk and maid.
Whether you are an Indian sweatshop workers, a Chilean farmer, a UK call centre clerk, an American hotel maid, a Chinese factory hand, you at totally at the mercy of the 'flexible market' economy.
These tend to feature low wage jobs -- from the shop clerk to the hotel maid.
From the bellmen to the front desk clerks to the maids, everyone is cheerful and pleasantly professional.
His father worked as a bartender, his mother as a maid and stock clerk.
What is fascinating to see is how the blind prisoners are admitted to the quarantine camp in the order in which they made fleeting contact in the preceding narrative: a pharmacy clerk, a cop, a hotel maid, all connected via the fleeting and heedless contact of the modern, uncaring city, and now joined in a chain of terrible significance.
(His father was an itinerant bartender, his mother a hotel maid and a store clerk).
