"I didn't really feel sad," a factory clerk, told Peter Hessler, my predecessor in China, at the time.
One of these is Miles Roby, the son of an itinerant house painter and a factory clerk, whose tragic flaw is that he has never been prodigal enough.
"We wish the market were more for investment instead of speculation," said Zhang Zhuying, a retired factory clerk who spends her days staring at a market-tracking computer screen in the room of a Shanghai brokerage house reserved for people with trading accounts worth at least $60,000.
This is a long way from the dirt-floored home of his grandparents in Újfehértó, Hungary, and from the modest apartment of his parents—a textile factory clerk and a seamstress in Budapest.
The practical uniform of factory hands, clerks, shopkeepers and librarians, it "both symbolized and enabled a wave of women's liberation," Mr. Von Drehle argued, the "perfect repudiation of corsets and bustles and hoops - all the ludicrous contraptions that literally imprisoned women in their own clothes".
They were the factory workers, office clerks and managers who built up General Motors, U.S. Steel, R.C.A. and I.B.M.
The people who lose their jobs will be factory workers, store clerks and other less privileged workers.
These are the nation's office workers, sales clerks, factory personnel, hotel and restaurant workers, technicians, mechanics and the like.
We need factory assemblers, store clerks, child care workers and the telephone operators who field calls to "800" numbers, processing much of the nation's commerce.
Office cleaners, clerks, factory workers, and other blue-collar laborers were drumming, preaching, and falling into a spontaneous spiritual catharsis, unlike anything he had ever seen outside of church.
The predicament of the suddenly servantless middle-class house was a very real one in the 1940s, when the exigencies of war, and changes in female employment generally, took working-class women out of gentry homes and found them shorter hours, better pay and more independence in factory work and clerking.
