She viewed her mother, who took jobs as a factory worker, waitress, store clerk, and laundress to support her family, as a saintly figure.
Most of those qualifying for the benefits, part of the Social Security system, never got past high school and held jobs like factory worker, waitress, store clerk, laborer or health care aide.
Factory workers, domestic workers, waitresses by day.
Many of the victims were factory workers, waitresses or students, and there seemed to be certain shared physical characteristics.
"Factory workers, waitresses, people I knew growing up in Chicago, speaking in language you didn't hear in poetry," he said.
Many of the sex workers I interviewed had previously worked as domestic workers, waitresses, hairdressers, or factory workers.
At other times she has portrayed a teacher (in John Sayles's film "Lone Star"), a spy, a marine biologist, a postal worker, a waitress and a bomb- disposal expert.
Ed Donnelly, legislative director of the state A.F.L.-C.I.O., said, "To take the lowest-paid worker, a waitress in a greasy spoon, and convene the best minds in the Capitol to rob her of a quarter, to me is immoral".
They're getting home in the middle of the night or heading for work the next morning, greeting and leaving their wives and girlfriends -- who include a hairdresser, a bookkeeper, a postal worker, a waitress and a day-care center operator -- and their children.
He sells to his co-workers, to waitresses in restaurants, to anyone who will listen to his pitch.
But most are happy to find work on the island as laborers, factory workers, drivers, waitresses or, for a good share of the women, as prostitutes.
