| Kneepants-at 45 Cents a Dozen, In How the
Other Half Lives (1890), Jacob Riis described the awful conditions that
these adults and children faced as they sewed knickerbockers at the sewing
machines. Their faces, hands, and arms were black with the color of cloth,
and the floor was piled with the scraps of material that reflected the immense
amount of work they had already done in the dank and cramped apartment for
meager wages. Source: Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890). |
