Last year, at 57, she was laid off from the jewelry factory where she had worked for 35 years.

One after another, Newark's jewelry factories shut down.

The Imperial Knife building, also a former jewelry factory, has been converted to a mix of residential and office space.

A jewelry factory, for example, is given the blank, no-window look of a bank vault in response to local crime.

"They used to complain about him all the time," said Mrs. Veras, who works in a jewelry factory on 47th Street.

Most of these salesmen work alone, carrying fortunes with them from jewelry factories to boutiques to trade shows.

Both worked in a jewelry factory in Providence.

There were literally hundreds of jewelry factories, not just in Providence, but across the state.

In high school, having a summer job in a jewelry factory was practically a rite of passage.

He received a scant education and at an early age was placed in a jewelry factory in Attleboro, Massachusetts.