Word: underworking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Working as free lances, financially insecure, alternating between overwork and underwork, with most of their "free time" spent waiting anxiously for a phone call to notify them of their next assignment, these private or special nurses are willing to reduce their own salary (in New York from about $7 a day to $5) in order to spread employment, have more actual days' work, have a chance to live like other people and rest after eight hours on duty...
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