Her husband makes boxes in a cardboard factory on Long Island.
He now makes boxes at a nearby warehouse, earning $10 an hour.
They don't make useful boxes like that any more.
"Only one person ever made boxes like this, and it took him a year to do each one."
But another woman, who got a job in a factory making boxes, was fired when she had to stay home with her sick 5-year-old.
It was (and to some extent still is) used to make boxes.
It was used to dry pills and make boxes, and as office space.
This turned out to be a group of people making boxes as quickly as they could.
Some people believe that to make a good building for art, you have to make white boxes.
Two free white men and the Indian were given jobs making boxes.