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In this episode of 'Work', Laura Kunreuther talks with Hosneara Kader, who works for a family literacy program dedicated to Bangladeshi families in and around Hudson. As a Bangladeshi herself, Hosneara understands the struggles of these families and her story of work tells a common story of immigrants, though one particular to this area. Coming to Hudson on the advice of a Bangladeshi agent, like many Bangladeshis in the area, she first worked at Emsig Manufacturing Corporation, one the nation’s largest maker of buttons, which produced around 4 million buttons per day. Her story of work shows us that not all work is paid work. Now a proud owner of a home, Hosneara reflects on how different her life is than what she imagined when she was young. “I never heard you have to be independent,” she says. Now she helps to support her husband in Bangladesh and her two sons who have left home, and imagines that, perhaps, one day, she too will return to her homeland.