sweatshop
a shop, small factory, or other workplace employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
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How to use sweatshop in a sentence
She also worked as a child laborer in a sweatshop, putting zippers together.
When I spoke to her last year, she had compared Coupang’s warehouses to the infamous sweatshops in 1970s South Korea.
This company delivers packages faster than Amazon, but workers pay the price | Max S. Kim | June 9, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewFollowing the tragedy, American Apparel CEO Dov Charney spoke out against overseas, sweatshop production.
The dreary couch gag depicts a hellish sweatshop dedicated to manufacturing Simpsons merchandise.
‘Blame It on Lisa’? The Most Controversial ‘Simpsons’ Episodes (Video) | Shannon Donnelly | February 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTA man works in a sweatshop, and has only a little time for self-improvement, and will I tell him what books he ought to read?
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton Sinclair
The sweatshop, child-labor, excessive hours for women, were attacked with considerable effect.
Consumers and Wage-Earners | J. Elliot RossAfter a disheartening period of working in the sweatshop he saw an opportunity to start in business for himself.
The Book of Courage | John Thomson FarisSays his father's dead and mother earns seventeen a week in a sweatshop and sends him to school.
By Advice of Counsel | Arthur TrainAs long as women buy the cheap kind made at the sacrifice of human life, this sweatshop system will continue.
Clothing and Health | Helen Kinne
British Dictionary definitions for sweatshop
/ (ˈswɛtˌʃɒp) /
a workshop where employees work long hours under bad conditions for low wages
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for sweatshop
A small factory or shop in which employees are poorly paid and work under adverse conditions. Sweatshops were especially common in the garment industry during the early twentieth century.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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