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Sweatshop   /swˈɛtʃˌɑp/   Listen
Sweatshop

noun
1.
Factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry.






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"Sweatshop" Quotes from Famous Books



... for Child Labor, Dangerous and Immoral Trades, Protection of Young Girls, Labor in Mines, Hours of Labor in Peculiar Trades, The Constitutional Difficulty, Farms and Domestic Labor, Continental Legislation, Sanitary Restrictions on Female Labor, Sweatshop Laws, The Factory Acts, Employers' Liability, Anti-Truck Legislation, Factory Stores and Dwellings, Benefit Funds and Compulsory Insurance, The Regime of Contract, Compulsory Labor and Peonage, Statutes Against Intimidation, Blacklists, Picketing, ...
— Popular Law-making • Frederic Jesup Stimson

... immediately, sir," said the buyer, apologetically. "They were made in a 'sweatshop,' you see, so it is quite possible they are permeated with unpleasant odors, but I will have them aired before they are ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon

... the susceptible people of the nation commiserated the poor Jews of the New York sweatshops they, for the most part, did not know that the inventors and operators of the "sweatshop" method were themselves Jews. Indeed, while it is the boast of our country that no race or color or creed is persecuted here, but liberty is insured to all, still it is a fact that the only heartless treatment ever accorded the ...
— The Jew and American Ideals • John Spargo



Words linked to "Sweatshop" :   manufacturing plant, mill, manufactory, factory



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