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sweatshop
[ swet-shop ]
noun
- a shop, small factory, or other workplace employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
sweatshop
/ ˈɛˌʃɒ /
noun
- a workshop where employees work long hours under bad conditions for low wages
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.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sweatshop1
Example Sentences
Franklin Roosevelt aptly referred to it as “this ancient atrocity” in 1933, when he signed a textile industry code that outlawed the employment of children younger than 16 in sweatshops.
“Yuletide Factory,” a circus show at the New Victory Theater, splits the difference, locating its cheer inside a sweatshop churning out seasonal doodads.
They lived for a while in Harlem while his mother worked in a sweatshop and got by with the help of food stamps.
In Hong Kong, Mr Lai worked in a garment sweatshop and taught himself English.
Rainmaker Hall is the central meeting space, created inside an old hangar that was once a sweatshop with high, arching beams.
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