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sweatshop::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill |
Examples of sweatshop
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One 17-year-old Afghan named Shamsollah lives and works in a basement sweatshop.
From the nytimes.com
The software industry, he says, has turned the city into a glorified sweatshop.
From the businessweek.com
They are heartbroken when their daughter leaves school for work in a sweatshop.
From the freep.com
Which isn't to demean the millions of teachers who work hard for sweatshop wages.
From the time.com
From sweatshop workers to senior executives, women take home less pay than men.
From the ideas.time.com
The New Paltz, Buffalo and Cortland campuses already have gone sweatshop-free.
From the timesunion.com
But animal rights and sweatshop campaigners are concerned about ethical standards.
From the guardian.co.uk
Sweatshop recorded one million plays within its first three months of release.
From the independent.co.uk
I have fond feelings for American Apparel, the non-sweatshop casual clothing store.
From the time.com
- Factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
- Sweatshop (or sweat factory) refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful.
- A factory or other place of work where pay is low and conditions are poor or even illegal
- (Sweatshops) 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.
- (Sweatshops) a factory or workshop employing workers employed for long hours and under poor conditions
- (sweatshops) A factory where people work in poor conditions for what is often less than a living wage, making a variety of products including clothes, toys, shoes, and other consumer goods. The term comes from the lack of adequate ventilation and implies generally unsafe conditions. ...
- Sweatshops are small, poorly ventilated shops or apartments crammed with workers, often family members, who piece together garments.
- A manufacturing workplace that treats its workers inhumanely, paying low wages, imposing harsh and unsafe working conditions, and demanding levels of performance that are harmful to the workers.
- A sweatshop is a workplace where workers face very poor conditions, including poverty wages, exceedingly long hours, unsafe and unsanitary environments, harassment and discrimination. ...
