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US
/ˈswɛtˌʃɑp/
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[ UK /swˈɛtʃɒp/ ]
[ UK /swˈɛtʃɒp/ ]
NOUN
- factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry
How To Use sweatshop In A Sentence
- Tiny figures huddled in sweatshops, toiling in unspeakable conditions.
- It takes around two or three generations of sweatshops to go from the ancient pattern of peasant subsistence farming, with its characteristic grinding toil for women to where the country is now.
- McDonald, Colin Brunton and others did time at celluloid sweatshop SC Communications.
- For the pittance they're paid, adjunct profs at our colleges might as well be sweatshop workers.
- How many coffee-chain baristas and sweatshop seamstresses assume that voting for lower taxes will bring them security and prosperity?
- Working conditions vary widely from the worst kind of sweatshop to factory complexes with clinics, schools and entertainment.
- Third world workers want to toil in sweatshops, recognizing that it improves their prospects.
- Part of the reason sweatshops exist and attract laborers is that life on the garbage heap is even worse, as is the life of a third world subsistence farmer. Matthew Yglesias » The Limits of “No”
- What the people who work for Bluewater are doing is working in sweatshop conditions hoping for a pat on the back and an extra bottle of water at the end of the day. Why I Won’t Cover Bluewater » Comics Worth Reading
- My fortune cookie says " Someday you'll be making cheap garbage in sweatshops for 80 cents a day to sale at Chinese Wal-Marts.