sweatshop
noun
sweat·shop
ˈswet-ˌshäp 
: a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions
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Tod’s is the latest luxury brand to be scrutinized for allegedly failing to properly audit its suppliers whose subcontractors allegedly engaged in sweatshop schemes and workforce exploitation.
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Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
Conducting business with the State Department was now on the same level as purchasing soft pretzels and sweatshop clothing, and this calmed Daria.
—Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Here are the anti-suicide nets at Foxconn’s Chinese sweatshops, the teeny-tiny Apple logos engraved on the smallest iPhone parts to guard against unauthorized repair.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
The sweatshop videos had earlier circulated on Chinese social media platforms, and were amplified by Chinese and Russian state media.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
Conducting business with the State Department was now on the same level as purchasing soft pretzels and sweatshop clothing, and this calmed Daria.
—Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Here are the anti-suicide nets at Foxconn’s Chinese sweatshops, the teeny-tiny Apple logos engraved on the smallest iPhone parts to guard against unauthorized repair.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
The sweatshop videos had earlier circulated on Chinese social media platforms, and were amplified by Chinese and Russian state media.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Sweatshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweatshop. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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sweatshop
noun
sweat·shop
-ˌshäp
: a shop or factory in which employees work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions
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