Definition of sweatshop
: a shop or factory in which employees work for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions
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There is one valid criticism of Ivanka’s sartorial choices: Her clothing line uses sweatshop labor.
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Once castigated for sweatshops, Foxconn these days is one of Asia's most vocal enthusiasts of replacing humans with robots.
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Brown is at pains to note that the sweatshop manager Frank, played with passion and ferment by Patrick Andrews, is far from a perfect man.
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Their presence at the gathering synonymous with China’s rise as the world’s manufacturing powerhouse illustrates the nation’s shift from sweatshops producing cheap jeans and towels toward branded goods with better design and quality.
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Produced in cooperation with the brand Uniform—which sells stylish basics manufactured in child labor-free, sweatshop-free factories throughout Africa—
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There are scenes in a sweatshop, scenes in the street in the Lower East Side of New York, scenes with Tammany Hall politicians, scenes inside a tenement.
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And, in the nineties, Nike faced a boycott over its reliance on sweatshop labor.
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In May, a single mother and sweatshop worker named Maria Teresa Rivera was released after serving four years of her 40-year sentence.
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First Known Use of sweatshop
1884
SWEATSHOP Defined for English Language Learners
sweatshop
playDefinition of sweatshop for English Language Learners
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: a place where people work long hours for low pay in poor conditions
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