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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The result will be an increase in preying on immigrants by the criminal element: robbery, protection scams, sweatshop labor and human trafficking, as the immigrant community withdraws from reliance on no-longer-safe court systems.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2025
Make basic tees cool again by paying his employees (most of whom were immigrants) double the minimum wage and avoiding outsourcing manufacturing to sweatshops.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 3 July 2025
Yet, its dialogue, which ranges from the laughably stereotypical to the downright absurd in the context of a sweatshop, stands out as the most unforgivable affront.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
An entire modern artistic genre — documentary photography — was weaned on the growing social effort to rein in the abusive practice of forcing children to toil in sweatshops and on farms in the wake of the Gilded Age.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2025
Make basic tees cool again by paying his employees (most of whom were immigrants) double the minimum wage and avoiding outsourcing manufacturing to sweatshops.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 3 July 2025
Yet, its dialogue, which ranges from the laughably stereotypical to the downright absurd in the context of a sweatshop, stands out as the most unforgivable affront.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
An entire modern artistic genre — documentary photography — was weaned on the growing social effort to rein in the abusive practice of forcing children to toil in sweatshops and on farms in the wake of the Gilded Age.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
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“Sweatshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweatshop. Accessed 9 Jul. 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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