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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Over the past three years, America’s information ecosystem has proven easy pickings for anyone with a fistful of VPN connections and a sweatshop of kids playing World of Trollcraft.
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By the 1950s, these warehouses were mostly being used for storage or sweatshops, and the neighborhood, increasingly decrepit, earned the nickname Hell’s Hundred Acres.
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The year is 2002 and former lobbyist Soussan (an earnest Theo James) is searching for something more meaningful than tax shelters, sweatshops and ozone holes.
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According to Business Insider, the factory’s young, predominantly female workers toiled for 56 hours a week making clothing in sweatshop conditions for minuscule wages (their typical take-home pay was $15 per week, according to CBS News).
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In stores the fakes are often mixed in with genuine pieces but sold at a discount, forcing jewelers who painstakingly craft each piece by hand to compete with counterfeits produced in sweatshops.
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Paying attention to the politics of pop culture aligns with a broader interest in ethical consumption — of sweatshop-free T-shirts, of free-range eggs.
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Her mother worked in New York City sweatshops, where her duties included sewing beads on ladies’ purses.
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God bless these child actors talking about feminazis and sweatshops.
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First Known Use of sweatshop
1884
SWEATSHOP Defined for English Language Learners
Definition 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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See words that rhyme with sweatshop Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about sweatshop
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