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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Initially, many of these factories functioned as little more than exploitative sweatshops in which desperate young women sewed clothes for as little as five cents an hour (roughly $1 in 2025 dollars).
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Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Ramchandani’s directorial debut City of Dreams tells the story of a young boy from Mexico trafficked across the border and sold to a sweatshop in downtown Los Angeles.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
The brand-university licensing relationship was an important lever to pull because of the role student activism plays in battling sweatshops, which is why WRC didn’t contact Outerstuff and non-collegiate buyers during the two factories’ remediation process.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
During the 1990s and 2000s, for example, protests on college campuses over Nike’s use of sweatshop labor forced the company to raise the minimum age for hiring new workers at shoe factories to 18 and allow human rights groups to inspect factory conditions in Asia.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
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Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
Ramchandani’s directorial debut City of Dreams tells the story of a young boy from Mexico trafficked across the border and sold to a sweatshop in downtown Los Angeles.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2024
The brand-university licensing relationship was an important lever to pull because of the role student activism plays in battling sweatshops, which is why WRC didn’t contact Outerstuff and non-collegiate buyers during the two factories’ remediation process.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
During the 1990s and 2000s, for example, protests on college campuses over Nike’s use of sweatshop labor forced the company to raise the minimum age for hiring new workers at shoe factories to 18 and allow human rights groups to inspect factory conditions in Asia.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Sweatshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweatshop. Accessed 20 May. 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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