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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Determined to rise above the sweatshop squalor of New York's Lower East Side, the immigrants went on to create the most productive and politically free Jewish community of all time.
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Also, Mother Jones' Noah Lanard reports that Trump's nominee to oversee worker protections in the Department of Labor previously promoted sweatshops in the Northern Mariana Islands.
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The shuttering of sweatshops would be a boost to local budgets since the children of those who are illegally employed are educated at taxpayer expense, while the employer is let off the hook.
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While his father was largely absent, his mother — a rabble-rousing union activist who seemed like a Category 5 storm to a young Sigal — raised her son while on the move, dragging him to union rallies, sweatshop strikes and noisy streets protests.
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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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First Known Use of sweatshop
1884
SWEATSHOP Defined for English Language Learners
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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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