Examples of sweatshop in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There was what was essentially a sweatshop in the basement. — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 12 May 2021 The child laborers in the Beggar King’s sweatshop have been making Maladie Barbies that come complete with their own gallows. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 9 May 2021 In a 2018 investigative feature story, Forbes detailed how the tech billionaire was quietly building what amounts to a global technology sweatshop (See story). — Nathan Vardi, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021 Chaney’s drawings from the 1990s El Monte sweatshop case is included in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021 Su, who started her legal career fighting for Thai sweatshop workers in Los Angeles, could put greater emphasis on helping immigrant workers and workers of color. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021 In 1996, the talk-show host Kathy Lee Gifford was caught in a scandal after a human rights organization reported that child sweatshop labor in Honduras was being exploited to manufacture a clothing line in her name. — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020 The boys joined their parents cleaning motel rooms, working at warehouses, recycling cans and tidying up loose threads in a sweatshop before they got signed up for school. — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2020 During a news conference at the jail on Wednesday, the Deputy Sheriff''s Association of Bexar County compared the county jail to a sweatshop and called working conditions inhumane and an embarrassment. — ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2020

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