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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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.
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
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).
— 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
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
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).
— 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
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“Sweatshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweatshop. Accessed 15 Jun. 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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