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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Similarly, after the sweatshop scandals of the 1990s, the apparel industry developed supply chain standards, third-party audits and codes of conduct that raised the floor for hundreds of millions of workers worldwide.
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Martin Whittaker, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
In Italy, prosecutors have tackled the endemic issue of undocumented workers, pursuing several brands for failing to properly audit their manufacturers, some of whom subcontracted production to sweatshops.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
The arrival of a woman who works in the sweatshop, Jianhu (Poppy Liu), jolts the story into a new direction, and even a new dimension.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
Last summer, Armani was fined $4 million for claiming to be sustainable while outsourcing some of its leather-goods production to sweatshops near Milan.
—Elizabeth Cline, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
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Martin Whittaker, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
In Italy, prosecutors have tackled the endemic issue of undocumented workers, pursuing several brands for failing to properly audit their manufacturers, some of whom subcontracted production to sweatshops.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
The arrival of a woman who works in the sweatshop, Jianhu (Poppy Liu), jolts the story into a new direction, and even a new dimension.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
Last summer, Armani was fined $4 million for claiming to be sustainable while outsourcing some of its leather-goods production to sweatshops near Milan.
—Elizabeth Cline, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
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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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