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Sweatshop   /swˈɛtʃˌɑp/   Listen
Sweatshop

noun
1.
Factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry.





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"Sweatshop" Quotes from Famous Books



... domestic industry and the growth of the factory system have given rise to so many and serious social dangers that laws are now passed forbidding home manufacture on grounds of need to abolish sweatshop conditions, although to many such prohibition seems, and to some may be, the denial of parental moral protection to children and youth in families of the very poor. The training for self-supporting work, which came about so naturally ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer


Words linked to "Sweatshop" :   factory, manufactory, mill, manufacturing plant


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